Sam Pickard

Executive summary

Sam is a Business Services Partner with BDO in Brisbane. With 20 years of experience, Sam is passionate about assisting businesses and their families on their business journeys.

Sam specialises in helping clients articulate their business challenges and providing resolutions to achieve their business goals. Sam thinks outside the box to implement unique solutions for clients.

Expertise

• Accounting advice
• Financial accounting and reporting
• Taxation compliance and advice
• Tax planning and structuring
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Asset protection and structuring
• Specialising in sectors: 
  • Natural Resources
  • Private Equity 
  • Manufacturing and Wholesale

Experience

• Key adviser throughout a joint management buyout and private equity entry of an oil and gas services business
• Adviser to a client in the construction industry on an acquisition to improve their supply chain, including advice with respect to potential enterprise value and deal structure
• Led the facilitation of a second-generation transition including business restructuring to allow shareholder entry, management of tax issues and guiding clients through the transition process
• Advised a services industry client on their international expansion into Asian and European markets by assisting in the due diligence process and providing advice in relation to the optimal structure considering tax and commercial implications across multiple jurisdictions.

Qualifications and affiliations

• Bachelor of Commerce
• Chartered Accountant and Member, CA ANZ
• Registered Tax Agent