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Makiko Okamoto

Makiko joined Pitcher Partners Melbourne in 2025, playing a pivotal role as Japan Desk Lead in the Corporate Finance team. Makiko focuses in facilitating Japanese investment into Australia. With over 25 years of experience at a leading Japanese bank in Melbourne, Makiko offers deep cultural insight, extensive business networks, collaboration and guide clients through regulatory […]

Dragan Misic

Dragan specialises in providing tax advisory services to private equity and venture capital investors focusing on transactions, fund-raising and compliance. He primarily advises on mergers and acquisitions, fund structuring and fund formation for many of Australia’s private equity and venture capital funds, including advising on Managed Investment Trusts (MITs), Venture Capital Limited Partnerships (VCLPs) and […]

Ronnie Vogt

Ronnie joined Pitcher Partners in 2023 as a Client Director in the Audit Technical Team with over 32 years in the accounting profession, and over 10 years in external audit. Ronnie has extensive experience in the theoretical and practical aspects of audit. By being involved with different teams and external bodies at the local, Asia […]

Chanel Palmer

Chanel joined Pitcher Partners in 2020 as a Manager in the National Tax Group, working her way up to Client Director in 2025. Chanel has over 10 years of experience, and specialises in private wealth taxation, particularly Division 7A, trusts, corporate tax, managed funds and engagement with Australian Tax Office (ATO) reviews and disputes. Chanel […]

Benjamin Scannell

With an impressive 17-year tenure at the firm, Benjamin has expertly advised clients across a broad range of industries. His speciality lies within the property and construction industry, and he has an impressive 15 year track record supporting large property development groups, in particular with respect to large scale broad acre developments and in the […]

Build-to-rent tax concessions

In April 2024, Treasury released for comment exposure draft legislation (see here) seeking to introduce income tax concessions for Build-to-rent property developments to give effect to a Federal Budget announcement made on 9 May 2023. The proposed concessions consist of a capital works deduction rate of 4% per year and a reduced withholding tax rate […]

Ellen Fimmano

Ellen is a Client Director in our Tax Advisory group with over 12 years of experience in providing taxation advisory and compliance services to privately-owned, listed and multinational businesses. Ellen has broad experience in advising businesses on a variety of commercial and taxation matters in relation to structuring, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions, global expansion and […]

Lirize Loots

Lirize is a Client Director in our Tax Advisory division with over 15 years of experience. She has experience working as a transfer pricing specialist, where she worked closely and collaboratively with the client teams across various areas of the business, to help clients proactively manage their transfer pricing risk and reporting obligations. Lirize joined […]

Juliana Kee

Juliana provides tax advisory and compliance services to listed investment companies, large privately owned companies and managed investment trusts (MITs). Her experience extends across a range of industries including financial services, technology, property and mining. Recognising the importance of having a supportive network throughout a career journey, Juliana has been a mentor and source of […]

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