Infrastructure presentation

Richard Buchanan CTA

"Richard Buchanan CTA, is a partner in the M&A Tax team at Deloitte who specialises in the tax aspects of major infrastructure, real estate, private equity and corporate transactions. In these transactions, Richard leads teams that conduct due diligence, structuring, transaction document drafting and negotiation, liaison with regulatory authorities, model review and post-acquisition integration steps. Richard is also involved in a number of revenue authority engagements, including settlement negotiations, management of audits and risk reviews and private ruling negotiations. Richard first became a partner in 2005 at Deloitte (after beginning his career at Deloitte through university under the Deloitte cadet program). Richard was then approached to join Greenwoods & Herbert Smith Freehills (G&HSF) and was a partner at G&HSF for approx. 10 years until he was approached to join EY in 2016 (at which time Richard was the leader of the Melbourne office of G&HSF). In his time at a law firm, Richard was consistently recognised as one of Australia’s leading tax lawyers in external awards such as Chambers, Asia Pacific 500, Boyle’s and Legal Who’s Who. Richard rejoined Deloitte in December 2023 in the M&A Tax team. Richard is both a chartered accountant and a solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria. Richard is a fellow of the Taxation Institute of Australia and a member of the Law Institute of Victoria. Richard has an honours Commerce/ Law degree from Monash. Richard is a regular presenter at Tax Institute conferences, including the Financial Services Conference, the Victorian Tax Conference and the Infrastructure Conference on multiple occasions." - Current at 16 March 2026

Addison Younan

Addison has over 10 years of corporate tax experience working in both a leading tax advisory firm and as an in-house tax adviser. Addison has recently returned from Hong Kong, where he managed the tax function of NAB Asia which operates in 5 jurisdictions. He has advised on numerous banking and wealth management transactions, including matters relating to superannuation, managed funds, life insurance, capital management, securitisation, debt syndication and infrastructure projects. Addison has advised extensively on a range of infrastructure projects for the NAB Group, especially around the tax issues arising for debt investors. Addison holds a Master of Laws from the University of Sydney. He is an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia and a Chartered Tax Adviser with the Tax Institute. - Current at 28 August 2014