George Hayes

About

Experience

• KPMG Private Tax Leader, Northern Pacific Real Estate Leader, Senior Lead Tax PartnerCurrent

  KPMG US · San Francisco, California

  Dec 2019 – Present

  • KPMG Private Tax Leader • KPMG Northern Pacific Real Estate Practice Leader • Admitted to the KPMG US partnership in 2019 • Global Lead Partner and Senior Lead Tax Partner overseeing all tax services provided by KPMG member firms to KPMG’s Premier clients.

• Real Estate Tax Director

  PwC · New York, NY United States

  Jul 2016 – Dec 2019

  • Significant experience in both U.S. and international tax compliance, consulting, and M&A services with deep knowledge of tax sensitivities for all investor types including tax-exempts, corporations, individuals, partnerships, QFPFs, and SWFs. • Recognized as a technical resource by the firm and clients for international inbound and outbound transactions, complex partnership, and QFPF and SWF tax issues. • Deep knowledge and understanding of substance and strategies relating to U.S. and international tax laws, rules, regulations, and treaties relevant to the RE and PE and sector including structuring, formation, and maintenance of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITS), Qualified Opportunity Zones (QOZ), and treaty-based tax positions. • Extensive experience managing various tax aspects of the front-to-end life cycle from product development, fundraising, investment structuring, compliance, audit support, restructuring, disposal, and liquidation of large global real estate and private equity funds. • Structure, model, and implement domestic and international real estate deals to achieve tax efficiency and manage tax risks for clients and their investors. • Analysis of the tax consequences of investing in passive foreign investment companies, controlled foreign corporations, controlled foreign partnerships, foreign disregarded entities, domestic partnerships, and domestic corporations. • Regularly advise client's C-Suite Management on global complex tax positions. • Monitor new tax laws and tax reform while determining impact to client's business and advise on any necessary operating or restructuring responses. • Strong solutions-oriented analytical and verbal/ written communication skills, particularly in respect of synthesizing complex technical concepts into plain language for non-tax specialist audiences • Extensive experience providing outsourced tax director services and full tax department oversight for large multinational real estate companies and funds.

Education

• Beedie School of Business at Simon Fraser University — Bachelor of Business Administration (Honors), Accounting (Honors), Management Information Systems, Management & Technology
• Chartered Professional Accountants of Canada (CPA Canada) — CPA In-Depth Tax Course Part I, Part II, and Part III, Tax Law/Taxation

Skills