Amanda Pletz, MCom

In the financial services sector, Ms. Pletz has directed numerous projects involving transfer pricing, economic risk modeling, and valuation across a range of industries including private banking and asset management, fintech, private equity, real estate, insurance, trading, and broader banking sectors. In the area of financing, Ms. Pletz is a trusted advisor on capital structure issues, cash pooling, pricing of loans, hybrid instruments, guarantees, captive insurance arrangements, leasing and loans, and other asset valuations.

Ms. Pletz has authored expert opinion reports in relation to tax audits globally and has assisted clients with negotiating advanced pricing agreement (APA) terms with local tax authorities across Europe. In litigation, international arbitration, and disputes, she has been retained in cases involving intercompany guarantees, retrospective banking business and other business valuations, financing arrangements, and trade analyses. She also has experience in disputes and advisory cases involving state aid for tax and non-tax issues.

Ms. Pletz has been appointed to the P.R.I.M.E. Finance Panel of Experts. She has also been recognized as a Global Elite Thought Leader in Corporate Tax by Who’s Who Legal for several years and is ranked in the WWL Corporate Tax–Experts and WWL Experts–Financial Advisory and Valuation–Corporate Tax Experts directories. She regularly speaks on the economics of intercompany financing transactions and transfer pricing issues in the financial services sector.

Prior to joining NERA, Ms. Pletz’s experience included health sector cost-benefit analysis, segmentation modeling for a leading automotive producer, labor market supply and demand studies for local government bodies, and economic analysis relating to the real estate sector. She lectured on economics and banking at the University of Pretoria and on microeconomics at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Ms. Pletz is also a frequent guest speaker at the University of Lausanne and has lectured on the economics of intercompany financing transactions as part of the university’s executive program in transfer pricing.