John Peacock
Head of Indirect Tax and Conveyancing, BSA Ahmed Bin Hezeem & Associates LLP (Dubai, UAE)
+971 551 159 228
Commercial; Corporate and M&A; Real Estate; VAT
B.A (Law Stream), University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa
B.Proc., University of South Africa, University of South Africa, Pretoria, South Africa
Membership - KwaZulu-Natal Law Society
Membership - Dubai Legal Affairs Authority
Admitted Attorney and Conveyancer to the High Court of South Africa
Admitted Wills Draftsman DIFC Wills and Probate Registry
John is the Head of Indirect Tax and Conveyancing at BSA Ahmad Bin Hezeem & Associates LLP (BSA) and has been a qualified Attorney who has been practising for over 25 years. He has been a managing partner in a law practice for 14 years where he was responsible for all conveyancing, taxation and corporate matters.
John is a Director of The VAT Services Group. John has advised and represented numerous tax payers in both tax and VAT disputes across various industries. He also has extensive experience in legal due diligence and expert reports on company governance, in commercial contracts and the general conduct of business in the UAE and the GCC, and regularly acts on behalf of international law firms relating to complex and cross-border transactions.
Viewed as an expert on the entire GCC VAT process, John is a regular on Dubai Eye Business Hour and regularly contributes articles for Lexis Nexis, Gulf News and Mondaq on VAT in the UAE and GCC. John also has his own column on real estate in the Property Weekly insert of the Gulf News.