Louis van Manen

Louis has over 24 years of experience in providing specialist tax support to external audit teams. In this role Louis has been responsible for signing off on a significant number of tax reviews on clients in the financial services industries. These include short- and long-term insurance clients, asset-backed financiers, micro-lenders and asset managers.

In addition to his experience with tax reviews, Louis consults extensively on tax matters across a variety of industries. He prides himself with being able to methodically analyse complex matters, transactions and businesses to assess their tax consequences, if any.

Largest Financial Services clients serviced:

Telesure Group
Allan Gray
Munich Re
Coface Insurance
Abacus Insurance group
King Price Life
27Four Life
Emerald Life
Constantia Insurance
Relyant Life
Hollard subsidiaries
Africa Unity Life

Group / Multinational audit experience

During his career in Tax, Louis has been responsible for tax reviews in support of his external audit colleagues on over 50 JSE listed entities, many including cross border operations and entities.

Qualifications and professional affiliations

CA (SA)
South African Institute of Chartered Accountants (SAICA)
IRBA non-attest member
SAIT member (General Tax Practitioner)
Professional Certificate in Tax Opinion and Dispute Writing (The Tax Faculty) (2020)