Keith O’DONNELL

Keith is a founding partner and the managing partner of Atoz. He is also the Global Real Estate leader of Taxand, the first global network of independent tax advisors. Keith has been a tax specialist for 20 years during which time he has held senior technical and management positions within Ernst & Young, Andersen and Taxand.

As a partner of Ernst & Young, he was head of the real estate industry for Continental Western Europe as well as the tax leader for the asset management team in Europe. Within Andersen, he was responsible for the asset management practice in EMEIA. Keith advises international groups on the design and implementation of global tax strategies with particular emphasis on Global Real Estate and Private Equity funds and is recognized as one of Luxembourg’s leading tax advisers. He has been instrumental in shaping legislative change in coordination with industry bodies. He has sat on a number of key international bodies including the OECD’s collective investment vehicle ICG and the EU Commissions expert group on open-ended real estate funds.

Keith was educated in Brussels and Dublin, is bilingual in French and English and speaks Luxembourgish and Italian. He has a law degree from the National University of Ireland and is qualified as a Tax Adviser and as a Chartered Accountant in Ireland and Luxembourg. He has lectured extensively at professional organisations including EVCA and INREV and has followed extensive professional development courses including Harvard Business School.