Shoab Malak

Shoab is a director in Deloitte’s Indirect Tax group in San Francisco, providing a significant role in advising US clients on strategic global VAT structuring. Shoab has been based in San Francisco for approximately 15 years and prior to this was based in the Deloitte London office.

Shoab has more than 20 years experience of providing specific VAT consulting advice to clients in a number of sectors including Technology, Manufacturing, Telecom, and Life Sciences, particularly on cross border transactions and global supply contracts.

Whilst in the US, Shoab has been involved in providing VAT advice to US based clients undertaking transactions in regions such as Europe and Asia and in particular managing global VAT projects and advising on strategies to maximize VAT efficiency.

Shoab has also substantial experience with advising on M&A transactions pre and post merger and also has provided technical guidance with global ERP implementation projects.

Shoab gained his BA (Hons) in Business Studies from Middlesex University and holds professional qualifications with the Chartered Institute of Marketing and the Chartered Institute of Taxation in the UK.

He was also named as one of the US Indirect Tax Leaders in the 2015 International Tax review (ITR) guide.