Expert resume of Amanda Pletz

Director at NERA. Over 20 years’ experience in applying economic and financial analyses to international tax, transfer pricing, and other issues involving litigation, arbitration, regulation, and state aid. Co-editor, “Applying the Arm’s Length Principle to Intra Group Financial Transactions: A Reference Guide". Guest lecturer at the University of Lausanne.

Ms. Pletz is a Director at NERA and has over 20 years of experience applying economic and financial analyses to transfer pricing, international tax, and other issues involving litigation, arbitration, regulation, and subsidy control (state aid). 

She has directed numerous projects involving transfer pricing, economic and financial risk modelling and valuation across a broad range of industries including but not limited to private banking and asset management, fintech, private equity, real estate, insurance, trading, and broader banking sectors.

Ms. Pletz is a trusted advisor on capital structure issues; cash pooling; pricing of loans, hybrid instruments, guarantees, captive insurance arrangements; in addition to leasing and loans, and other complex asset valuations. She has also authored a number of expert reports in the context of litigation and arbitration matters.

Ms. Pletz has been recognised in Corporate Tax as a Global Elite Thought Leader by Who's Who Legal (WWL) for several years and is ranked in Who's Who Legal Corporate Tax–Experts and Who's Who Legal Experts–Financial Advisory and Valuation–Corporate Tax Experts directories. 

She is the co-editor of Applying the Arm’s Length Principle to Intra Group Financial Transactions: A Reference Guide, an immeasurably valuable reference guide for tax practitioners, tax administrations, and tax scholars in developing standards and policies dealing with intra-group financing issues. She is regularly invited to speak on the topic of economics of financing transactions in a related party context and transfer pricing issues in the financial services sector.

Ms. Pletz 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 topic of intercompany financing as part of the University’s executive program. Ms. Pletz holds a Master’s, Honours, and Bachelor’s degrees in economics from the University of Pretoria.