Matt Hodges

Matt Hodges is a Managing Director at FTI Consulting and is based in London. Matt is in the European Tax Advisory practice within the Corporate Finance & Restructuring segment. He has significant experience working with large and complex businesses on group planning and cross-border corporate tax advisory projects, tax risk management and tax reporting, including groups headquartered in both the UK and overseas, as well as across a range of industries.

Matt advises on group reorganisations and planning, transaction support, tax relief optimisation and tax risk management. He also assists many of his clients across the full range of tax compliance and reporting requirements.

Matt joined FTI Consulting with its acquisition of substantially all of LECG’s European operations, where he helped lead the Corporate Tax team within the European Tax group. Before that, he was a senior manager with Bourne Business Consulting and had been a corporate tax specialist with Deloitte and Andersen, originally joining Andersen as a scholar in 1995.

Matt holds a B.Sc. in Economics from the University of Warwick and qualified as a chartered accountant in 2001. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.

Relevant Experience:

• Managed provision of full tax compliance, advisory and transaction services for a listed European group
• Provided full tax compliance services to a large luxury retail business; included substantial advisory and transaction support on the group’s property portfolio held through non-resident landlord entities
• Provided cross-border and M&A tax planning for a European data centre business
• Provided tax structuring and due diligence support for a UK/European retail business
• Provided tax due diligence to a UK/U.S. visual effects and animation business
• Provided tax due diligence to an international technology business
• Led a detailed review of tax projections for a UK banking group
• Provided full tax function support to a leading UK hotel group
• Led the refinancing of a global travel business
• Provided tax advisory and compliance support to an international rail business
• Assisted a global shipping group with tax enquiries into the disposal of a business