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Yvonne is a tax partner in the PwC financial services practice in Ireland, and is head of PwC's global aviation leasing tax network. She is the leader of PwC Ireland’s aviation finance practice, along with the banking and capital markets tax practice in Dublin.

Yvonne has over 20 years of experience advising financial services clients on all aspects of domestic and international cross-border tax matters, including international tax structuring through Ireland, foreign tax transaction issues and the taxation of capital market transactions.

Yvonne is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and is an industry advisor to the council’s of both ALI, Aircraft Leasing Ireland, and IASA, the Irish Aviation Students' Association.

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Ronan is a partner in PwC Ireland’s financial services practice.  He leads the Banking, Insurance and Aviation Finance assurance practice. In this capacity, Ronan provides both external and internal audit services, as well as advisory assistance and reviews to domestic and multi-national clients, including some of the leading aircraft lessors globally.

He has significant experience in the implementation of IFRS, US GAAP and Sarbanes Oxley within banks and treasury centres. He is also responsible for the market risk services within PwC Ireland which provide advice on strategy, controls, complex accounting and valuation related issues impacting banks, treasuries and structured finance companies today.

Ronan is the Irish representative on the PwC Global Corporate Treasury Technical Committee, the PwC European Treasury Leaders network and the PwC expert group on the impacts of changes to loan loss provisioning. He is also responsible for the Firm's Risk and Quality function, and in this role, is a member of PwC Ireland's Leadership Team.

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Brian is a tax partner in PwC Ireland's financial services practice. He specialises in corporate taxation in the aviation leasing and finance industry. He has significant experience advising on domestic and international taxation matters, including international tax structuring.

Brian has in-depth knowledge and experience in the aircraft leasing industry and provides support on all aspects of managing an aircraft portfolio, including international transactional support and tax structuring. Brian works with international aviation leasing clients on a wide range of tax matters such as foreign investor structuring, use of Section 110 companies, foreign tax transaction issues and due diligence.

Brian is an associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and the Irish Taxation Institute.

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Joe Conboy is a tax partner in the firm's aviation finance practice. Joe has nearly 15 years of experience in advising on aircraft leasing and financing related matters.

He specialises in the corporate taxation of aircraft and engine lessors and has significant experience in advising on domestic and international taxation matters, including the acquisition, establishment and management of Irish-based aircraft leasing platforms and the taxation of capital markets transactions.

Joe's clients include some of the world's largest and most established aircraft leasing companies as well as a number of latest market entrants from both the US and Asia. Joe is a fellow of Chartered Accountants Ireland and is an Associate of the Irish Tax Institute.

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Paul is an accomplished industry leader with over 20 years' aviation and finance experience including leasing, asset management, banking, consultancy and airlines in Dublin, London and Hong Kong. 

Paul started his career in Aer Lingus before moving to RBS Aviation Capital’s Investor Markets team where he worked on debt syndication, structured finance and aircraft trading. He subsequently worked in commercial banking for ANZ and ING with a focus on asset management, infrastructure finance and aircraft finance. In 2010 Paul joined Ascend as Head of Risk Advisory and in January 2012 he moved to Hong Kong to set up and head Ascend’s Asia-based consultancy team. He returned to Dublin in 2015 to set up the Accipiter platform and was appointed CEO in 2016, a position he held until the company's sale in 2022. While at Accipiter he managed the company from startup to a lessor of 150 owned and committed aircraft and led the merger with the MCAP platform to create AMCK Aviation in 2019.

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