Kerim Keser

Managing Director, Transfer Pricing at KROLL

Kerim Keser is a managing director in the Munich Office and leads Kroll German, Swiss and Austrian Transfer Pricing activities, leveraging 20 years of transfer pricing experience in consulting firms and at the Australian Taxation Office (ATO).Kerim has extensive experience advising or auditing companies of all industries, including automotive, consumer products, pharmaceuticals, technology and financial services. Kerim has a results-driven approach, developing transfer pricing solutions for companies considering their size, complexity and industry's best practices. He is always aiming at solutions that are easy to implement.As a Transfer Pricing advisor with Kroll and big4 firms, Kerim consulted companies on transfer pricing issues associated with setting up new business units, decentralizing key functions, IP migration, financial transaction, entering new markets and post-merger integration. He has successfully supported multinationals during difficult audits and competent authority procedures, delivered global documentation projects and served as an expert witness for an intellectual property dispute.During his time at the ATO, Kerim was a lead economist in Australia's most important transfer pricing cases, a member of the ATO’s National Transfer Pricing Review Panel and a member of the National Tax Liaison Sub-group for Transfer Pricing. He also built a team specializing in financial transactions and the financial services industry.Kerim holds a PhD and MA in Economics (Dipl. Volkswirt) from the University of Potsdam, and an MA in Economics from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.