Peter Dachs

Peter Dachs is an Executive at ENS in the Tax practice. His practice focuses on Tax Law, specialising in financial services, mergers and acquisitions, and international tax.

He advises high net worth individuals on their investments, including the tax consequences of South African and offshore trusts. In particular, he advises South African corporates and financial institutions on their domestic tax issues in relation to, among others, group re-organisations, financing and mergers and acquisitions.

Peter also advises South African multinationals in respect of the South African tax consequences arising from their offshore investments, including profit extraction mechanisms, controlled foreign company planning and transfer pricing advice. In addition, he advises multinationals investing in South Africa in respect of appropriate investment strategies.

He has acted for South African and foreign corporates, banks and financial institutions, including insurance companies, and advises high net worth individuals on the tax consequences of South African and offshore trusts. His experience also includes advising on exchange control issues in respect of both investments into and out of South Africa.

Peter is an editor of The Taxpayer and has co-authored Silke on International Tax and Broomberg on Tax Strategy, and has lectured on tax at the universities of Cape Town and Stellenbosch.

He holds a BA and an LLB (cum laude) from Rhodes University, an LLM from Cambridge University and an HDip Tax from the University of Cape Town. He is admitted as an attorney and conveyancer of the High Court of South Africa and as a solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales. He is recognised by Chambers Global Guide for Tax, by The Legal 500 EMEA in its Hall of Fame for Tax, and by Best Lawyers, which named him Tax Lawyer of the Year in 2022 and 2018.