KordaMentha expands advisory offering with Tax Controversy and Disputes team. 27 July 2026 Consultancy.com.au KordaMentha has established a Tax Controversy and Disputes team, enhancing its advisory capabilities to support businesses navigating complex Australian Taxation Office (ATO) reviews, objections, investigations and litigation. As an independent practice, the team provides legal advice while drawing on KordaMentha's broader forensic and technology enabled capabilities, giving clients an end-to-end approach to resolving disputes and managing tax risk. Mark Korda, CEO and Co-Founder of KordaMentha, said the new team reflects growing demand for experienced, independent advisers who can support organisations through increasingly complex ATO matters. "Clients come to KordaMentha when they're facing their most complex commercial and regulatory challenges. Adding a specialist Tax Controversy and Disputes capability allows us to support them through another area where independent advice and experienced advisers are critical." The team is led by Eddy Moussa, alongside Partner Andrew Howell and Executive Director and Karen Price. Collectively, they bring decades of experience across tax controversy, litigation and ATO engagement. Moussa works with corporates, private groups and high net worth individuals on complex tax disputes, governance matters and ATO engagements. Howell works with clients on complex tax controversy matters, including significant disputes, litigation and strategic engagements with the ATO. Karen has joined KordaMentha following a career at the ATO, where she most recently served as Assistant Commissioner for Private Wealth, Assurance and International Risk. "When facing ATO scrutiny, experience matters," said Moussa. "Our team has been involved in some of Australia's most significant tax disputes, bringing a depth of experience that is difficult to replicate elsewhere in the market."

KordaMentha appoints Anthony Moore and Jill McGahon as partners in Canberra. 20 April 2026 Consultancy.com.au Australian business advisory KordaMentha has recruited former Big Four pair Anthony Moore and Jill McGahon as partners in the firm's forensics practice in Canberra, taking its office tally to five. Having launched the public sector-focused practice in the nation's capital in 2024, KordaMentha's Canberra office has now welcomed Moore and McGahon from Ernst & Young and KPMG, where the pair had respectively served as directors. The firm said the dual appointments reflect its continued investment in the ACT and commitment to supporting clients across the government and private sector as cyber risk, regulatory expectations, and stakeholder scrutiny continues to grow and evolve. Anthony Moore brings over two decades worth of experience to KordaMentha in leading complex cyber transformations across government and industry, including during the past one spent at Ernst & Young. Prior to joining EY, he spent seven years at Verizon as its Asia Pacific professional services head of federal government and head of PMO (project management office). A commerce graduate of ANU in information systems and finance, Moore specialises in strategy development, cyber resilience, and maturity uplifts in organisational security, having previously directed major multi-year national cyber initiatives including hub development and identity & access management reforms while guiding stakeholders through operational change. Jill McGahon meanwhile joins KordaMentha from KPMG, where she has spent the past eight years after an earlier career in the public sector, including in senior roles with the Logan City Council and Office of the Health Ombudsman and as a case manager with the Queensland Department of Justice and Attorney-General, having originally graduated with a law degree with QUT. With a strong legal and regulatory grounding, McGahon specialises in supporting organisations to strengthen their governance frameworks, ethics and integrity advisory, and leading independent reviews and enquiries, including matters involving misconduct, fraud and corruption and those subject to public, stakeholder, and media scrutiny in complex and politicised environments. Canberra office. The pair of new recruits join former PwC partners Andrew Mrnjavac and Jess Finlay together with Lachlan Abbott as Canberra-based partners, with all three also sharing background at EY, while office colleague and KPMG alum Alan Duong is a director in the forensics practice. Other recent national senior arrivals include former financial services executives Paul Riordan and Scott Tanner.