With more than 20 years of experience in international and transaction tax, Mr. Honold has extensive experience with M&A deals, including carve-outs, divestments, leveraged acquisitions and restructurings. His work covers all aspects of M&A deals including buy-side and vendor due diligence, structuring, and SPA advice. Mr. Honold also works on pre-deal separation support and post-deal services such as post-acquisition business integration and operating model effectiveness, managing transfer pricing, controversy, management incentive programs, and compliance.

Prior to joining A&M, Mr. Honold was a tax partner with EY, serving most recently as the Leader of the Transaction Tax practice in Switzerland and Liechtenstein. He also built and led EY’s International Tax practice in Central Switzerland and worked at EY’s Swiss Desk in New York. Mr. Honold served private equity and corporate clients in M&A transactions as well as multinational clients with headquarters, Principal, trading, IP, holding or finance companies in Switzerland in life sciences, chemicals, consumer goods, automotive, energy and natural resources, and other industries. He was responsible Global Client Service Partner and/or Global Tax Account Leader for a number of Swiss-based multinational groups and G360 accounts and advised in recent IPOs and public-to-private transactions.

Mr. Honold earned an MBA (finance and accounting concentration) and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of St. Gallen. He completed the International Management Program (IMP) at Stern School of Business of New York University and the professional exams as Certified Public Accountant (CPA) with the New York State Board of Accountancy. He is qualified as a Swiss Certified Tax Advisor. A dual Swiss and German citizen, Mr. Honold is fluent in German, English, French, and Spanish.