Lucy Sauvage

Senior Director
20 years of experience in tax risk and dispute management
Clients across all industries and business sectors
Advises on all matters regarding tax governance and risk management
Manchester
@alvarezmarsal
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Lucy Sauvage is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Manchester. She has more than 20 years of experience in tax risk and dispute management.

Ms. Sauvage’s clients range from individual taxpayers to multinational corporate groups across all industries and business sectors. She advises clients on all matters regarding tax governance and risk management and is additionally a dispute resolution specialist, helping clients to navigate and settle all genres of HMRC enquiry and disclosures.

Ms. Sauvage’s particular areas of expertise include Code of Practice 8 and 9 enquiries, voluntary disclosures, alternative dispute resolution, Senior Accounting Officer compliance, tax strategy and policy development, tax operation assessments, tax risk and control registers, and corporate criminal offences for not preventing the facilitation of tax evasion defense implementation.

Prior to joining A&M, Ms. Sauvage spent 17 years with BDO in Manchester, where she most recently served as a Tax Partner, leading the firm’s work across the North West and the Midlands.

Ms. Sauvage earned a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry and biological chemistry from the University of Nottingham. She is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS).

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