Akif Aslam and Djanno Boskan join Alvarez & Marsal Tax

Global professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal has welcomed two new senior experts to its Tax team, with both Akif Aslam and Djanno Boskan crossing from a Big Four firm.
Akif Aslam is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Riyadh. He has extensive expertise in tax compliance, advisory services and resolving tax disputes. Aslam also specializes in handling tax audits and appellate proceedings before Saudi tax authorities and providing strategic tax structuring advice to create efficient tax optimum structures in Saudi Arabia and across the Middle East.
Prior to joining Alvarez & Marsal, Aslam spent 15 years at EY, culminating in a leadership role where he managed a substantial tax compliance portfolio, serving a diverse clientele that ranged from multinational corporations to prominent Saudi family-owned businesses. During his time at EY, he played a key role in establishing the firm’s offshore tax office.
Djanno Boskan is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Dubai. He brings more than 13 years of experience in tax transformation and technology to the firm. Prior to Alvarez & Marsal, he worked with PwC in Dubai where he led the Tax Function offering for the Middle East. He helped large companies across the region in their tax transformation journey and with the implementation of tax technology within SAP, Oracle and others.
Previously, Boskan spent eight years at Deloitte where he worked in the Amsterdam, New York and Dubai office. He worked on tax transformation projects for large multinationals and his expertise includes shared service center set up for tax, global ERP implementations (SAP and Oracle) and data analytics for tax.
Boskan’s notable engagements include global and regional tax transformation projects helping to reshape the tax function of large multinational companies. Most recently, he supported a large family group with their strategic initiative to create a centralized tax function.