David Rothenberg advises the firm's corporate and private clients on strategic tax planning. He also advises clients on international tax planning, particularly non-domiciles and UK residents working abroad, whether permanently or temporarily.
David is an acknowledged expert in his field: recently, he was approached by professional advisers to two clients, and asked to assist in major international tax enquiries - both were settled successfully. He has also recently appeared as an expert witness in a professional negligence case.
David is a consultant to the committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales' Faculty of Taxation and member of its IHT and trusts committee. He has been invited by the Chartered Institute of Taxation to submit a fellowship thesis which he is presently writing and is a Member of International Fiscal Association.
He is a regular media commentator on tax and related issues, contributing to the national and consumer press, trade journals, radio (News Direct, BBC Radio 4
Moneybox and
Today), the web (
www.timesonline.co.uk,
www.thisislondon.co.uk,
www.pa.press.net,
www.teletext.co.uk,
accountingweb.co.uk), and TV (BBC1
Business Breakfast, BBC2
Working Lunch).
David is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. He was born in 1940 and has been a partner in the firm since 1968. He and his wife Ruth live in North London, and they have four children and eight grandchildren. In his spare time, David regularly attends theatre and opera, and is an enthusiastic amateur photographer (of his family mostly!).
David is actively involved in his community. He is dedicated to working on behalf of Jewish refugees from Nazi persecution, as vice-chairman and treasurer of the Association of Jewish Refugees, as a member of the Board of The Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany Inc., and as a director of the United Restitution Organisation Ltd.