Stephen Pell FCCA CTA
Founder and Adviser, NorthArc
Stephen Pell is the founder of NorthArc, a specialist UK-to-US tax and structuring practice for technology, AI and media companies. He is a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants and a Chartered Tax Adviser, and he writes, reviews and signs every article on The Crossing Brief.
His work centres on the decisions where how a company is set up matters most: taking US investment, setting up US operations, restructuring a group, relocating a founder, and getting ready for investment, diligence or a sale, while protecting UK reliefs such as SEIS, EIS, EMI and R&D.
Stephen previously built and exited a specialist advisory business, expanded companies internationally, and has led a venture-backed technology company from the founder’s side of the table.
- Fellow, Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA)
- Chartered Tax Adviser (CTA), Chartered Institute of Taxation
NorthArc’s work is led by a chartered certified accountant who holds a current ACCA practising certificate and is regulated by the ACCA as an individual, and who is a member of the Chartered Institute of Taxation (CIOT).