Renewable & Sustainable Energy

Batanayi Katongera

Partner, Head of Transfer Pricing

Batanayi is a Partner based in the London office.

Batanayi leads the transfer pricing service line at MHA and has over 18 years of transfer pricing experience in the UK across a broad spectrum of industry sectors including financial services, private equity, funds, manufacturing, media and technology, as well as life sciences and telecommunications.

Batanayi helps clients prepare and defend transfer pricing policies and he has a particular focus on resolving transfer pricing disputes involving complex transfer pricing enquiries.  This extends to handling MAP proceedings and agreeing APAs, and ATCAs. 

Jason Mitchell

Head of Technology, Partner

Jason is an audit partner and joined MHA MacIntyre Hudson in January 2013 following the merger with HMT Assurance LLP. He joined HMT from KPMG in 2006 having had ten years of experience dealing with a wide variety businesses in the owner managed business group. This included privately owned SMEs together with subsidiaries of large listed groups. Jason was also involved in a number of specialist transaction support projects in his time at KPMG and has continued to perform financial due diligence and related services for his clients, often leading on into ongoing compliance and advisory relationships.

Jason enjoys the freedom of spending time with his clients to really understand their business and develop ways to help with all of their financial and wider business issues. Due to the nature of his portfolio, Jason has experience in a number of areas such as technical accounting and restructuring exercises.  He is particularly focused on businesses undergoing change and preparing his clients to maximise the value from their business.

Jason has spent some time acting as Chief Finance Officer for one of his clients which he feels helps him understand what it is like ‘the other side of the fence’. He completed his MBA at Manchester Business School which was focused on SME organisations.

He also heads up the technology sector group for the firm and is also interested in hi-tech manufacturing as a sector.

Joe Spencer

Manager

As a qualified accountant and business advisor Joe specialises in advising Agricultural & Rural businesses on a broad spectrum of issues from Capital Tax Planning through to Performance Analysis & Benchmarking.    With responsibility for the Eastern region, Joe manages the Agricultural & Rural Businesses for both the Peterborough and Bedford offices. 

Joe’s accountancy training took place in an agriculturally focussed firm, enabling him to consolidate & strengthen his knowledge of this sector. Success resulted in his managing his own client portfolio & assisting SMEs to achieve their business and personal objectives.

In his spare time, Joe is at his happiest in the fresh air, taking in the local countryside, preferably with a cheese board and a glass of port.

Atul Kariya

Head of Manufacturing & Engineering, Partner

Atul is the firm's National Sector Head for Manufacturing and Engineering and leads the Eastern Region's Business Advisory team.  Atul advises a variety of corporate clients with a focus on the manufacturing and construction sectors.  Having been with the firm since 1998, he offers his clients sound forward thinking advice, particularly in relation to strategic planning, tax mitigation and group structures. Atul’s strength is to help clients challenge their thinking and provide innovative, joined-up solutions that help them succeed.