After the announcement in 2014 by Unilever's CFO to separate the multi-billion Euro Baking, Cooking and Spreads (BCS) division in Europe and North America into 23 separate legal entities and creating its own legal legal structure, Peter co-led the legal separation with direct oversight of all complex international structuring arrangements and achieving this at minimal tax cost.Major activities were co-leading the valuation of the BCS businesses and entities with a focus on tax implications, and proactively directing the vast majority of tax risks via rulings in numerous countries on corporate income tax and VAT. Peter was also in the lead of the corporate income tax compliance of the larger BCS companies to ensure that the major transactions undertaken were properly reported.Peter co-led the separation and cross border transfer to the Netherlands of the BCS supply chain, ensuring that all transfer pricing arrangements of the business operations within BCS were implemented as expected and were put in place with the applicable law in each relevant jurisdiction.In this process a lot of work in relation to setting up contracts and inter-company agreements was done. Peter partnered with the business and multiple advisers across the countries in a satisfactory manner to ensure successful implementation of the project.Peter provided key tax and business information in the due diligence process for selling BCS to KKR for an amount of EUR 6.8bn.Peter successfully defended Unilever's business models over many years in many jurisdictions, by setting the strategy and implementing the actions including personal participation in key meetings with local tax authorities to finalise their enquiries cost-effectively.

Being responsible for all tax operations in the countries in the Nordics, Central and Eastern Europe and Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, Peter actively led the acquisition and integration of a major acquisition (Euro 0.7bn) in Russia (Kalina), and the complex unwinding of the international structure.He also advised on and co-led the internal process of outsourcing tax compliance to a third party in various major operating territories, including ensuring that Unilever received value for money as a result of this process.Other activities: leading complex negotiations with local tax authorities including tax audits, litigations, advance pricing agreements and tax settlements.In this period Peter also chaired and presented quarterly Europe tax connect calls for 50-100 colleagues and he ensured good communication between tax department personnel and key business stakeholders to develop his direct reports so that they became stronger, better motivated, more reliable and well respected professionals.

In this period Peter was responsible for managing dividends and other distributions, capital injections and restructurings by companies in 32 countries indirectly owned by a US parent. In this period Peter became familiair with US E&P-rules, US CFC legislation, ' 10-50' rules, US vote or value thresholds, created insight in US GAAP, became responsible for Unilever's SOX-process for distributions to the US and gained a lot of international tax experience in Asia, Latin America, Europe and North America and valuation and impairment issues.

When joining Unilever in 1999, Peter became part of Unilever's Dutch Desk at its corporate center in Rotterdam whereby he was responsible for drafting a large number of Corporate Income Tax returns including the tax unit Unilever NV and its 40+ subsidiaries. Tax accounting played an important role in this process. The quarter and year end corporate income tax calculations, the provisioning and true up calculations were other key activities in this period. Peter became also responsible for Dutch indirect tax matters and for this, he represented Unilever for a number of years in The Hague at VNO/NCW.Tax due diligence, advise, provisioning and implementation in the area of corporate income tax in relation to mergers and acquisitions were other areas Peter was involved in, one of them being the US$ 26bn acquisition of Bestfoods in 2001.For the Dutch corporate income tax compliance process and the corporate income cash tax process Peter build the SOX-compliance.

Peter's first job was with PWC in Rotterdam where he started as a tax assistent. In 1998 Peter became a manager of a team with 6 individuals. In this period he advised a large number of mainly middle market clients in the area of personal income tax, wealth tax but predominantly corporate income tax with the support of Peter's team members.