Sherif has 15 years of experience advising clients on a variety of transfer pricing matters and was recently named as one of the world's leading transfer pricing professionals by International Tax Review. Prior to joining Ceteris, Sherif was with Ernst & Young LLP, working with clients in the financial services, publishing, commodities, software, retail goods, telecommunications, energy, engineering, and construction industries. As lead economist in E&Y's financial services transfer pricing practice in New York, he assisted clients in analyzing a variety of related party transactions including the global trading of financial instruments, asset management services, brokerage services, the sharing of banking fees, insurance and re-insurance transactions, loans, guarantees, management services, and administrative services.

Sherif has addressed head office and other intercompany services issues as well as transfer pricing of intangible assets. He has advised clients on the use of Cost Contribution Arrangements, including with respect to harmonization with the US Shared Services rules and their relationship to other transfer pricing methodologies. He has also performed activity-based costing analyses of intercompany and interdepartmental charges.

Sherif holds a PhD in economics from Fordham University and has spoken at numerous conferences and seminars regarding transfer pricing.