Taxand
Global Guide 2024
About
Number of members firms: 48
Number of Partners: 710
Taxand Global Chairman: Frederic Donnedieu De Vabres, Arsene Taxand
Board members: Vincente Bootello, Garrigues; Olivier Vergniolle, Arsene Taxand; Xaver Ditz, Flick Gocke Schaumburg; Suhail Nathani, Economic Laws Practice; Henrietta Kristanto, PB Taxand; Keith O’Donnell, ATOZ; Veerinder Singh, Tricor Taxand; Angela Rosca, Taxhouse; Jens Brodbeck, ENSafrica; Marvin Rust, Alvarez & Marsal LLP(UK); Ernie Perez, Alvarez & Marsal LLC (USA). Chief Managing Officer Caroline Conder, Taxand Global Operations & Policy
Firm overview
Taxand is a global organisation comprising top tier independent tax advisory firms who together provide high quality, integrated tax advice to clients worldwide.
Strong foundations
The organisation was established in 2005 by nine respected and entrepreneurial tax firms with a common vision for delivering first-class, tailored advice that helps relieve the pressures associated with making complex tax decisions. The inception of Taxand followed market demand for tax advice that is truly independent and free from audit regulations.
One Integrated team of experts
During its 19-year history, Taxand has grown into an integrated team of leading experts with more than 710 partners and over 2,500 advisors across 48 countries around the world. Taxand’s network of professionals grasp both the fine points of tax and the broader strategic implications, helping clients to mitigate risk, manage uncertainty and drive business performance. Its member firms are leaders in their markets, and Taxand is well ranked in multiple Chambers Guides.
Trusted partner to clients worldwide
Taxand is the trusted partner to thousands of reputable clients – from Fortune 100 companies to mid-market multinationals, national corporations, private entities and high net worth individuals worldwide. It is also a leading commentator on global tax issues and hosts conferences and events around the world as well as producing global thought leadership publications.
Taxand member firms
Argentina: Bruchou & Funes de Rioja is the leading law firm in Argentina and specialises in international tax, mergers and acquisitions, cross border structuring, tax litigation, custom duties and foreign trade. Its diverse teams are led by highly recognized lawyers with deep business knowledge in each practice and industry, and ready to deliver tailor-made solutions.
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Australia: Corrs Chambers Westgarth is Australia’s leading independent law firm. The tax team has a strong focus on transactional work, including mergers and acquisitions, tax due diligence, cross-border investment (inbound and outbound), private equity investment, funds establishment and management, major projects and infrastructure, capital markets and finance, property development and real estate, and corporate restructures.
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Austria: LeitnerLeitner is one of the leading firms of tax professionals, auditors and financial advisory experts in Central and South-Eastern Europe. Its diverse and highly specialised team is passionate about finding feasible solutions across a wide spectrum of tax issues and puts interdisciplinary, cross-border cooperation into practice every day.
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Belgium: Arteo is a Brussels based independent law firm focused on three core areas of expertise: tax advisory and controversy work (offering the full spectrum of tax services), wealth and estate planning, and Belgian Supreme Court procedures. With a tradition of excellence in tax law, Arteo delivers the highest level of service with expertise and precision.
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Canada: BLG (Borden Ladner Gervais LLP) is Canada’s largest full service law firm. BLG’s team of tax specialists advises on international corporate tax issues, the tax implications of mergers and acquisitions, the structuring of inbound and outbound cross border transactions, corporate tax planning, financing structures, debt restructuring and executive compensation.
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Chile: Barros & Errázuriz Abogados is one of the leading law firms in Chile, providing comprehensive legal advice through an established team of attorneys. The firm draws on rich experience in advising on tax planning and tax litigation. It also provides tax advice to local and international clients on incorporations, acquisitions, reorganisation and liquidations, with strong practice in private stock and asset acquisitions, mergers, joint ventures private equity funds and cross-border transactions.
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China: Hendersen Taxand is an independent Chinese tax firm with over 40 tax practitioners committed to listening to clients, understanding their business operations and needs, and taking creative and proactive steps to deliver workable solutions that add considerable value. Corporate tax services include: corporate tax compliance, corporate tax advisory, indirect taxes advisory, tax health check, transfer pricing.
Columbia: Gómez-Pinzón provides consulting services in different areas of the law and ensures clients make the best decisions for their business. The firm’s tax practice is recognised for having a team of tax structuring specialists for all types of transactions, including foreign investments, mergers and acquisitions and structured finance.
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Croatia: LeitnerLeitner is one of the leading firms of tax professionals, auditors and financial advisory experts in Central and South-Eastern Europe. Its diverse and highly specialised team is passionate about finding feasible solutions across a wide spectrum of tax issues and puts interdisciplinary, cross-border cooperation into practice every day.
Cyprus: STI Taxand is an international tax firm with over 40 years of tax experience and expertise. A specialised team aims to provide the highest possible quality of service in all areas of national and international taxation, including financial services, M&A tax, private client services, indirect tax, compensation tax, real estate tax, energy tax, tax disputes, transfer pricing and business restructuring.
Czech Republic: LeitnerLeitner is one of the leading firms of tax professionals, auditors and financial advisory experts in Central and South-Eastern Europe. Its diverse and highly specialised team is passionate about finding feasible solutions across a wide spectrum of tax issues and puts interdisciplinary, cross-border cooperation into practice every day.
Denmark: Bech-Bruun is a leading full-service law firm in Denmark and one of the largest within the Nordic region. Bech-Bruun advises on all aspects of corporate and commercial law providing Danish as well as international clients with tailored, interdisciplinary and value-adding solutions. The firm’s tax group is among the most specialised and has expert qualifications within the entire spectrum of direct and indirect taxes, such as M&A tax planning, group structures, VAT, structured finance and financial instruments as well as high-end tax litigation.
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Finland: Borenius is one of the leading law firms in Finland. The firm’s tax practice offers high-quality tax services that cover both domestic and international taxation. Its versatile team focuses on delivering integrated tax advice independent from audit work to corporate entities, associations, authorities, and private individuals.
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France: Arsene Taxand is the first business law firm in France exclusively specialising in tax. Structured around the model of major strategy consulting firms, Arsene Taxand’s team has in-depth knowledge of the main issues facing today’s multinationals. Far from simply offering standardised products or purely macro-economic tax planning, the firm aims to offer a premium service to its clients by providing tailored solutions.
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Germany: Flick Gocke Schaumburg (FGS) is an independent law firm that has established itself as Germany’s leading practice for tax-focused legal advice. As well as national and international tax law, FGS specialises in corporate/M&A, real estate, competition and employment law, private wealth, company succession and trusts as well as criminal law and criminal tax law. In addition, the firm provides auditing and business valuation services.
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Greece: Zepos & Yannopoulos is a Greek leading law firm established in 1893. The firm has a strong international orientation which is echoed in its structure, standards and approach. Its tax expertise covers all aspects of tax, from transactional advisory to preparation and filing of tax returns. Specific expertise includes business tax advisory, compliance and accounting services, M&A and international tax, real estate, VAT and indirect tax, banking, finance and capital markets, transfer pricing, tax controversy and litigation.
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Hungary: LeitnerLeitner is one of the leading firms of tax professionals, auditors and financial advisory experts in Central and South-Eastern Europe. Its diverse and highly specialised team is passionate about finding feasible solutions across a wide spectrum of tax issues and puts interdisciplinary, cross-border cooperation into practice every day.
India: Economic Laws Practice (ELP) is a leading full-service Indian law firm offering comprehensive services across the entire spectrum of transactional, advisory, litigation, regulatory, and tax matters. ELP is the only law firm in India with an integrated tax offering covering transactional, advisory, and litigation across direct taxes, transfer pricing, and all indirect taxes.
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Indonesia: PB Taxand is one of Indonesia’s premier tax and financial advisory service providers. The firm has over 180 practitioners and offers a broad range of tax services including local and international tax, tax planning, tax compliance, tax verification, tax objection, tax appeal and transfer pricing.
Ireland: William Fry is a leading full-service Irish law firm. Its client-focused service combines technical excellence with commercial awareness and a practical, constructive approach to business issues. William Fry Tax Advisors is the correspondent tax practice of William Fry and brings together tax lawyers, accountants and consultants in one highly innovative team. The team works with domestic and international corporations, entrepreneurs, family businesses, trusts and high net worth individuals. Specialist areas include capital taxation, stamp duty, trusts and estates, tax planning and tax defence.
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Israel: Herzog Fox & Neeman is a diverse law firm of some 400 lawyers, with a particular focus on international law, acting for a global client base. The firm has the strongest tax practice of any law firm in Israel and covers all areas of international tax, including transfer pricing and indirect taxes. In addition to tax, Herzog Fox & Neeman is internationally ranked in the top tier for corporate M&A, capital markets, banking, real estate and other practice areas.
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Italy: ALMA LED is an Italian tax law firm recognised for the high quality and leading reputation of its professionals. The firm offers customised tax assistance and consultancy on direct and indirect taxes and delivers expert advice on tax and corporate issues relating to extraordinary transactions. Specific areas of focus include general fiscal planning and structuring, tax compliance, real estate tax, indirect tax, international taxation and transfer pricing.
Japan: Nagashima Ohno & Tsunematsu is a leading full-service Japanese law firm of approximately 500 lawyers, with a strong tax law practice. The firm is internationally ranked in the top tier for tax as well as for numerous business law practices including M&A/corporate, banking and finance, capital markets and dispute resolution.
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Luxembourg: ATOZ is a high-end independent advisory firm offering a comprehensive and integrated range of direct and indirect tax solutions as well as transfer pricing, corporate and aviation finance and tax litigation services to both local and international clients. The team of carefully selected professionals work together to ensure consistently high standards of client service from beginning to end.
Malaysia: Tricor Taxand is a specialist tax advisory firm with dedicated professionals committed to service excellence. The firm’s essential focus is to provide specialist tax services to clients whose tax liability is impacted by business decisions. At all times the team brings a personalised touch with director involvement in all client engagements, ensuring the client is aware of all possible tax implications resulting from their business activities.
Malta: Avanzia is a professional services firm providing a comprehensive range of taxation and corporate services, back-office operations and financial advice. The firm specialises in international tax and treaty planning, tax consulting and tax restructuring, working with a wide variety of clients including multinational and local companies, mid-market companies and large private entities. The team also works with high-net-worth individuals and has many clients operating within the financial services and gaming industries.
Mauritius: IQ-EQ Mauritius is part of IQ-EQ Group, a leading global investor services group, and has a wide base of clients including Fortune 500 companies, Forbes listed entities, high net worth individuals, major development financial institutions, top fund managers and institutions, as well as start-up fund managers and family businesses. As part of Taxand’s global network and expertise, IQ-EQ Mauritius enhances value for clients by providing integrated international tax services.
Mexico: Mijares, Angoitia, Cortés y Fuentes, S.C. is one of the most prominent law firms in Mexico, delivering a full range of high-quality legal services to clients. The firm has one of the leading tax teams active on the Mexican market. The team of highly-trained professionals offers stand-alone tax advice, and regularly provides support to other practice areas of the firm, particularly in the context of complex, cross-border M&A transactions.
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Netherlands: Taxand Netherlands is an independent tax advisory firm offering a full range of tax services (including VAT, payroll and transfer pricing). The firm’s focus areas are tax disputes and transactions, both national and international. The team of seasoned tax professionals provides practical solutions based on a strong technical foundation as well as being dedicated to offering clients a choice in tax advisors free from audit or legal based conflicts of interest.
Norway: Advokatfirmaet Selmer AS is a full-service law firm providing legal advice to national and international companies within all business law areas, with a particular focus on energy, real estate, transactions and dispute resolution. The firm’s team of tax advisors specialises in international tax and tax treaties, taxation of business enterprises, tax planning on mergers and acquisitions and group structuring, group taxation, transfer pricing, equity compensation plans, taxation of charitable organisations, payroll services, and taxation of individuals and expatriates.
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Peru: Garrigues was established in Peru in September 2014. The firm’s tax practice was designed, from its inception, to operate as both a support to other aspects of its strong multi-disciplinary corporate and business law practice (including M&A, finance, corporate law, project finance), and also as a self-sufficient team which is able to create and serve its own client base with the highest standards of quality.
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Philippines: Salvador Law is recognised as one of the leading firms engaged in tax practice in the Philippines. With services ranging from tax advisory, tax planning services, transfer pricing, commercial law, and special projects to employment and human relations, litigation, alternative dispute resolution, and intellectual property law, SLB continues to solidify its role as a true and trusted counsel for its clients.
Poland: CRIDO is a full-service consulting firm with a tax advisory team assisting clients with domestic and international tax issues. Services include international tax planning, CIT, transfer pricing, VAT, real estate tax, tax and tax-administrative proceedings, tax and legal aspects of employment issues, as well as wide-ranging advice on tax governance. The digital team at CRIDO provides IT tools to support the tax function and automate processes. CRIDO also has a valuation and financial modelling team, a full-service legal advisory team, and an M&A team covering Corporate Finance, tax, legal and financial due diligence. Moreover, CRIDO advises on the development of innovative businesses by helping to raise funding from public and other available sources.
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Portugal: Garrigues is the largest tax and legal services provider on the Iberian Peninsula. Garrigues plays a leading role in the Portuguese market, positioning itself among the principal local firms, having participated not only in some of the biggest deals in the country but also in extremely complex engagements requiring first-rate, practical and innovative advice. The firm’s exceptional multidisciplinary team and international outlook enables it to offer clients a quality integrated advisory service for all tax and legal matters whenever and wherever they need it.
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Puerto Rico: Alvarado Tax and Business Advisors provides quality, objective, in-depth tax consulting advice that is free from audit-based conflict of interest. Delivering expert and workable solutions to complex tax problems, the firm’s team of tax practitioners has years of unmatched hands-on international, government and corporate tax and public accounting experience.
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Romania: Taxhouse is a high-end independent tax advisory firm offering a comprehensive and integrated range of tax consultancy and related compliance services. The firm works with a variety of clients including multinational, mid-market, locally listed companies, large private entities and high-net-worth individuals. Areas of expertise include domestic, corporate and international tax, indirect tax, direct and indirect tax compliance, tax litigation and tax representation. The firm also has specific expertise in investment structuring, real estate, due diligence and M&A tax advisory, corporate income tax, VAT and capital gains tax compliance.
Serbia: LeitnerLeitner is one of the leading firms of tax professionals, auditors and financial advisory experts in Central and South-Eastern Europe. Its diverse and highly specialised team is passionate about finding feasible solutions across a wide spectrum of tax issues and puts interdisciplinary, cross-border cooperation into practice every day.
Singapore: Withersworldwide has evolved into an international business that spans the US, Europe and Asia, becoming the only global law firm with a focus on private individuals and their enterprises. The firm’s dedicated tax department remains one of the leading tax divisions in Singapore and is sensitive to the cultural nuances vital to success in dealing with parties from different jurisdictions.
Slovakia: BMB Partners is an established high-end tax advisory firm offering a comprehensive and integrated range of tax consultancy and compliance services. The firm works with a variety of clients such as multinationals listed in Fortune 500, mid-market and family-owned companies, large private entities as well as high-net-worth individuals. Areas of expertise include: domestic and international tax law comprising VAT, transfer pricing issues including uni- and bilateral procedures, mobility services (cross-border taxation and social security planning of seconded employees), M&A, advisory related to tax reliefs and incentives as well as representation during tax audits, disputes and appeal procedures.
Slovenia: LeitnerLeitner is one of the leading firms of tax professionals, auditors and financial advisory experts in Central and South-Eastern Europe. Its diverse and highly specialised team is passionate about finding feasible solutions across a wide spectrum of tax issues and puts interdisciplinary, cross-border cooperation into practice every day.
South Africa: ENSafrica is Africa’s largest law firm and offers a full range of tax services. Its understanding of South Africa’s ever-changing and complex tax environment means the firm is able to offer innovative and appropriate assistance that is critical to the success of its clients’ businesses. The team’s experience in a broad range of sectors and the ability to deliver proactive and timely advice in a multitude of tax areas, including litigation and mediation, indirect, international, and personal tax, means clients truly benefit from the firm’s extensive expertise.
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South Korea: Yulchon is a full-service international law firm headquartered in Seoul, Korea. It advises on a full range of specialised practice areas, including Corporate and Finance, antitrust/competition, real estate and construction, dispute resolution, IP & technology, and labour and employment. Comprised of over 60 tax experts, Yulchon’s tax group retains an exclusive team that handles legal services on tax controversy matters for foreign enterprises investing in Korea and Korean enterprises investing overseas.
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Spain: Garrigues is the largest tax and legal services provider on the Iberian Peninsula, and advises clients locally, regionally and globally from every angle of business law.The firm’s experienced, multidisciplinary team offers clients an integral advisory service of the highest standard for all tax and legal matters, including transfer pricing, indirect taxation, local taxation, family business taxation, tax procedures, proceedings and disputes, and mergers and acquisitions.
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Sweden: Skeppsbron Skatt AB is Sweden's largest independent tax advisor with around 80 employees and offices in Stockholm, Malmö and Gothenburg. The firm is a full-service advisor, with expertise in all types of tax issues for both large and small companies. Its tax advice is independent from auditing, offering a unique alternative to the tax advice provided by accounting firms.
Switzerland: Tax Partner AG focuses on Swiss and international tax law and is recognised as a leading independent tax boutique. With a team of around 45 tax experts, the firm offers a full range of tax advice and tailored tax solutions for multi-national and national corporate clients, as well as individuals.
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UK: Alvarez & Marsal UK LLP’s team of seasoned professionals provides a range of expert tax services, including corporation tax consulting and compliance, stamp taxes, negotiations with HM Revenue & Customs, international tax planning, mergers and acquisitions (including tax due diligence), reorganisations, transfer pricing and thin capitalisation, tax efficient supply chain management, executive compensation services, capital allowances, private client services, and research and development tax credits for publicly listed and private companies.
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USA: Alvarez & Marsal LLC USA is dedicated to offering clients a choice in tax advisors free from audit-based conflicts of interest. With over 250 tax practitioners and 23 offices in the United States, A&M delivers a wide range of tax advisory consulting and compliance services for both corporate and private equity clients, including federal, international, compensation and benefits, state and local tax and transaction advisory.
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Venezuela: Taxand Venezuela provides high quality independent tax advice, delivering a broad range of tax, legal and financial advisory services. Specialist areas include international tax, corporate tax, customs and indirect tax, tax compliance and outsourcing, transfer pricing and valuations, tax services for residents and non-residents, and tax litigation.
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