Shaul Grossman

Practice Areas

Taxation

High Net Worth

Private Client

Trusts

Corporate/M&A

Investment Funds

Real Estate

Career

Shaul Grossman is a partner at Meitar and is a member of the firm's Tax Group as well as its Private Client, Trusts & Family Wealth Group. Shaul has extensive experience in all areas of international taxation, with a particular emphasis on cross-border mergers and acquisitions, international restructuring and planning, taxation of multinational companies and controversy matters. Shaul also devotes a significant amount of his time to the firm’s private client practice. He regularly works with high-net-worth families where various family members are tax residents of different jurisdictions and advises them on international estate planning matters, establishment and restructuring of trusts, succession planning, controversy, tax compliance and related matters.

Shaul has extensive experience in handling complicated cross-border transactions. On the corporate side, he works regularly on mergers and acquisitions including structuring of the transaction, negotiation and representation of the parties and post-acquisition restructuring and has acted for target companies, multinational strategic purchasers, private equity funds and the like. On the private client side, he advises private individuals, trusts and family offices on all tax aspects of structuring their investments and operations, with the objective of obtaining the most tax-efficient solution that is easy to understand and implement and that is aligned with their preferences. He has worked extensively on trust matters and regularly cooperates with other firms in devising arrangements that benefit family members in various jurisdictions taking account multi-jurisdictional tax and other considerations. These include also pre-immigration planning and succession planning.

Shaul also regularly represents clients in tax disputes, whether in front of the Israeli tax authority, in the courts, or in mutual agreement procedures. He has successfully resolved complex disputes for multinational clients such as tax assessed upon post-acquisition restructurings, classification of intercompany transactions, and resolution of double taxation problems arising for dual nationals and trusts.

Shaul is a member of various international organizations, including the American Bar Association’s Tax Section and the International Fiscal Association. He has served as the National Tax Reporter for Israel of the International Bar Association’s Tax Section and as the Branch Reporter for Isarel in IFA conferences where he has co-authored chapters published in the IFA Cahiers. He has also authored the Israeli chapter of “Global Guide to Trusts” (edited by Jean-Marc Tirard) which provides a systematic analysis of the legal regime and tax treatment of trusts in 21 jurisdictions. He regularly lectures on areas pertaining to international taxation and structuring of global investments.