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The head of Mayer Brown's tax team is Astrid Pieron, who is also a member of the EU Joint Transfer Pricing Forum.The team is particularly strong on transfer pricing. Pieron and Charles-Albert Helleputte advised BSB on transfer pricing strategy in addition ... [more]

The head of Mayer Brown's tax team is Astrid Pieron, who is also a member of the EU Joint Transfer Pricing Forum.

The team is particularly strong on transfer pricing. Pieron and Charles-Albert Helleputte advised BSB on transfer pricing strategy in addition to preparing documentation for Kerneos and devising structures for Materis Peintures with regard to French transfer pricing requirements.

Pieron has also been active in corporate matters, advising Numericable in the carve-out of its Belgian and Luxembourg entities and assisting Velsicol in a restructuring of its activities in the chemicals sector.

Contentious work was also steady for the practice this year, with Pieron advising a confidential Belgian holding company in proceedings before the Italian courts regarding a withholding tax claim.

Mayer Brown's main area of focus is in M&A, corporate tax and individual tax. The team includes five partners and eight fee earners and is under the leadership of Laurent Borey."I can speak for the tax department of Mayer Brown in Paris, which is a top-notch ... [more]

Mayer Brown's main area of focus is in M&A, corporate tax and individual tax. The team includes five partners and eight fee earners and is under the leadership of Laurent Borey.

"I can speak for the tax department of Mayer Brown in Paris, which is a top-notch team for all transactional operations," said a client. "They combine a high degree of technical skills and understanding of the deals' mechanisms that provide a huge value to the client, tax or non-tax experts, and is hardly found in other firms," he adds.

In the first quarter of 2012 the tax team assisted an Italian client in the management of VAT issues relating to a stock of steel plates located in France, for which proper VAT procedures were not carried out initially.

Benjamin Homo is continuing to advise individuals on a tax audit in connection with the LBO of Editis, the publishing company. Homo and Borey are both praised by a client who said: "The combination of Laurent Borey and Benjamin Homo works perfectly well as those two are really creating much more value than the sum of the parts."