Strengths of Baker & McKenzie's tax practice in London include transfer pricing and economics, tax and reorganisation, cross-border transactional and M&A work, supply chain and business re-engineering and VAT advice. The practice consists of lawyers, ...
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Strengths of Baker & McKenzie's tax practice in London include transfer pricing and economics, tax and reorganisation, cross-border transactional and M&A work, supply chain and business re-engineering and VAT advice. The practice consists of lawyers, accountants, VAT specialists, economists and analysts, and can tap into a global network of more than 600 tax advisers. The group also has won a reputation for its climate change practice, which is headed by James macLachlan, a direct tax practioner, and Mark Delaney, an indirect tax adviser, who has been involved in numerous carbon market transactions. Advocacy is another area that the advisers have done much work in. John Fairley and macLachlan, for example, have advised the 100 Group of finance directors on tax reform issues. Advice on post-acquisition restructuring, IP migration, permanent establishment risk and thin capitalisation are features of the transfer pricing team. Mark Agnew joined the practice this year from PricewaterhouseCoopers as a senior VAT consultant. Two economists left and Stephane Pantelidaki, an assistant director in the transfer pricing practice, joined KPMG as an associate partner.
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