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The market is still waiting to see whether Stibbe can recover from the departure of Luc de Broe and a number of other professionals to Laga this year. The firm is looking to increase the number of hires to address this.The full-service tax firm is led ... [more]

The market is still waiting to see whether Stibbe can recover from the departure of Luc de Broe and a number of other professionals to Laga this year. The firm is looking to increase the number of hires to address this.

The full-service tax firm is led by Thierry Denayer. Most of its work is transactional but they do have a sizeable presence in litigation work as well. Denayer and Giovanni Smet advised last year a large energy company on the implementation of an intragroup financing structure. This involved a hybrid profit participation loan granted by a Luxembourg group to a Belgian group company.

Other work includes advising a group of investors on setting up an acquisition structure for a Mexican target company through a Mexican trust with several Belgian companies being the trust beneficiaries, and advising Fifa on the tax exemptions promised by the Belgian and Dutch governments.

Stibbe opened an office in Luxembourg in August 2010 but did not launch a tax practice until 2011. It aims to become one of the key players in the Luxembourg legal market .Ayzo van Eysinga joined in April from Loyens & Loeff to head the practice. He ... [more]

Stibbe opened an office in Luxembourg in August 2010 but did not launch a tax practice until 2011. It aims to become one of the key players in the Luxembourg legal market .

Ayzo van Eysinga joined in April from Loyens & Loeff to head the practice. He specialises mostly in private equity and tax advice for US multinationals in relation to cross-border transactions. Paul Tulcinsky also joined this year from Linklaters. He specialises in international tax law, in particular the implementation of acquisition and financing vehicles.

Maarten de Bruin heads Stibbe's tax practice. The number of fee earners has increased to 11 this year. The focus of the practice is mainly transactional, in particular M&A, private equity, structured finance and real estate. The group has advised on ... [more]

Maarten de Bruin heads Stibbe's tax practice. The number of fee earners has increased to 11 this year. The focus of the practice is mainly transactional, in particular M&A, private equity, structured finance and real estate. The group has advised on some of the largest transactions in the Netherlands in the past year.

Partner Michael Molenaars is advising long-standing client NYSE Euronext on its proposed merger with Deutsche Börse. The group also advised on the initial public offering (IPO) by Tornier, a medical device company's, which involved a complex restructuring in advance. The group had to consider the position of majority shareholder Warburg Pincus throughout the negotiations.

Other work this year included advising ING on the disinvestment of the European activities of ING Real Estate Investment Management, and advising Ziggo on a $2 billion+ notes issuance. This matter was complicated by issues of interest deductibility. The practice also advised Fifa on the tax guarantees made by the Dutch government in their bid for the 2018/2022 World Cup.

Since the group focuses mostly on cross-border the bulk of their clients are multinationals and major financial institutions, such as Apollo Alcan, Micron Technology, Xinamo S&T Investment, Tulip Oil, Morgan Stanley, Goldman Sachs and Vereniging Aegon.