Netherlands

Firm overview

With offices in Amsterdam and London, our tax team provides clients premium tax assistance in all Benelux countries in cooperation with our Brussels and Luxembourg offices. Across the Benelux, our full-service tax groups provide pragmatic and effective advice on some of the most challenging, high-profile cases. An essential part of our approach is to collaborate with colleagues from other practice areas to provide coordinated tax advice.

When combined with the wealth of international experience present in every office, we provide a truly integrated global tax capability. We further have a strong litigation team, handling all types of cases from administrative appeals to contentious tax procedures before the lower and appellate courts.

Firm overview

With over 475 lawyers, tax advisers, civil-law notaries and business support staff in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg, AKD is a leading Benelux law firm. For its clients, the firm is the gateway from, to and in the Benelux.

Practising Dutch, Belgian and Luxembourg law, we have the size, the expertise and the experience to assist in tax matters, national and international Mergers & Acquisitions, conduct minor and major litigation, and advise on substantial projects such as the energy transition and issues concerning privacy and data security.

In 2019, AKD won the 'Law Firm of the Year: Benelux' award, conferred by leading UK publication The Lawyer. AKD also received the award in 2016 and 2018.

Firm overview

DLA Piper provides the full range of tax services that address the challenges of international commerce and business operations. With more than 370 tax advisors in offices throughout the world, including 18 in the Netherlands, we help multinational companies address the complex challenges of international commerce and business operations as well as manage and resolve tax disputes.

We advise on a wide range of tax issues, ranging from inward and outward investment, private equity deals, structuring for corporate and real estate acquisitions and disposals, and transfer pricing planning and documentation through to executive and employee compensation packages.

Our transfer pricing team is a global operation with professionals–including lawyers, economists and certified tax advisors–who have experience in some of the most sophisticated areas of international tax and transfer pricing. Members of our Transfer Pricing team are located throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. We are well positioned to help companies address their transfer pricing challenges and opportunities, both locally and globally.

The Transfer Pricing team of DLA Piper has also direct access to our global network of business lawyers, including corporate lawyers, intellectual property lawyers and litigators who are ready to add their perspective when required. In many countries, the confidentiality provided by attorney-client privilege is an additional advantage of working with us.

Firm overview

With more than 70 partners and around 800 professionals, Meijburg & Co has one of the biggest tax & legal practices in the Netherlands. Clients include Fortune 500 companies, multinational corporations, various funds and financial institutions. The firm's key fields include the financial services, energy, pharmaceuticals, electronics and chemical industries.

Since 2016, Meijburg Legal has advised and supported businesses in the field of business tax law. Meijburg Legal and Meijburg & Co’s integrated working method offers legal and tax solutions under one roof combined with in-house notarial implementation. This provides our clients with added value.

The Dutch GTPS practice, led by Jeroen Dijkman, is part of Meijburg & Co, KPMG's tax member firm in the Netherlands. Five partners and approximately 60 transfer pricing professionals of different nationalities work closely with corporate income tax, customs, VAT and other tax specialists and with our KPMG GTPS colleagues worldwide.

As part of KPMG’s Global Transfer Pricing Services (GTPS), Meijburg & Co's transfer pricing experts offer a full range of services, including value chain management reviews, transfer pricing documentation and compliance services, benchmarking, operational transfer pricing and implementation, valuation analyses and other economic tax advisory services, assistance in obtaining bilateral and unilateral advance pricing agreements, competent authority matters, tax audits and tax litigation.

Meijburg&Co’s transfer pricing experts have a wide range of industry experience and are recognized for their robust technical expertise and experience.