Netherlands

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.

Firm overview

KC Legal is an internationally recognized and recommended firm for international tax advisory, tax reporting and tax accounting services.

KC Legal not only excels in large scale projects including international tax planning and tax reporting, but KC Legal is also equally efficient in handling the every-day tax needs of your business in the Netherlands.

Firm overview

In 2008, a small team left one of the Big Four and founded STP Tax (hereinafter: “STP” or “we”). Since its foundation in 2008, STP has become one of the leading tax boutiques in the Netherlands.

We offer an integrated range of tax advisory services (more information to be found here) that enable us to streamline and optimize our client’s tax affairs. Our strength lies in our team of nearly 30 tax specialists, and we are proud of our focus on innovation and entrepreneurship. We are a full-service tax firm, active in all tax disciplines and working in multidisciplinary teams for clients active in most sectors of the economy.

The STP Transfer Pricing practice is led by Pieter Drubbel and further consists of several experienced transfer pricing professionals of different nationalities who work closely together on transfer pricing projects involving multiple jurisdictions, multidisciplinary projects (integrated approach) and in-house roles. We serve a wide range of clients from start-ups to (listed) multinationals in all industries (ranging from tech to agricultural companies). STP’s transfer pricing specialists offer a full range of services, including value chain analysis, design, documentation (for compliance and audit), benchmarking (for audit, optimization, compliance), implementation, dispute resolution and prevention and valuations. Our holistic approach to the preparation of the company's transfer pricing strategy starts with a thorough study of the business model and strategy followed by our 360-tax approach, which means we do not only advise you from a transfer pricing perspective, but also take corporate tax and VAT into account.

More information on our transfer pricing services is to be found here.

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

Grant Thornton Netherlands is a member firm of Grant Thornton International Ltd (GTIL), one of the world's largest networks (#6) of independent accounting and consulting firms, with 56,000 professionals in over 140 countries. From nine Dutch offices, 550 professionals support our customers with advice and assistance in audit, tax and (financial) advisory issues.

In addition to our close cooperation with various Dutch teams, we work globally and together as an international team in order to ensure that our clients receive quality business advisory services, made to fit. This includes assisting our clients with the planning, reviewing and implementing of efficient (international) business structures so that they can form and coordinate their own activities and operations in the relevant countries according to their needs. In the last year our International practice has shown a growth in revenue of 20%, despite the world wide COVID-19 pandemic.

The Dutch Grant Thornton’s international tax practice serves non-Dutch corporate clients with operations, employees or entities in the Netherlands or Dutch corporations with subsidiaries or shareholders outside the Netherlands.

As part of our communication with the clients, we coordinate tax compliance through the use of a centralized tools and dashboard. This provides our client daily insight into their compliance position and determine whether they are “in control” of their compliance commitments.

We deliver world-class expertise in a way that is seamlessly connected with the unique situation of the client. We work from a solid foundation with a flexible and results-driven mentality.

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.