Tax & Financial Law
Transaction structuring, filings, audits and disputes with the revenue authorities.
Detailed overview
Tax is decided at the structuring stage, not at the filing stage. We are involved before a transaction is signed, so that the treatment is a choice rather than a consequence.
The team advises on direct and indirect tax across corporate transactions, cross-border arrangements, group reorganisations and investment structures, and prepares the documentation that supports the position taken.
When a position is challenged, we handle it end to end — audit response, assessment, appeal and, where required, litigation — with the same team that advised on the structure, so nothing has to be reconstructed from scratch.
- Transaction and holding-structure tax planning
- Corporate income tax, withholding and indirect tax advisory
- Cross-border structuring and treaty analysis
- Transfer pricing documentation and defence
- Audit, assessment and reassessment representation
- Appeals before tax tribunals and appellate authorities
- Voluntary disclosure and settlement negotiation
- Tax aspects of restructuring, sale and succession
Why you might need this service.
If one of these describes your situation, a short conversation will establish whether there is a matter worth pursuing.
A transaction is being structured and the tax cost has not been modelled.
You have received a notice of audit, assessment or demand.
A cross-border arrangement needs to withstand scrutiny.
An assessment is wrong and needs to be appealed within time.
The attorneys handling tax & financial law.
Successful defence of a contested transfer-pricing assessment
- The challenge
- The contemporaneous documentation for the earliest year was incomplete, and the comparables set the group had relied on was no longer defensible on its original basis.
- The outcome
- The assessment was substantially reduced at first appellate level and the penalty component was set aside entirely. The group's documentation process was rebuilt so the same gap could not recur.
Prior results do not guarantee or predict a similar outcome in any future matter. Every case turns on its own facts and applicable law.
“Thomas found a structuring issue in an acquisition that our own advisors had signed off on. It changed the deal price. I would not close a transaction now without putting it in front of him first.”
Before you make contact.
Submit the consultation form on this site, call the office, or email our intake address. We aim to acknowledge every enquiry within one business day and to offer an appointment within three. Where a matter is time-critical — an arrest, an injunction, a deadline that expires this week — say so in your first message and we will treat it accordingly.
A named partner or senior associate is responsible for every file and remains your point of contact throughout. Work is delegated within the team where it is efficient to do so — document review does not need partner time — but supervision does not move, and you will always know who is accountable.
Depending on the matter: hourly at the rate of the lawyer doing the work, a fixed fee for defined scopes such as documentation or a licence application, or a retainer for continuing advisory work. Whichever applies, you receive a written engagement letter setting out the basis, the rate and the estimate before any chargeable work begins.
Yes, directly, and at the first opportunity. A candid assessment early is worth considerably more than an encouraging one that changes eight months and a large invoice later. Where a case is weak we will explain why, and whether anything can be done to strengthen it.
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Speak to the tax & financial law team.
Describe what has happened in a few sentences. We will tell you whether it is a matter we should take, what it would involve, and what it would cost.
- Direct line
- +1 (212) 555-0142
- Response time
- Every enquiry acknowledged within one business day.