Corporate taxation

• Advice on complicated issues of Russian and international taxation
• Recommendations on tax risk management implementation and tuning
• Assistance in adaptation of the company to changes in tax legislation and practice
• Tax reviews

International taxation

• Development and implementation of efficient international holding structures
• Tax support for international activities of the company
• Review of international structures to determine tax risks and inefficiencies and elaboration of ways to optimize it
• Assistance in negotiations with tax authorities in foreign jurisdictions and receiving of tax rulings (tax ruling)

Interaction with the tax authorities and tax litigations

• Assistance in the course of audits by the tax authorities
• Elaboration of the company’s position to the claims put by the tax authorities
• Defending the company in the course of the pre-trial dispute and court hearings

Tax support in M&A deals

• Tax due diligence to understand the current tax position of the Target and reveal tax risks associated with it
• Research and implementation on the ways to mitigate tax risks identified in the course of the tax due diligence
• Review and improvement of tax aspects of the financial model of the target
• Tax support in deal structuring

Transfer pricing

• Identification of the “subject to control” deals of the company / group and development of pricing policy for such deals
• Preparation of transfer pricing studies
• Research and support in implementation of changes to the activities of the company / structure of the group to mitigate the transfer pricing risks and ease meeting the legislation requirements