International Tax Brochure

At Bird & Bird we recognise that the structuring of any transaction from a tax point of view is essential to ensure that investors’ returns are maximised. Achieving this means company’s tax strategies need to be aligned to business needs. Furthermore companies need to comply with tax legislation which varies from territory to territory and to further complicate matters, is constantly changing.

At Bird & Bird we provide a finely-tuned comprehensive European tax service that is tailored to each company’s business needs so that it can minimise its tax obligations while ensuring its tax strategy is aligned to its global business needs. We don’t hide behind jargon; we help companies to cut through it by providing advice that his clear and in the language of business.

We have extensive experience in advising our institutional clients on tax efficient Pan-European funding structures, as well as acting for management teams on their investments and ratchet arrangements. For multinational companies we provide advice on cross-border M&A and joint venture transactions, as well as on financial products and the development of group tax strategies. For smaller domestic companies we provide advice on the tax issues associated with the position of company or group owners in addition to transactional and structuring tax advice for the company or group itself. 

We also provide advice on:

• Corporate transactions
• Corporate and international taxation
• Treasury products
• Tax consultancy
• Employee equity participation