The European Tax Awards have taken place annually since 2005
and aim to recognise the leading international tax
professionals in the EMEA region.
Aside from the national awards in more than 27
jurisdictions, there are also regional prizes for indirect tax,
transfer pricing, tax disputes and tax work in 11 deal
categories, including capital markets, energy and private
equity.
The awards will be presented during a gala dinner at the
Savoy Hotel in London on Thursday, May 17, 2018.
If you would like to attend please contact: Melanie Petch
(mpetch@euromoneyplc.com,
+44 207 779 8836)
While very effort has been made to include every firm that
worked on any of the tax and legal aspects of the shortlisted
deals, but if your firm was omitted please contact Sonja Caymaz
(sonja.caymaz@euromoneyplc.com).
National Tax and Transfer Pricing Firms of the Year
Austria Tax Firm of the Year
bpv Hügel Rechtsanwälte
Deloitte
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
ICON
Rödl & Partner
Austria Transfer Pricing Firm of the
Year
bpv Hügel Rechtsanwälte
Deloitte
Feshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
ICON
TPA
Baltic States Tax Firm of the Year
Cobalt
Deloitte
Sorainen
Baltic States Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Deloitte
Sorainen
Belgium Tax Firm of the Year
Allen & Overy
Baker McKenzie
Clifford Chance
Deloitte
Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick
Linklaters
Belgium Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Aptis Global
Baker McKenzie
Deloitte
Liedekerke Wolters Waelbroeck Kirkpatrick
T/A Economics
Central and Eastern Europe Tax Firm of the Year
Deloitte
Dentons
DLA Piper
Central and Eastern Europe Transfer Pricing Firm of the
Year
Deloitte
EY Bulgaria
EY Romania
TPS
Cyprus Tax Firm of the Year
Deloitte
Eurofast, Taxand Cyprus
EY Cyprus
Denmark Tax Firm of the Year
Deloitte
Plesner
Denmark Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Deloitte
EY Denmark
Finland Tax Firm of the Year
Alder & Sound
Deloitte
DLA Piper
EY Finland
Roschier
Finland Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Alder & Sound
Deloitte
EY Finland
France Tax Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Bredin Prat
Clifford Chance
(Taj) Deloitte
Dentons
Mayer Brown
France Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
EY Société d’Avocats
Taj (Deloitte)
Germany Tax Firm of the Year
Clifford Chance
Dentons
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Hengeler Mueller
Hogan Lovells
Mayer Brown
Noerr
WTS Germany
Germany Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Deloitte
NERA Consulting
PwC
TaxID Steuerberatung / Quantera Global
WTS Germany
Greece Tax Firm of the Year
Deloitte
EY Greece
Zepos & Yannopoulos, Taxand Greece
Greece Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Deloitte
EY Greece
Zepos & Yannopoulos
Hungary Tax Firm of the Year
Deloitte
DLA Piper
EY Hungary
Hegymegi-Barakonyi (Baker McKenzie)
OrienTax
WTS
Hungary Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Deloitte
DLA Piper
EY Hungary
OrienTax
Ireland Tax Firm of the Year
A&L Goodbody
Deloitte
Maples and Calder
Matheson
Ireland Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Deloitte
Matheson
Italy Tax Firm of the Year
Allen & Overy
Baker McKenzie
BonelliErede
Chiomenti Studio Legale
Clifford Chance
Valente Associati GEB Partners/Crowe Valente
Maisto e Associati
Tremonti Romagnoli Piccardi e Associati
Italy Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
BonelliErede
Valente Associati GEB Partners/Crowe Valente
DLA Piper
Ludovici Piccone & Partners
Maisto e Associati
Studio Tributario e Societario (Deloitte)
Quantera Global
Luxembourg Tax Firm of the Year
Allen & Overy
Arendt & Medernach
Baker McKenzie
Deloitte
Dentons
DLA Piper
Hogan Lovells
Van Campen Liem
Luxembourg Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Arendt & Medernach
Baker McKenzie
Deloitte
Dentons
EY Luxembourg
T/A Economics
Netherlands Tax Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Clifford Chance
Deloitte
Dentons
DLA Piper
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Stibbe
Taxand Netherlands
Netherlands Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Deloitte
DLA Piper
Embridge
T/A Economics
Taxand Netherlands
Norway Tax Firm of the Year
Deloitte
EY Norway
PwC
Norway Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Deloitte
EY Norway
PwC
Poland Tax Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie Krzyżowski i Wspolnicy
Crido Taxand, Taxand Poland
Dentons
DLA Piper
Hogan Lovells
KZP
MDDP
Wardyński & Partners
Poland Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Crido Taxand
Deloitte
KZP
MDDP
Portugal Tax Firm of the Year
Cuatrecasas
DLA Piper
EY Portugal
Garrigues, Taxand Portugal
JCG Advogados
PLMJ
PwC
Vieira de Almeida
Portugal Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baker Tilly
Deloitte
EY Portugal
PwC Portugal
Russia Tax Firm of the Year
Althaus Group
Baker McKenzie
Clifford Chance
Deloitte
Dentons
Bryan Cave Leighton Painser
KPMG Russia
PwC
Russia Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Deloitte
EY Russia
KPMG Russia
PwC
South Africa Tax of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Deloitte
South Africa Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year:
Deloitte
KPMG South Africa
Spain Tax Firm of the Year
Clifford Chance
Cuatrecasas
Deloitte
Dentons
DLA Piper
EY Abogados
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Uria Menéndez
Spain Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Deloitte
EY Abogados
Garrigues, Taxand Spain
Sweden Tax Firm of the Year
Deloitte
EY Sweden
KPMG AB
Sweden Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Deloitte
EY Sweden
KPMG AB
Switzerland Tax Firm of the Year
Deloitte
Tax Partner, Taxand Switzerland
Switzerland Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Deloitte
Tax Partner, Taxand Switzerland
Turkey Tax Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Centrum Auditing
Pekin & Pekin Law Firm
White & Case
Turkey Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Centrum Consulting
PwC
UK Tax Firm of the Year
Allen & Overy
Baker McKenzie
Clifford Chance
DLA Piper
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Simmons & Simmons
Travers Smith
Weil Gotshal & Manges
UK Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
DLA Piper
Grant Thornton
Ukraine Tax Firm of the Year
Aequo
Avellum
Dentons
DLA Piper
EY Ukraine
PwC
WTS Consulting / KM Partners
Ukraine Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Avellum
Baker McKenzie
DLA Piper
EBS
EUCON
EY Ukraine
WTS Consulting / KM Partners
PWC
Regional and Deal Awards Shortlists
Africa Tax Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Deloitte
RLA Angola
PwC Angola
Africa Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Deloitte
KPMG South Africa
PwC
GCC Tax Firm of the Year
Advaita Legal
DLA Piper
SKP Dubai
European Banking Tax Deal of the Year
- Atlas Mara financing agreement with Fairfax Africa
Holdings: Slaughter and May
- Banco Popular acquisition by Santander: Baker
McKenzie; Arcano; Pedro Pérez-Llorca
- Capital increase and loyalty bonds of Banco
Santander: Uria Menéndez; Linklaters
- Chrysaor Holdings acquisition of a diversified North
Sea oil & gas portfolio from Shell: Debevoise &
Plimpton; Dechert; White & Case
- Convertible bond issued by Volcan Holding to fund
Anglo American stake acqusition: Allen & Overy;
Costas Tsielepis & Co; Harneys; Talwar Thakore &
Associates; White & Case
- Merger of Raiffeisen Zentralbank Oesterreich &
Raiffeisen Bank International: bpv Hügel
Rechtsanwälte; Schönherr
- Quad Gas - financing of National Grid
acquisition: Clifford Chance; CMS Cameron McKenna;
Linklaters; Addleshaw Goddard; DLA Piper; Irwin Mitchell;
Eversheds
- Sale of Novo Banco: Vieria de Almeida; Weil
Gotshal & Manges; DLA Piper
- Securitisation of consumer loans receivables,
BNP Paribas London and UniCredit Bank London: Hogan
Lovells; Clifford Chance
European Capital Markets Tax Deal of the Year
- British American Tobacco bond issue / EMTN
programme: Stibbe; Davis Polk & Wardwell;
Allen & Overy; Cravath Swaine & Moore;
Linklaters
- Convertible bond issued by Volcan Holding to fund
Anglo American stake acqusition: Allen & Overy;
Costas Tsielepis & Co; Harneys; Talwar Thakore &
Associates; White & Case
- IHS Towers high-yield bond issue: Stibbe; Latham
& Watkins; White & Case
- Issue of Ukrainian sovereign Eurobonds: Avellum;
Sayenko Kharenko; Latham & Watkins; White & Case
- Merger of Raiffeisen Zentralbank Österreich with
the listed RBI: Bvp-Huegel; Schönherr
- Play Communications IPO: Loyens & Loeff;
Latham & Watkins; DLA Piper; White & Case
- Steinhoff International €800 million bond:
Stibbe; Gleiss Lutz; Wolf Theiss; Clifford Chance
- UniCredit €30 billion US debt issuance programme:
Clifford Chance; Latham & Watkins
European Consumer Products Tax Deal of the Year
- Acquisition by ICU Medical of Pfizer's global
infusion therapy business: Baker McKenzie; Latham &
Watkins; Vieira de Almeida
- Acquisition of Burger King’s UK master
franchise: Travers Smith; Parthenon EY; Deloitte; KPMG;
Macfarlanes
- Clayton Dubilier & Rice JV and acquisition of BUT
Group: Clifford Chance; Mayer Brown
- Cobepa on the acquisition of the HG Group:
Clifford Chance; De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek; Van
Doorne
- Groupe Arnault purchase in Christian Dior and Hermes
shares and subsequent sale of Christian Dior Couture to
LVMH: Bredin Prat
- Michael Kors cash acquisition of Jimmy Choo:
Slaughter and May; PwC; Paul Weiss, Rifkind Wharton &
Garrison
- Natura Cosméticos acquisition of The Body
Shop: Stibbe; Baker McKenzie; Davis Polk & Wardwell;
Linklaters; Pinheiro Neto Advogados; White & Case
- Patent box ruling for Valentino: BonelliErede;
VVA
- Staples’ European business sale to
Cerberus Capital Management: Clifford Chance; Kirkland
& Ellis; Linklaters
European Energy Tax Deal of the Year
- Agreement and Protocol between an African Ministry of
Finance and the oil industry: Aupec, RLA,
Vieira de Almeida
- Acquisition of EDF assets by PGE: DLA
Piper; White & Case; Dentons; PwC
- Acquisition of Generg Expansão: Vieira de
Almeida; AAA – Advogados
- Carlyle Group acquisition of Atotech from Total:
Stibbe; Scotto & Associes; Freshfields Bruckhaus
Deringer; Latham & Watkins; Osler Hoskin &
Harcourt
- Chrysaor Holdings acquisition of a diversified North Sea
oil & gas portfolio from Shell: Debevoise & Plimpton;
Dechert; White & Case
- Ensco acquisition of Atwood Oceanics: Slaughter
and May; Latham & Watkins
- GE sale water division to SUEZ: Conyers Dill
& Pearman; Creel Garcia-Cuellar; Aiza y Enriquez; Jones
Day; Trilegal; Weil Gotshal & Manges; Allen & Overy;
Latham & Watkins; Stibbe; Baker McKenzie; Davis Polk
& Wardwell; IndusLaw; Luthra & Luthra Law Offices;
White & Case
- INEOS acquisition of DONG Energy (Orsted) oil &
gas business: Slaughter and May; KPMG; Moalem Weitemeyer
Bendtsen; Thommessen; Kromann Reumert
- Macquarie acquisition 50% Oiltanking Odfjell Terminal
Singapore: Stibbe; Wikborg Rein & Co; De Brauw Blackstone
Westbroek; Allen & Gledhill; Thommessen
- Saudi Aramco buys stake in Rotterdam oil terminal
from Gunvor: Taxand Netherlands; Allen & Overy
European Financial Services Tax Deal of the Year
- Acquisition of Source Holdings: Simmons &
Simmons; Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer; Travers Smith;
Linklaters; Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner; Seward & Kissel;
William Fry; Weidmann Bornhauser
- Barclays Income contingent student loans
securitisation: Weil Gotshal & Manges; Hogan
Lovells
- Convertible bond issued by Volcan Holding to fund
Anglo American stake acqusition: Allen & Overy;
Costas Tsielepis & Co; Harneys; Talwar Thakore &
Associates; White & Case
- Evora Finance securitisation: Vieira de Almeida;
Sociedade de Advogados; Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe;
Linklaters
- GE Capital – Sale of GE Money Bank and other
subsidiaries: Clifford Chance; Linklaters; Schulte Roth
& Zabel
- Merger of CACEIS Bank Luxembourg with CACEIS Bank
Germany – CBM: Clifford Chance
- NN Group & ASR sale to Unilever: Stibbe;
Linklaters; De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek
- PSA Group on the acquisition of General Motors'
financial activities in Europe: Bredin Prat; Hengeler
Mueller; Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton;
Linklaters
- RSA Insurance Group disposal to Enstar:
Slaughter and May; Norton Rose Fulbright
- Standard Life merger with Aberdeen Asset
Management: Slaughter and May, Freshfields Bruckhaus
& Deringer; Maclay Murray & Spens
European Joint Ventures Tax Deal of the Year
- AP Första JV with Elo Mutual Pension Insurance
and Trevian Asset Management: DLA Piper; Roschier;
Sidley Austin; Merilampi
- Casino and DIA JV: Baker McKenzie
- Centrica JV with Bayerngas Norge:
- LV= joint venture with Allianz (UK): Clifford
Chance; Allen & Overy
- Partnership between Heineken and Sligro Food for beer
and cider logistics: Stibbe; Houthoff
- Rhône Capital JV real estate fund structure
with WeWork: Stibbe; Stikeman Elliott; Willkie Farr
& Gallagher; Simpson Thacher & Bartlett; Macfarlanes;
Gibson Dunn & Crutcher; McCarthy Tétrault
- Upstream JV between Repsol and Gazprom Neft:
Baker McKenzie
European Media and Entertainment Tax Deal of the Year
- Advent International’s Acquisition of
Williams Lea Tag: Weil Gotshal & Manges; EY;
Dentons
- Bertelsmann acquisition of 22% stake in Penguin
Random House: Slaughter and May; Davis Polk &
Wardwell
- Cimpress on the sale of Albelli to Gilde Buy Out
Partners: Clifford Chance; Stibbe; Lexence
- ITV Studios' acquisition of majority stake in
Cattleya: Clifford Chance
- LeoVegas acquisition of Royal Panda: Avanzia
Taxand; Taxand Netherlands; Wiggin
- Warner Music Group acquisition of Spinnin’
Records: Stibbe: Houthoff
European M&A Tax Deal of the Year
- Actelion cash offer by Johnson & Johnson:
Niederer Kraft Frey; Slaughter and May; Wachtell
Lipton Rosen & Katz
- Carlyle Group acquisition of Atotech from Total:
Stibbe; Atotech Scotto & Associes; Freshfields Bruckhaus
Deringer; Latham Watkins; Osler Hoskin & Harcourt
- Chrysaor Holdings acquisition of a diversified North
Sea oil & gas portfolio from Shell: Debevoise;
Dechert; White & Case
- Emerson Electrics’ acquisition of
Pentair’s valves and controls business:
Baker McKenzie; Allen & Overy
- GE Capital – Sale of GE Money Bank and other
subsidiaries to Cerberus Capital Management: Clifford
Chance; Linklaters; Schulte Roth & Zabel
- IFM Investors acquisition of 40% equity interest in
Mersin International Port from Akfen Holding: White
& Case; GKC Partners
- Intesa Sanpaolo S.p.A rescue of Veneto Bank:
Tremonti Romagnoli Piccardi e Associati
- PSA Group acquisition of Opel / Vauxhall's automotive
activities from General Motor: Bredin Prat; Hengeler
Mueller; Linklaters; Cleary Gottlieb Steen &
Hamilton
- Sale of bridge bank Novo Banco to Lone Star
Funds: Vieira de Almeida; Weil Gotshal & Manges; DLA
Piper
- Wood Group takeover of Amec Foster Wheeler:
Slaughter and May; Linklaters; EY
European Private Equity Tax Deal of the Year
- Acquisition of an 85% stake in the Gdansk Transport
Company: Hogan Lovells; Norton Rose Fulbright; CMS; DLA
Piper
- Advent International’s Acquisition
Industrial Parts Holding; Weil Gotshal & Manges; EY;
KPMG
- Brewdog investment by TSG Consumer Partners: DLA
Piper; Ropes & Gray
- Chrysaor Holdings acquisition of a diversified North
Sea oil & gas portfolio from Shell: Debevoise &
Plimpton; Dechert; White & Case
- GE Capital - Sale of GE Money Bank and other
subsidiaries to Cerberus: Clifford Chance; Linklaters;
Schulte Roth & Zabel
- Thames Water – AP1, AP3 and OMERS Private
Equity from AMP Capital: Stibbe; Debevoise &
Plimpton; Latham & Watkins; Weil Gotshal & Manges;
Roschier; Clifford Chance; Taylor Wessing
- Sale of bridge bank Novo Banco to Lone Star
Funds: Vieira de Almeida; DLA Piper; Weil Gotshal &
Manges
- Sale of Jac Travel to Webjet: Mayer Brown; DLA
Piper
- Värde Partners sale of NewDay to Cinven and CVC
Capital Partners: Slaughter and May; Clifford
Chance
- Kohlberg acquires CIBT Global from ABRY
Partners: Taxand Netherlands; Alvarez &
Marsal Taxand; Flick Gocke Schaumburg, Taxand Germany; Ropes
& Gray
European Tax Restructuring Deal of the Year
- Abengoa Restructuring: Clifford Chance; Mijares
Angoitia Cortés y Fuentes, Taxand Mexico; Linklaters;
Santamarina y Steta; Uria Menéndez; DLA Piper;
Gomez-Acebo & Pombo; Sullivan & Cromwell; Loyens
& Loeff
- DTEK restructuring of notes & VR Capital
restructuring facility agreements: Stibbe; Shearman
& Sterling; Latham & Watkins
- Frigoglass rescue restructuring group capital, bank
and bond debt: Allen & Overy; Clifford Chance; Akin
Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld; Shearman & Sterling;
Karatzas & Partners; Koutalidis; Kyriakides Georgopoulos;
Stibbe
- LME - Novo Banco tender offer and consent
solicitation process: Vieira de
Almeida; Linklaters; Davis Polk & Wardwell; Garrigues,
Taxand Portugal
- Merger of CACEIS Bank Luxembourg with CACEIS Bank
Germany – CBM: Clifford Chance
- Merger of Raiffeisen Zentralbank Oesterreich &
Raiffeisen Bank International: bpv Hügel
Rechtsanwälte; Schönherr
- Premier Oil restructuring: Slaughter and
May; Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld
- Restructuring proceedings of Groupe Flo: Bredin
Prat; Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier; AyacheSalama
- The Co-operative Bank restructuring: Clifford
Chance; Paul Hastings
European Telecommunications and Technology Tax Deal of the
Year
- Emerson Electric’s acquisition of
Pentair’s valves & controls business:
Baker McKenzie; Allen & Overy
- Equinix purchase of a data centre from IO,
acquisition of Zenium’s data centre: Carey
Olsen; Kolcuoglu Demirkan Koçakli; Slaughter and
May
- IPO Play Communications: Loyens & Loeff;
Latham Watkins; DLA Piper; White & Case
- McKinsey acquisition of Aberkyn: Stibbe; De
Brauw Blackstone Westbroek; KPMG
- McLaren Group combination: Clifford Chance;
Hogan Lovells; Herbert Smith Freehills; Latham & Watkins;
Deloitte; KPMG; PwC
- Warner Music Group acquisition of
Spinnin’ Records: Stibbe; Houthoff
- Wright Medical acquisition of IMASCAP SAS:
Shearman & Sterling; Stibbe; LexCase; Simmons &
Simmons
European In-house Team of the Year - Direct Tax
Nomad Foods
Zalando
European In-house Team of the Year – Transfer
Pricing
Coface
Dassault Systemes
Sandvik
Syngenta
Zalando
Best Newcomer
Aequo
Aptis Global
Embridge
Rödl & Partner International
T/A Economics
SKP Business Consulting UAE
European Tax Disputes Firm of the Year
Avellum
Baker McKenzie
Best Friends Tax Network
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
Hogan Lovells
Ludovici Piccone & Partners
Matheson
Pepeliaev, Taxand Russia
PLMJ
Vieira de Almeida
European Court of Justice Firm of the Year - Indirect
Tax
Baker McKenzie
EY Bulgaria
MDDP
European Tax Innovator Firm of the Year
Aibidia
Avalara
Innovate Tax
Radu si Asociatii SPRL
Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan
RLA
Vieira de Almeida
Zanders Inside
European Tax Technology Firm of the Year
Aibidia
Avalara
Bearing Point
Deloitte
WTS Germany
European Tax Policy Firm of the Year
Avellum
Best Friends Tax Network
Valente Associati GEB Partners/Crowe Valente
Radu si Asociatii SPRL
PwC Russia
Vieira de Almeida
European Tax Compliance & Reporting Firm of the
Year
Althaus Consulting
Avalara
Deloitte
Doradztwo Podatkowe WTS&SAJA
EY Bulgaria
EY
Tax Partner, Taxand Switzerland
WTS Klient Hungary
European Indirect Tax Firm of the Year
Avellum
Baker McKenzie
Deloitte
DLA Piper
EY Abogados Spain
Hogan Lovells
Tax Partner AG, Taxand Switzerland
WTS Global
European Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Deloitte
DLA Piper
EY
KPMG
PWC
WTS Global
European Tax Firm of the Year
Baker McKenzie
Clifford Chance
Deloitte
DLA Piper
EY
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer
KPMG
PwC