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2026 Edition
General corporate tax
Tier 4
45 firms ranked
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Tier 1

Deloitte
7 practice areas
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EY
7 practice areas
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Flick Gocke Schaumburg
6 practice areas
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Freshfields
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KPMG
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Kirkland & Ellis
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PwC
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
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Tier 2

A&O Shearman
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Baker McKenzie
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Bird & Bird
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Bödecker Ernst & Partner
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DLA Piper
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Eversheds Sutherland
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Forvis Mazars
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Gleiss Lutz
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Hengeler Mueller
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King & Spalding
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Linklaters
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Oppenhoff & Partner
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Poellath
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WTS
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Tier 3

Baker Tilly
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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
2 practice areas
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Clifford Chance
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Dentons
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Ebner Stolz
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Grant Thornton
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Latham & Watkins
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Mayer Brown
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McDermott Will & Schulte
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Milbank
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Noerr
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White & Case
4 practice areas
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Tier 4

BDO Deutsche Warentreuhand
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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
5 practice areas
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CMS Hasche Sigle
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GLNS
3 practice areas
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Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
5 practice areas
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Lemaitre Professionals LP TAX
6 practice areas
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Luther
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O & R Oppenhoff & Rädler
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Simmons & Simmons
5 practice areas
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Streck Mack Schwedhelm
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Watson Farley & Williams
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Tax controversy
Tier 3
22 firms ranked
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Deloitte
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Flick Gocke Schaumburg
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McDermott Will & Schulte
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Tier 2

Baker McKenzie
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DLA Piper
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Dentons
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EY
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Eversheds Sutherland
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Forvis Mazars
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Freshfields
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Hengeler Mueller
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KMLZ
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KPMG
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Linklaters
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Oppenhoff & Partner
6 practice areas
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PwC
7 practice areas
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
5 practice areas
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WTS
6 practice areas
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Tier 3

Bird & Bird
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CMS Hasche Sigle
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GLNS
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O & R Oppenhoff & Rädler
3 practice areas
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Transactional tax
Tier 3
29 firms ranked
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White & Case
4 practice areas
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Tier 1

Baker McKenzie
6 practice areas
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Bödecker Ernst & Partner
5 practice areas
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DLA Piper
6 practice areas
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Deloitte
7 practice areas
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Flick Gocke Schaumburg
6 practice areas
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Freshfields
6 practice areas
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Gleiss Lutz
5 practice areas
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Kirkland & Ellis
5 practice areas
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Poellath
5 practice areas
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
5 practice areas
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Tier 2

A&O Shearman
5 practice areas
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Bird & Bird
5 practice areas
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Clifford Chance
6 practice areas
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Dentons
6 practice areas
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EY
7 practice areas
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Eversheds Sutherland
6 practice areas
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Forvis Mazars
6 practice areas
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Hengeler Mueller
5 practice areas
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Latham & Watkins
5 practice areas
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Linklaters
5 practice areas
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Mayer Brown
5 practice areas
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Oppenhoff & Partner
6 practice areas
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PwC
7 practice areas
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WTS
6 practice areas
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Tier 3

CMS Hasche Sigle
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King & Spalding
3 practice areas
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Lemaitre Professionals LP TAX
6 practice areas
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Milbank
5 practice areas
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Linked Reviews
Tax

CMS provides comprehensive advice on all national and international tax issues, focusing on practice areas such as transactions, real estate, corporate tax, litigation, private client, investment tax, tax structuring, compliance and indirect tax. The team is comprised of 36 tax experts, including eleven partners, led by heads of practice Björn Demuth and Angelika Thies. Industry sector strengths of the tax team include energy, healthcare, biotechnology, telecommunications and IT.

The firm advised on the merger of ads-tec energy with a European sustainable growth acquisition corporation. The team also provided comprehensive tax guidance to AllianzGI in connection with its participation in the Capital Four debt fund.

Client feedback

“Clarity. Responsiveness. Dedication. Partner time.”

“Responsiveness, quality, clarity.”

“CMS is really client and solution oriented, always well analysed and explained.”

Almost three-quarters of surveyed tax professionals are concerned about inaccurate AI outputs; in other news, Dentons hired a partner from CMS to lead its Belgian tax team
Long-running, high-value and complex enquiries are a significant reason for HM Revenue and Customs’s increased TP yield, experts suggest
Companies that master the DEMPE analysis of their intangibles stand to benefit from a greater economic return, writes Mohamed Haj Taieb, partner at CMS France
Vittoria Segre, partner at CMS Italy, reviews a range of TP topics discussed at the event, including financial transaction audits and permanent establishment issues
On a panel of advisers and tax authority representatives from a range of European jurisdictions, financial transactions were pinpointed as a key TP audit focus
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