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Key contacts
Partner: Daan Arends
Partner: Roderik Bouwman
Partner: Jian-Cheng Ku
Quick facts
Number of advisers

18

Languages

English, Dutch

Key practice areas
General corporate tax
Indirect tax
Tax
Tax controversy
Transactional tax
Transfer pricing
Firm overview

DLA Piper provides the full range of tax services that address the challenges of international commerce and business operations. With more than 370 tax advisors in offices throughout the world, including 18 in the Netherlands, we help multinational companies address the complex challenges of international commerce and business operations as well as manage and resolve tax disputes.

We advise on a wide range of tax issues, ranging from inward and outward investment, private equity deals, structuring for corporate and real estate acquisitions and disposals, and transfer pricing planning and documentation through to executive and employee compensation packages.

Our transfer pricing team is a global operation with professionals–including lawyers, economists and certified tax advisors–who have experience in some of the most sophisticated areas of international tax and transfer pricing. Members of our Transfer Pricing team are located throughout the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. We are well positioned to help companies address their transfer pricing challenges and opportunities, both locally and globally.

The Transfer Pricing team of DLA Piper has also direct access to our global network of business lawyers, including corporate lawyers, intellectual property lawyers and litigators who are ready to add their perspective when required. In many countries, the confidentiality provided by attorney-client privilege is an additional advantage of working with us.

Key Tax practice areas

Compliance management:

  • Business model optimisation
  • Economic modelling
  • Policy design
  • IP management

Corporate tax matters:

  • Cross-border project management
  • Restructuring
  • Cost-sharing arrangements
  • APAs
  • Transactions
  • M&A
  • Financial services
  • Corporate taxes
  • Technology

Dispute resolution:

  • Audit defence
  • Audit support
  • Dispute resolution
  • Pre-litigation
  • MAPs/ADRs
  • Litigation
  • Arbitration
  • Controversy management

Tax advisory:

  • Tax consulting
  • International tax advisory
  • US Inbound

Indirect tax:

  • VAT
  • GST
  • Customs
Key transfer pricing practice areas
  • International tax planning
  • Cross-border project management
  • TP policy design
  • Business restructuring
  • Business model optimisation
  • Audit defence
  • Audit support
  • TP risk management
  • IP management
  • Cost-sharing arrangements
  • Dispute resolution
  • Litigation
  • Arbitration
  • Controversy management
Key practice contacts

Tax

 

Daan Arends

Partner

daan.arends@dlapiper.com

 

Roderik Bouwman

Partner and Global Co-Chair DLA Piper Tax Group

roderik.bouwman@dlapiper.com

 

Jian-Cheng Ku

jian-cheng.ku@dlapiper.com

Sector expertise
  • Banking
  • Construction and materials
  • Consumer goods and services
  • Energy
  • Financial services
  • Industrials
  • Insurance
  • Media
  • Real estate
  • Tech and telecoms
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Overview

DLA Piper is a full-service law firm. Services encompass inbound and outbound investments, private equity deals, structuring for corporate and real estate acquisitions, disposals, customs, supply chain planning, and indirect tax advice. Key practitioners are litigator Jian-Cheng Ku, indirect specialist Daan Arends, and transactions partner Jean Paul Dresen.  

Client feedback  

‘’Partners put in the effort to fully understand client's challenges and work to ease them"

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Tax

DLA Piper is a full-service law firm. Services encompass inbound and outbound investments, private equity deals, structuring for corporate and real estate acquisitions, disposals, customs, supply chain planning, and indirect tax advice. Key practitioners are litigator Jian-Cheng Ku, indirect specialist Daan Arends, and transactions partner Jean Paul Dresen.

The firm advised Ekaterra on the carve out of the business to CVC. It also served as counsel to Patrizia in structuring and the establishment of shareholder agreements.

Legal directors Sebastiaan Wijsman and Gabriël van Gelder departed in 2022.

Client feedback

“Work a lot with DLA on one of my bigger deals and was very nice working with them.”

New Tier 1 entrants and an expanding cohort of established players indicate that law firms are becoming increasingly credible challengers in Europe's TP market
More than 200 tier promotions reshaped this year's European rankings as several international firms strengthened their positions in key tax markets
Awards
It was another banner year for Deloitte, which picked up more awards than any other firm at a gala ceremony held at The Londoner in Leicester Square
Several factors have led to a steady transition of TP work away from traditional advisers and towards full-service law firms, DLA Piper’s new TP leader says
It continues a prolific spree of investment for the firm, after it launched in Indonesia, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and Japan in 2025
Partners are divided on Italy vs PDM D’s analytical depth, evidentiary standards, and what the judgment signals for future intra-group financing cases
ITR concludes its analysis of World Tax’s rankings for 2026 by highlighting the firms that stood out most on a global scale
Clients are facing increased TP audit scrutiny in Hungary. DLA Piper Hungary is therefore using AI and advanced analytics to augment its advice, the firm’s head of TP says
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