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2026 Edition
General corporate tax
Tier 1
43 firms ranked
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Arsene Taxand
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Bredin Prat
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CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats
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Deloitte Société d’Avocats
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EY
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Baker McKenzie
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Jeantet
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PwC Société d'Avocats
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Sullivan & Cromwell
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A&O Shearman
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August & Debouzy
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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
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Clifford Chance
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DLA Piper
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Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier
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Dentons
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Fidal
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Freshfields
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Gide Loyrette Nouel
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LPA Law
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Latham & Watkins
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Linklaters
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Mayer Brown
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Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
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Racine
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
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Tier 4

Ashurst Perkins Coie
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Cabinet Turot
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DS Avocats
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De Pardieu Brocas Maffei
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Hogan Lovells Cadwalader
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Jones Day
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McDermott Will & Schulte
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Valoris Avocats
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White & Case
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Tier 5

Arkwood
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Dechert
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Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
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HPML
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Kirkland & Ellis
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Philippe Derouin
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Willkie Farr & Gallagher
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Eptalex
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Tax controversy
Tier 3
22 firms ranked
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Baker McKenzie
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Bredin Prat
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CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats
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Cabinet Turot
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Deloitte Société d’Avocats
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Jeantet
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Mayer Brown
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Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
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Arkwood
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Arsene Taxand
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DLA Piper
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Dentons
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EY
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Freshfields
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Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
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Paul Hastings
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PwC Société d'Avocats
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Racine
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DS Avocats
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Valoris Avocats
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Eptalex
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LPA Law
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Transactional tax
Tier 3
32 firms ranked
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Arsene Taxand
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Bredin Prat
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CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats
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Freshfields
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Mayer Brown
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Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
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Baker McKenzie
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DLA Piper
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Dechert
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Deloitte Société d’Avocats
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Dentons
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Kirkland & Ellis
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LPA Law
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Lacourte Raquin Tatar
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Paul Hastings
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Clifford Chance
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EY
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Gibson Dunn & Crutcher
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Joffe & Associés
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Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe
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Racine
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White & Case
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Addleshaw Goddard
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Arkwood
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Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
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Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier
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Jeantet
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King & Spalding
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McDermott Will & Schulte
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Steering Legal
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Valoris Avocats
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Chammas & Marcheteau
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Transfer pricing
Tier 1
23 firms ranked
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Arsene Taxand
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Baker McKenzie
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CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats
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Deloitte Société d’Avocats
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EY
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Fidal
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PwC Société d'Avocats
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Grant Thornton Société d’Avocats
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KPMG Avocats
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&Co Advisory
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August & Debouzy
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Bredin Prat
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DLA Piper
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DS Avocats
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Dentons
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Forvis Mazars
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Freshfields
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LPA Law
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LexCase
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Mayer Brown
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TPHC Associés
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Cara Avocats
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Sullivan & Cromwell
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EY
Linked Reviews
Tax

The Big Four firm has one of the largest tax departments offering a full-tax service, covering areas such as strategic tax planning, dispute resolution, transactional tax, indirect, private client and more. Managing partner Lionel Benant leads the tax practice, which is supported by tax partners heading their separate tax departments. From September 2022 to March 2023, the firm recruited several tax partners in the form of Arnaud Sage, Maxim Maximov, Elfie Ossard-Quintaine, and Chaïd Dali-Ali. On the other hand, tax partners Benoit Gabelle, Jean Baptiste Redor, and Alexis Popov departed the firm in June 2022 and the latter in December 2022.

Tax advisers should revisit India secondment arrangements after the EY US ruling strengthened the Centrica precedent and raised fresh withholding concerns
The ability of tax authorities to receive and analyse data is becoming ‘quite advanced’, warns Stuart Lang, head of EY’s compliance co-sourcing solution
Ethics seems to be playing a subservient role to an entitlement culture borne out of a pervasive ‘revenue at all costs’ mentality at the big four
It continues a prolific spree of investment for the firm, after it launched in Indonesia, Thailand, Saudi Arabia and Japan in 2025
Following Richard Houston’s switch to the newly formed Deloitte EMEA, Graves has the opportunity to bring Deloitte’s tax practice up to speed with its rivals
New reforms represent the most seismic shift in Canadian TP legislation since its enactment and a clear inflection point for MNEs, ITR has heard
As recent surveys suggest a disconnect between AI adoption and employee engagement, the big four risk digging themselves into a strategic hole
Partners are divided on Italy vs PDM D’s analytical depth, evidentiary standards, and what the judgment signals for future intra-group financing cases
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