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2027 Edition
General corporate tax
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Transactional tax
30 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
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Forvis Mazars
6 practice areas
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Hengeler Mueller
5 practice areas
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KPMG
7 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
4 practice areas
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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

Kirkland & Ellis is among the most prominent firms in the M&A practice area. Daniel Hiemer is a key professional at the firm. It also works on corporate reorganisations and restructuring. The Munich team is renowned for its experience in complex tax structuring work in connection with private equity and M&A transactions.

The firm recently advised an ad hoc committee of noteholders on Löwen Play committee's financial reorganisation. The team also assisted Ingenio, ,an Alpine Investors portfolio firm, on the purchase of the adviqo Group .

During the research period Michael Ehret, a partner from Allen & Overy, joined the firm.

Client feedback

“Strong technical and commercial advice. Proactive.”

World Tax data shows Matt Donnelly is moving from a Tier 3 transactional tax practice to a Tier 1 market leader, underlining Kirkland & Ellis’s pull at the top end of the market
The Netherlands-based bank was described as an ‘exemplar of total transparency’; in other news, Kirkland & Ellis made a senior tax hire in Dallas
Reckitt Benckiser is to divest its Essential Home business, which includes more than 70 brands, to private equity firm Advent International
The country’s chancellor appears to have backtracked from previous pillar two scepticism; in other news, Donald Trump threatened Russia with 100% tariffs
Spain and Poland are among the nations referred to the CJEU; in other news, Ireland plans to use its newly acquired Apple trial money to boost public spending
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