Being one of the Firm's key practices, we advise our clients on tax aspects in Russian and cross-border deals, provide on-going tax advice to clients' businesses and protect them in disputes with tax authorities.
We rely on skills and knowledge obtained abroad, deep insight into Russian specifics and court practice, and international client service standards.
Our lawyers are innovative and capable of offering ambitious and outside-the-box solutions. Importantly, they are ready to implement these solutions and, if needed, to protect them before any authority. Inside our practice, there is no division into different types of taxes. This helps each professional comprehensively assess any tax issue.
Our services in Russia:
Tax planning:
- choosing and modeling most tax efficient methods of investing and divesting, depending on the model of doing business and the investment vehicle;
- tax structuring and tax support of Greenfield and Brownfield projects;
- structuring M&A projects, including post and pre acquisition restructuring of the transaction' target;
- tax planning for group companies: tax optimization of group structures and models of doing business;
- tax structuring external / internal financing transactions.
On-going tax support:
- tax structuring of cross-border transactions;
- advising on tax-efficient models of financing day-to-day activities and investments;
- assessing the impact of indirect taxes on business models;
- structuring related-party transactions: transfer pricing compliance; preparing pricing documents; allocation of costs;
- supporting business and investment projects; advising on efficient tax policy and tax optimization of costs structure.
Tax dispute resolution:
- support in desk and field tax audits;
- representing in pre-trial settlement of tax disputes as well as representing in court.
