Involved in a wide variety of issues, ADVANT Altana’s tax team assists its clients in their strategic choices both in terms of domestic and international tax matters, offering them innovative tax optimization solutions. The team also works hand in hand with its colleagues in the M&A department in the structuring of business and financial transactions.

The tax group is active in the following fields:

• General tax assistance to corporations: As a core activity, we advise corporations on a broad array of French domestic and international issues that cover corporate income tax, business tax, VAT, registration duties, custom duties, etc.

• International tax: We have extensive experience in dealing with international tax matters of all types, including tax planning for French and non-French based corporations or groups, the structuring of inbound and outbound business and real estate investments, the preparation of price transfer documentation.

• Transactional tax: We assist our colleagues in the M&A department on a regular basis with the tax aspects of French domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, private equity investments and related transactions such as LBO structurings. We provide due diligence services and assist in the drafting and negotiation of tax provisions in the transaction agreements.

• Contentious tax advice: We also regularly advise both French and foreign, corporate and individual taxpayers anticipating, or involved in, tax proceedings with the French tax or customs authorities and before the French courts when necessary.