Germany

Firm overview

Firm overview

NERA Economic Consulting (www.nera.com) is a global firm of experts dedicated to applying economic, finance, and quantitative principles to complex business and legal challenges. For over half a century, NERA's economists have been creating strategies, studies, expert valuation reports, expert testimony, and policy recommendations for government authorities and the world's leading law firms and corporations. We bring academic rigor, objectivity, and real-world industry experience to bear on issues arising from competition, regulation, public policy, strategy, finance, and litigation. In the context of international tax, NERA is the ideal complement to in-house tax departments and law firms. NERA provides economic advice for transfer pricing planning, documentation, value chain transformation, and litigation in:

• Field tax audits
• Intellectual property valuation
• Value chain analysis

With its main office in New York City, NERA serves clients from more than 25 offices across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Firm overview

Flick Gocke Schaumburg is an independent interdisciplinary firm that has established itself as one of Germany's leading tax law practices, combining the expertise of more than 320 lawyers, tax advisers and public auditors. Working from offices in Bonn, Berlin, Düsseldorf, Hamburg, Frankfurt, Munich, Stuttgart and a representative office in Zurich, the firm's client base includes national and international groups, affiliated corporations, family-owned businesses and high-net-worth individuals.

Transfer pricing is one of Flick Gocke Schaumburg's core disciplines. With a team of 12 partners and more than 20 associates specialised in TP the firm focuses on the defence of mechanisms in tax audits, the documentation of TP systems, the planning and implementation of new TP approaches in existing group organisations, APAs, MAPs and EU Arbitration Convention procedures. Flick Gocke Schaumburg's transfer pricing team is also experienced in the taxation of permanent establishments, and in particular the determination of their profits. Since 2016, Flick Gocke Schaumburg is the exclusive German member of Taxand, an international network of leading independent tax advisory firms.

Firm overview

Deloitte's transfer pricing team in Germany is led by Jobst Wilmanns who works alongside 8 partners, 12 directors and a team of 110 further colleagues. This team includes business economists, economists, information scientists, tax advisors, CFAs and attorneys.

With its nine hubs in Germany Deloitte's transfer pricing practice serves clients with a wide service spectrum in almost all regions and industries. Our industry-specific competencies allow for offering specialised services.

For Deloitte's practice, transfer pricing is not a question of compliance but of strategic and risk-oriented planning, monitoring and defending. Besides, Deloitte has always an eye on efficiency and cost optimization by combining available resources with innovative technology and system-related support.