Switzerland

Firm overview

Firm overview

Led by Reto Gerber, the Deloitte Switzerland Tax & Legal practice currently numbers approximately 340+ professionals and has won the “Swiss Tax Firm of the Year award” from ITR for the eighth year in a row.

Deloitte Switzerland’s comprehensive range of services of Tax services — including Business Tax, International Tax, Mergers & Acquisitions Tax, Transfer Pricing, Indirect Tax, Tax Management Consulting, Global Employer Services, Private Client Services, Financial Services Tax Advisory — resulted in significant project wins across all industries. 

Our integrated approach combines insight and innovation from multiple disciplines with business and industry knowledge to help clients to excel.

Deloitte Switzerland’s strong collaboration with its Tax, Consulting, Audit, Risk Advisory and Financial Advisory service lines enables it to offer an integrated, innovative and holistic approach, providing highest quality, some of the best solutions possible and added value to its clients.

Firm overview

Tax Partner AG is focused on Swiss and international tax law and is recognised as a leading tax boutique. With currently 12 partners and counsels and a total of approximately 45 tax experts, consisting of attorneys, legal experts and economists, the firm advises multinational and national corporate clients as well as individuals.

Tax Partner AG develops creative and well devised solutions in all areas of tax law and offers the full range of tax advice. The concentration of technical expertise and industry sector knowledge allows the development of tailor-made tax solutions for the clients.

Tax Partner is equipped with a transfer pricing team, headed by Hendrik Blankenstein, that has worked extensively in a wide range of industries and is highly specialized in financial transactions, transactions involving intangibles as well as in the area of asset management services. The services offered include assistance in: Design and implementation of global transfer pricing policies; Management of transfer pricing audits; Advance Pricing Agreements; Mutual Agreement Procedures and Arbitration; Tax valuations of intra-group transactions; Preparation of benchmark studies; Preparation and review of Transfer Pricing Documentation (Master file, Local file documentation, Country-by-Country Reporting).

Since its inception in 1997, Tax Partner’s strategy is to exclusively offer specialized tax advice to its clients. Over the past years Tax Partner AG has consequently developed important contacts to service providers engaged in the fields accompanying tax advice.

Tax Partner AG is independent and collaborates with various leading tax law firms globally. In 2005 the firm was a co-founder of Taxand – the world's largest independent organisation of highly qualified tax experts. Taxand currently has more than 2,500 tax advisors and around 550 tax partners from independent member firms in around 50 countries. Tax Partner is the Swiss Taxand member firm.

Firm overview

Partner Beat Baumgartner leads the Loyens & Loeff Transfer Pricing team together with partner Fabian Sutter in Switzerland. The full team consists of 36 lawyers and economists, such as corporate tax, VAT, customs, litigation and competition from various offices serving in all kinds of sectors.

The team can play an important role in the connections between the Belgian, Dutch, Luxembourg and Swiss markets and foreign based clients and also assists clients on transfer pricing documentation such as CbCR, Master and Local File aspects. Transfer pricing is intertwined with most tax issues, the approach to transfer pricing is to fully integrate the expertise of the team in this field with Loyens & Loeff's other tax and legal practice teams. Across markets and borders, the firm provides integrated solutions on all relevant transfer pricing issues, including strategy, documentation, audits and dispute resolution, to clients.