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Fieldfisher houses a tax team made up of specialists, regularly supporting clients in large-scale M&A deals and reorganisations. Team head Geoffroy Galéa handles both direct and indirect taxation matters, including issues related to income tax, transfer pricing, VAT, and registration duties. Real estate matters are a particular area of strength for Stefanie Hardy, and Alain Thilmany has experience in tax disputes and administrative proceedings.
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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘The team has a deep knowledge of the topic with experience in many relevant practical cases. It has the skills to leverage legal actions in a context of over complexity and confusion created by the Belgian administration. They are perfectly equipped to support tech related cases and tech entrepreneurs.’

  • ‘Brilliant individuals with analytic and synthetic minds that avoid falling into emotional bias. Suited to deal with complex cases and defend clients with the right effort and strategy.’

  • ‘The team is composed of young, dynamic and also knowledgeable lawyers.'

  • ‘Fieldfisher's tax practice is a dynamic team of tax experts. They have strong technical skills.’

  • ‘Geoffroy Galéa has excellent technical knowledge and business acumen. This combination contributes to finding practical solutions.’

Key clients

  • Billtrust
  • BPI Real Estate Belgium
  • Casinos Austria International
  • Crédit Mutuel Capital
  • Crédit Mutuel Equity
  • Deployments Factory (dFakto)
  • DHL Group
  • Emeis Group (formerly known as Orpea)
  • euNetworks
  • Eurelec

Work highlights

Representing Casinos Austria Internation before the Constitutional Court in relation to a high-profile corporate tax law annulment procedure.
Acted as buy-side tax and legal advisor for Crédit Mutuel Equity, a French Private Equity Firm, in the framework of the acquisition of a minority stake in CE+T Group, a Belgian based multinational group active in the energy optimisation solutions business.
Assisting Re Panels group on the reorganization of transfer pricing policies and of assets, functions and risks in Belgium, Poland and Switzerland in order to realign with the new business reality.

Lawyers

Practice head

Geoffroy Galéa

Other key lawyers

Stefanie Hardy; Alain Thilmany