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Tax: foreign firms

Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I.

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Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I. offers comprehensive advisories that encompass areas from M&A tax planning, and group reorganisations, to joint ventures and project financing, with proficiencies including individual income taxation, customs, and foreign exchange controls. At the forefront of the firm’s China tax practice is Min Guo, whose expertise involves advising companies on their foreign investments in China, particularly within the energy and industry sectors. Guo’s wide-ranging experience includes a plethora of PRC and international tax, accounting, customs, and foreign exchange control matters.

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Key clients

  • Aluminum Corporation of China
  • Biomérieux
  • Clarins
  • Datawords
  • Framatome
  • Gant
  • Ipsen
  • Renault
  • Total

Work highlights

  • Advised Datawords, a Multicultural Ingenuity digital expert, on all legal and tax aspects of its acquisition of award-winning integrated communication Chinese company Switching-Time, with the support of Keensight Capital, Datawords' majority shareholder, to empower international brands with digital campaign solutions in China.
  • Advised Ipsen, a leading European biopharmaceutical company, with a focus on transformative medicines in three key therapeutic areas: oncology, rare disease and neuroscience, on the Chinese legal and tax aspects of the sale of its global consumer healthcare (the CHC Sale) branch to Mayoly Splinder, an independent French family-run pharmaceutical company.

Lawyers

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Guo Min
Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I.
A member of the PRC Bar and Institute of Certified Public Taxation Consultants of China, Guo Min is managing partner of Gide's Beijing office and the head of Gide's China Tax Practice. She joined Gide's Beijing office in 2005 after working in the Tax Department of one of the Big Four accounting firms as a tax consultant. Having advised many companies on their foreign investments in China, she has extensive experience in M&A and JV projects in China, including in relation to corporate advice, restructuring and tax optimisation. She also has specialist experience in customs law, foreign exchange control and corporate legal matters. She has worked on a wide range of notable M&A, JV project and cross-border restructuring matters for global clients.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Min Guo

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