CMS

Taxation - International taxation.

Stéphane Gelin is Head of the CMS Tax Group. In this position, he leads an international team of 400 tax lawyers. He specialises in international taxation and transfer pricing. He has advised French and international multinational corporations in this field for nearly thirty years. He has participated in several major projects involving the structuring of global transfer pricing, operational restructuring and the documentation of French and foreign transfer pricing. He offers his clients assistance in French and international tax litigation (specifically competent authority procedures, arbitration procedures and advance pricing agreements). He also advises clients on international financing matters, cross-border restructuring, joint ventures and acquisitions.

Stéphane joined the International Taxation Department of CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre in June 2003 as a partner, having spent sixteen years at Ernst & Young in Paris, where he was the partner responsible for the transfer pricing business, and in New York where he was responsible for the French tax desk.

French, English

Member of the Council of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, IFA (International Fiscal Association), ACE (French Association of Corporate Legal Advisors) and IACF (French Institute of Tax Lawyers).

Graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Paris (Economics and finance-1986); Master’s degree in business law and taxation (Paris V, 1983) ; DESS [postgraduate specialised diploma] in business law and taxation, with a speciality in applied taxation (Paris V, 1985).