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Tax
Bird & Bird
Client SatisfactionMaintaining a finger on the pulse of IP and R&D tax issues, the practice at Bird & Bird is valued by clients from the life sciences and non-profit sectors. Practice head Brent Springael coordinates the firm’s international centre of intelligence for tax structuring in this regard, while the addition of DALDEWOLF‘s Olivier Bertin in November 2022 strengthens the team’s tax disputes offering.
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Key clients
- ArcelorMittal Group
- Mastercard
- Qlik Group
- Quantum Simulate
- Capsugel / Lonza
- Coopervision
- Cardiovascular Center Aalst
- SABAM
- Certa Insurance
- Action Refund
- Vlaamse Nieuwsmedia
- Pleo
- PDC*Line
- NuNet
- Mediafin
- EORTC
- Belgian company – member of UK-listed international retail and online betting group
- SA Doyen Auto
- Saint-Gobain Construction Products Belgium
Work highlights
- Assisted California-based start-up QSimulate with setting up its first and only site in Europe, based in Ghent, including securing the beneficial copyright pay treatment for its software developers (based on the characterisation of pay as movable income rather than much higher taxed professional income) via a ruling procedure.
- Assisted a Belgian holding company active in retail and online betting with securing the innovation income deduction for the royalty income from its in-house innovative software via a ruling procedure.
- Advised the leading automotive spare parts distributor in Europe, with around eight subsidiaries in Belgium, with simplifying its structure.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Brent Springael