Avance Attorneys Ltd‘s tax and structuring department continues to provide transactional services with further support from the dispute resolution team on tax litigation. Sebastian Kallas, ’a talented structuring and tax professional with out-of-the-box solutions’, heads up the practice. Antti Leppänen is another key name of note.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘The cutting edge combination of high capabilities in tax law and understanding the client’s business. Based on this, Sebastian Kellas and his team provide solutions which not only solve the tax issue at hand but also fit the client’s business strategies. This is truly unique, and we highly appreciate this.’
  • ‘Lead partner Sebastian Kellas is most likely the best tax adviser in Finland - his skills in tax structuring and tax litigation are awesome.’
  • ‘Team provided great professional work on legal and tax-related matters.’
  • ‘Avance tax team has an excellent understanding of insurance sector-related tax matters.’
  • ‘Antti Leppänen has extensive knowledge. He is very easy to work with and able to help even with urgent requests. He gives clear and precise answers, one of the best tax lawyers I have worked with.’
  • ‘Antti Leppänen has provided highly valued advice.’
  • ‘Sebastian Kellas - pragmatic approach and strong know-how within the tax field.’
  • ‘They are subject matter experts in their field and drill into the matters they are looking at.’

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Sebastian Kellas

Other key lawyers

Antti Leppänen