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Tax litigation and investigations

Hogan Lovells International LLP

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Hogan Lovells International LLP‘s tax disputes offering works within the firm’s larger tax team and provides cross-sector services with key strengths in the technology, insurance, and real estate sectors. European tax disputes head Rupert Shiers leads the team. Shiers has broad tax litigation expertise and acts for both domestic and international clients.

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Work highlights

  • Advised a UK Publishing Group on an HMRC enquiry into the tax deductibility of expenses arising from legal claims for breach of privacy by staff and others working for the group.
  • Advised Gen Re on significant corporation tax losses arising from a group reorganisation.
  • Advised a US tech company on HMRC’s extensive information request for documents in respect of an intragroup refinancing of existing debt instruments in order to review the permissibility under the loan relationship rules.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Rupert Shiers

Hogan Lovells US LLP

For fifteen years, Rupert has navigated complex HMRC discussions and tax litigation for corporates, individuals and pension funds, and is the Leader of our Tax Disputes team in the UK and Europe. Beyond navigation, Rupert provides technical knowledge in areas many group tax functions have not needed to develop themselves: taxpayer rights and HMRC powers, tax statutory interpretation, tax public law, tax-related evidence and procedure. His commercial approach has made him a valuable extension to in-house tax teams on a wide-range of projects.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Rupert Shiers

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