Practices

Fiscalité

Les activités fiscales internationales de Cleary Gottlieb le placent parmi les meilleurs cabinets dans le monde et l’amènent à conseiller nos clients sur des opérations très sophistiquées. Tant nos confrères que nos clients reconnaissent le talent de notre équipe fiscale pour proposer des solutions créatives en matière d’optimisation fiscale, d’opérations transnationales et de résoudre des contentieux fiscaux complexes. Notre équipe Droit fiscal est mondialement reconnue pour son travail de grande qualité et la conception stratégique de produits financiers et de structuration. Nous concentrons notre énergie sur les problèmes concrets liés à l’activité et aux contraintes rencontrées par nos clients, et leur permettons de réaliser leurs opérations dans le respect du calendrier fixé.

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What Others Say About Our Practice

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Counsel on tax matters for many of the firm’s significant mergers and acquisitions.
Counsel to McDonald’s in approximately $1 billion tax-free split-off of Chipotle, including acting as counsel to McDonald’s and Chipotle in Chipotle’s $199 million SEC-registered IPO and a $275 million SEC-registered secondary offering.
Counsel in $3 billion in offerings of “hybrid” securities designed to provide enhanced equity credit and/or regulatory capital while preserving debt treatment for tax purposes.
Counsel to The Interpublic Group of Companies in $750 million financing, including a Rule 144A credit-linked notes offering by ELF Special Financing linked to the common stock of Interpublic, and the establishment of a credit facility.
Counsel to major financial institutions with respect to audit controversies with the Internal Revenue Service relating to various taxation issues.
Presented expert testimony before the United States House Committee on Ways and Means on behalf of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association, and before the Committee on Finance of the United States Senate on the advisability of public disclosure of U.S. corporate federal income tax returns.

“This firm's ‘magnificent’ tax group fields ‘some of the most brilliant scholarly minds’ in the tax field.”
Chambers Global (2007)

U.S. Tax Firm of the Year in Europe
International Tax Review (2006 and 2007)

New York Tax Firm of the Year
International Tax Review (2007)

“Leading” in Tax in the U.S.
PLC Which Lawyer? Yearbook (2007)

“Cleary stands out in the New York tax market thanks to its impressive ‘business acumen and ability to think outside the box’ ... Clients say they also benefit from the intellectual prowess of the attorneys, who are praised for ‘looking under every rock’ when considering a case.”
Chambers Global (2008)

“This internationally renowned tax practice is widely described as ‘without question one of the strongest groups in the country.’ … The practice is staffed by a consistently excellent group of attorneys, from ‘exemplary star players’ to junior associates who win effusive praise for their ‘intellectual rigor, extraordinary thoroughness and responsiveness.’”
Chambers USA (2008)
“Clients agree that its tax team is ‘one of the very best in France for tax issues’ and describe it as ‘extremely knowledgeable, responsive and creative.’”
Chambers Europe (2008)

“Its tax practice is widely considered ‘top of the tree’”
Chambers Europe (2007)

“The firm excels in structuring complex cross-border M&A transactions, and the tax group has the ability to meet all challenges in cross-border transactional work and financing.”
The US Legal 500 (2008)

“Part of an integrated group of over 75 lawyers based in the US, Europe and Asia, the tax group is ‘a one-stop shop across all jurisdictions, and across the jurisdictions they are uniformly excellent…’”
Chambers Global (2006)

Fiscalité

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