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In the complex world of tax, our role is simple: to serve as an extension of your business. At Dentons, our value comes from seeing your business as you do and collaborating with you every step of the way. Together, we will develop and implement a plan based on your needs and aspirations—one that proactively identifies creative, integrated commercial tax-saving solutions.

When you engage Dentons for tax services, you’re getting an interdisciplinary team that understands how tax law meshes with other areas of the law—corporate, real estate and litigation, to name a few. You are drawing from a focused team with years of experience in your industry. It’s a cross-border, multi-jurisdictional group that seamlessly mixes local knowledge with the right resources in order for your business to stay nimble and robust.

Whether excise or extra-jurisdictional, taxes will always impact your business. As regulations and issues shift and evolve, Dentons will work with you to ensure you stay ahead—with your goals as our guide.

Dentons’ comprehensive tax services include experience in worldwide jurisdictions, as well as in matters relating to individuals and private companies, multinational companies, listed companies, blue-chips, partnerships and other transparent entities, tax-advantaged investing and more.

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Experience

Bridgewater Systems Corporation: Advising on its CA$211 million acquisition by Amdocs Limited by way of plan of arrangement.
Capital Power Income L.P.: Advising on its CA$1.1 billion acquisition by Atlantic Power Corporation.
Global healthcare leader: Advising in respect to structuring a promotion arrangement with one of the largest Russian distributors of its products, development of respective contracts between the parties; various antitrust aspects of promotion and distribution of its products in Russia, including development of its commercial policy; clinical trial agreements; product registration; combined marketing and promotion of complimentary products produced by the client and a third party; exclusion of a product from the Register of Vital and Essential Drugs; use of personal data by medical representatives; due diligence criteria for a selection of distributors; and inaccurate and misleading marketing and promotional materials of a competing product.
Grant Forest Products Inc.: Acting as counsel on the CCAA and US Bankruptcy Court approved acquisition of its oriented strand board facilities in Ontario and South Carolina, US by Georgia-Pacific LLC for US$400 million.
Polish, Luxembourg and Dutch tax: Advising on the Polish, Luxembourgian and Dutch tax aspects of setting up investment funds to operate on the Polish real estate market. International tax structuring allowing for tax-efficient conversion of tax into the target structure and obtaining relevant tax rulings in Poland and the Netherlands. The advice on the transaction addressed tax, legal and business goals of the client, taking into consideration the old structure and potential future changes to applicable laws.
Sasol Petroleum International: Advising on the CA$1.05 billion acquisition of a 50 percent working interest in Talisman Energy Inc.’s (Talisman) Farrell Creek shale gas assets in the Montney Basin area of northeastern British Columbia, a subsequent transaction with Talisman for similar consideration of CA$1.05 billion, which expanded Sasol’s gas reserves in the area, with a view to the further development of a gas-to-liquids plant to be located in Canada and to serve the North American liquid fuels markets.
Spanish engineering consortium operating: Advising on a joint venture project related to the development of a nuclear power reactor located in France. Our tax teams in Spain and France advised the client on the tax treatment of the joint venture, on the establishment of a branch in France, and on the tax implications for the seconded employees. We successfully dealt with complex CIT liability, VAT, PIT, a double tax treaty between France and Spain, and sophisticated permanent establishment issues. We helped the client to reduce tax burdens by avoiding paying double taxation in France and Spain. We also helped the client organize the arrangements between the members of the consortium.
US Gold Corporation: Advising on its acquisition of Minera Andes Inc. by plan of arrangement with a transaction value at the time of closing of approximately CA$1.4 billion for the combined company, which was renamed McEwen Mining Inc. This transaction was highlighted as a “Big Deal” in LEXPERT's April 2012 issue.
WestLB: Advising a major German bank on a spin-off transaction concerning a bank with €40 billion in assets and 400 employees and involving a €1 billion share capital increase half-contributed by a bank which we advised on tax and corporate structuring aspects. The spin-off will act as a service unit for the savings banks (Sparkassen) located in the state of Nordrhein-Westfalen. Hessische Landesbank will take over the shares in the spin-off. In order to fund the transaction, Hessische Landesbank went through an increase in share capital amounting to €1 billion. Part of the capital increase (€500 million) was contributed by Deutscher Sparkassen und Giroverband (DSGV), who we advised on the tax and corporate structuring of the transaction.

Recognition

Sarah Green Named 2025-2026 John S. Nolan Fellow by American Bar Association

May 15, 2025

Dentons is excited to announce that Sarah Green, Senior Managing Associate at Dentons Sirote in Alabama, has been selected by the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Section of Taxation as a member of the prestigious 2025-2026 class of John S. Nolan Fellows.

Hat Trick of Honors: Dentons lawyers shine nationally in 2026 Best Lawyers in Australia™

April 17, 2025

Dentons is proud to announce that its senior lawyers have been recognised across all three individual award categories in the 2026 Edition of The Best Lawyers in Australia^™. In total, 40 lawyers have been recognised in The Best Lawyers in Australia™ (2026 Edition), after being nominated by their peers as leading practitioners in their fields of practice, spanning 39 specialties.

Six Dentons partners named to Law360’s editorial advisory boards

March 21, 2025

Law360 has named six Dentons lawyers to its 2025 editorial advisory boards

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Insights

Global tax guide to doing business in...

Our Global tax guide to doing business in... provides a high-level country by country overview of the tax consequences that face businesses planning to expand international operations.

This guide highlights the complexities of corporate tax systems in more than 40 countries across Africa, the Americas, Asia Pacific, Australia and Europe. From establishing the appropriate business vehicle, financing a corporate subsidiary and adhering to the requisite transfer pricing regulations to computing corporate income taxes, payroll taxes and indirect taxes for your operations, this edition of our annual insight piece will help to navigate you through an ever-changing global tax landscape.

Construction loans: risks when the construction industry is in distress

May 15, 2025

Australia: Given the current state of the construction industry, lenders must ensure they are taking precautions to mitigate the increasing risks associated with residential construction loans.

Dentons New Zealand submissions on Inland Revenue’s ‘Taxation and the not-for-profit sector’ issues paper

May 9, 2025

New Zealand: On 24 February 2025, the New Zealand Inland Revenue (IRD) published an officials’ issues paper: Taxation and the not-for-profit sector (Issues Paper). Among others, the Issues Paper outlined proposals to tax business income of charities in so far as it is unrelated to their charitable purposes and to tighten rules for donor-controlled charities. We welcomed the opportunity to comment on the proposals but ultimately urged IRD not to go ahead with them. We have set out a summary of our submissions, including the Government’s response.

ECJ verdict in Nordcurrent case provides some clarity on PSD anti-abuse rule

May 8, 2025

Netherlands: On 3 April 2025, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) delivered its judgment in the Nordcurrent case, which addresses the application of the anti-abuse rule in the Parent-Subsidiary Directive (PSD). The ruling is particularly significant as it addresses some of the questions that remained following the “Danish cases” (T Danmark and Y Denmark Aps, C‑116/16 and C‑117/16).

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Upcoming events

Webinar: Investing in Polish real estate – key tax considerations

May 27, 2025

We are pleased to invite you to an exclusive webinar designed for investors with current or planned investments in Poland. This session will focus on critical tax considerations in Poland, as well as in the Netherlands and Luxembourg – key jurisdictions frequently used to structure investments into Poland.

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Experience

Recognition

Sarah Green Named 2025-2026 John S. Nolan Fellow by American Bar Association

Hat Trick of Honors: Dentons lawyers shine nationally in 2026 Best Lawyers in Australia™

Six Dentons partners named to Law360’s editorial advisory boards

Insights

Global tax guide to doing business in...

Construction loans: risks when the construction industry is in distress

Dentons New Zealand submissions on Inland Revenue’s ‘Taxation and the not-for-profit sector’ issues paper

ECJ verdict in Nordcurrent case provides some clarity on PSD anti-abuse rule

News and Events

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Webinar: Investing in Polish real estate – key tax considerations

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