AI Magazine Issue 3 2018

44 Acquisition International - Issue 3 2018 Afschrift Law Firm is an innovative, Brussels based law firm specialising in tax law. We profile the firm, which won Most Outstanding Tax Law Firm – Switzerland in our 2017 Global Excellence Awards, to learn more. ounded in 1994 by Thierry Afschrift, Afschrift Law Firm brings together lawyers with extensive knowledge in every field of tax law to ensure excellence for its clients. The firm incorporates some twenty versatile lawyers with the right expertise to help its clients across all areas relating to taxation. As part of this, the lawyers in the Afschrift Law Firm provide their clients with expert knowledge about structuring the assets of private individuals and married couples, succession planning and the negotiation of contracts. In every one of these areas advice on tax implications is automatically given. To this end, they draw as much on their own thorough knowledge of the law and jurisprudence as they do on their experience of settling disputes with taxation authorities. Their objective is always the same: to provide their clients with advice that is completely tailored to their situations in order to ensure the best possible legal security for their transactions. The firm revolves around its brand image of the bear, which represents both energy and courage and gentleness and benevolence. All of these qualities are vital in a successful law firm, and as such Afschrift Law Firm aims to offer them at all times. To provide a tangible example of its attachment to bears as the emblems of its activity, the firm have decided to put words into action. That is why it supports in Spain the charity “Fundación oso de Asturias” which works for the protection of bears in Asturias. Thanks to the success the firm has enjoyed over recent years and its awareness of the increasing globalisation of its clients’ private and professional activities and of the complex nature of their taxation matters, the firm has opened offices at Antwerp, Madrid, Geneva, Luxembourg, Tel Aviv and Hong Company: Afschrift Law Firm Contact: Spyridon Chatzigiannis Address: Avenue Louise, 208, Brussels, 1050, Belgium Phone: 0032 2 646 46 36 Website: www.afschrift.com Taking Tax Law to the Next Level F 1802AI43 Kong. Clients who would like face-to-face meetings with the firm’s lawyers may make appointments in any of these offices. Ultimately, Afschrift Law Firm is more than just an association of tax lawyers. All of its members share the same vision of our profession and support the same commitment to advise and defend taxpayers, be they individuals or businesses, both in Belgium and abroad. They fully understand the importance of adopting a global vision in every situation, in response to queries from our clients on the management of their professional businesses or their private assets. They also know that the success of their interventions depends upon speed, efficiency and confidentiality. This will remain the firm’s ongoing focus as it looks towards a bright future filled with opportunities. “Their objective is always the same: to provide their clients with advice that is completely tailored to their situations in order to ensure the best possible legal security for their transactions.”