Loyens & Loeff

Integrated legal and tax advice

Loyens & Loeff offers top-level legal and tax advice for international businesses, financial institutions and government bodies.

Thanks to our closely collaborating legal and tax practices, we have built up a unique and very solid position in the market. Different specialists tackle issues from different sides, offering you the best advice in the most efficient way. With about 1600 employees worldwide, consisting of about 400 tax experts and about the same number of legal experts, we are capable of effectively structuring and supervising both domestic and international matters.

We provide services from our seven Benelux offices and from our eleven branches based in the world's major financial centres.

News

Loyens & Loeff Best Employer in the Netherlands for the second time

On Monday 22 June, our firm was voted Best Employer to work for in 2009. With an employee satisfaction score of 8.4, Loyens & Loeff came out top in the large-organisation category (more than 1000 employees) in the Netherlands. This makes us proud. Our score is much higher than that of average Dutch organisations (7.1). The Best Employer survey was compiled by the research bureau Effectory and Volkskrant Banen following a survey of 263 organisations.

Chairman of the Board Pim Bertel...

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Aberdeen: ECJ forces refund of Finnish dividend withholding tax to a Luxembourg SICAV

The future of dividend taxes across Europe is uncertain. Several EU Member States have already been summoned by either the ECJ and/or the European Commission to end discriminatory treatment of cross border investments. The list of cases is growing every day.

For instance, the Netherlands have been forced to extend the exemption for > 5% shareholdings, which used to apply only to domestic shareholders, to residents of other EU countries. The same applies to the refund procedure for...

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