30 September 2020 / news

Top rankings for Loyens & Loeff in the International Tax Review

The International Tax Review (ITR) has published its 2021 rankings. Many thanks to our clients and peers who enabled us to be ranked again in Top Tier categories in the World Tax and World Transfer Pricing guides in Belgium, Luxembourg and The Netherlands.

Individual Rankings

Transfer Pricing: Harmen van Dam and Natalie Reypens are again ranked as ‘Highly Regarded’.
Tax Controversy: Thierry Charon, Christian Chéruy, Nicolas Bertrand and Caroline Docclo are again ranked as ‘Highly Regarded’.
Indirect Tax: Ynze van der Tempel, Patrick Vettenburg and Bert Gevers are ranked as 'Highly Regarded'.
Women in Tax: Dominique Afink, Marieke Bakker, Marja de Best, Caroline Docclo, Nadège Le Gouellec, Margriet Lukkien, Trudy Perié and Natalie Reypens are ranked as 'Tax Leader' and/or 'Highly Recommended'.
Marco de Lignie, Guido Derckx, Jeroen Janssen, Bart Rubbens, Etienne Spierts, Dennis Weber, Bartjan Zoetmulder, Xavier Clarebout, Peter Moons and Simon Paul are ranked as 'Tax Leader'

World Tax and World Transfer Pricing

World Tax: we hold our Tier-1 positions in the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg.
World Transfer Pricing: we hold our Tier-1 positions in the Netherlands and Luxembourg.

The Tier-1 positions for World Tax are in:

Belgium: Tier-1 in Tax and Tax Controversy.
Luxembourg: Tier-1 in General Corporate Tax, Tax Controversy and Transactional Tax.
The Netherlands: Tier-1 in General Corporate Tax, Tax Controversy, Indirect Tax and Transactional Tax.

In the table below, you will find an overview of our Tier-rankings in Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland and The Netherlands in the World Tax and World Transfer Pricing guides:

	*World Tax (Tier)*	*World Transfer Pricing (Tier)*
Belgium	1	2
Luxembourg	1	1
Switzerland	3	3
The Netherlands	1	1

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