We support clients across the value chain – OEMs, Tier-1 and Tier-2 suppliers, captive finance providers, mobility platforms, and inbound investors – with the full range of legal and tax services the sector requires.
Transactions and M&A
Cross-border M&A in the automotive supply chain, including Tier-1 and Tier-2 consolidation, OEM carve-outs, joint ventures between European OEMs and Asian battery or e-powertrain partners, distressed acquisitions, and private equity investment in mobility and charging infrastructure.
Capital markets
Equity and debt capital markets work for listed and listing automotive and mobility issuers, including IPOs, secondary offerings, share buybacks, green and sustainability-linked bond issuances, and captive finance funding. Our integrated capital markets, tax, and financial regulatory teams across the Netherlands, Luxembourg, and Switzerland support issuers, underwriters, and sponsors on cross-border transactions.
EU regulatory and trade
Industrial Accelerator Act compliance, state aid, FDI screening, export controls, customs, and preferential origin under new EU FTAs. Our EU law specialists and Brussels-based team works alongside sector specialists in the Benelux and Switzerland on cross-jurisdictional matters.
Tax
Corporate income tax advisory across the value chain, including earnings stripping under ATAD, impairment and deferred tax asset treatment, participation exemption on sector divestments, withholding tax on cross-border flows, and the tax characterisation of contract unwind and settlement payments between OEMs and suppliers.
Transfer pricing
Routine-return benchmarking under margin compression, IP contribution in cross-border JVs, value chain realignment following portfolio rationalisation, and TP controversy with European tax authorities. With our integrated tax & legal expertise and comprehensive transfer pricing knowledge we advise businesses in our main service areas Documentation, Planning & Strategy and Dispute Resolution.
Customs and international trade
CBAM certificate compliance and contractual allocation, preferential origin analysis under EU-Mercosur, EU-India, and EU-Australia, dual-use export controls for defence-adjacent plant conversions, and import VAT and customs valuation issues.
Energy transition and infrastructure
EV charging infrastructure, battery production, grid storage repurposing of battery capacity, real estate and permitting for plant conversions, and renewable energy supply arrangements for manufacturing sites.
Tech, data, and product
Connected mobility and software-defined vehicles, data protection, cybersecurity, IP licensing, commercial contracts, and regulatory compliance for autonomous driving and platform-based mobility.
Workforce and restructuring
Employment, works council, and collective agreement work in plant conversions, reskilling programmes, supplier distress, cross-border insolvency and WHOA restructurings, and captive finance restructurings.
Disputes and controversy
Tax audits and tax litigation, supplier contract disputes, product liability, regulatory investigations, and arbitration in cross-border supply arrangements.
