Finance Monthly Taxation Awards 2017 Winners Edition

www. finance-monthly .com FINANCE MONTHLY TAX AWARDS 2017 17 UNITED KINGDOM TRANSFER PRICING FIRM OF THE YEAR FTI Consulting LLP, 200 Aldersgate, Aldersgate Street, London, EC1A 4HD www.fticonsulting-emea.com FIRM PROFILE FTI Consulting are delighted to have been named the UK Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year at the Finance Monthly Tax Awards 2015. The European Tax Advisory Group at FTI Consulting provides corporate tax advisory and transfer pricing services to FTSE 100, major corporations and PE- backed businesses. We commit senior teams to work closely with our clients providing advice which is client centric and focused on mitigating tax risk and minimising cost. The largest independent tax practice of its type in the UK, we are free from audit and assurance relationships and any related conflict of interest. Our transfer pricing team has over 100 years of Big Four and HMRC transfer pricing experience and draws on the unparalleled experience of over 120 economists. Our economists price complex commercial and financial transactions, undertake valuations of intangibles and stand as expert witnesses in litigation cases on a daily basis. We are the UK office of the WTS Alliance Tax Network, a global tax network with offices in over 100 countries, meaning we are able to deliver large-scale multijurisdictional projects including global and local documentation, country by country reporting services and global restructuring advice. The WTS Alliance has also named us Best Tax Firm of the Year in both 2014 and 2015. We actively participated in the OECD’s consultations on BEPS transfer pricing matters, including Cost Contribution Arrangements and Hard-to-Value Intangibles. The team is now fully engaged with advising on the post BEPS environment and providing practical solutions to ensure adherence to new OECD guidance and associated UK tax law changes. We help clients with a full range of transfer pricing services including: • Advising on transfer pricing strategy to align tax compliance and business objectives; • Designing and implementing pragmatic transfer pricing policies and providing effective implementation and ongoing monitoring of those policies; • Undertaking BEPS impact analysis and advising clients on solutions compliant with the latest OECD recommendations; • Preparing master file (global/local) documentation, reviewing country by-country reports and performing risk analysis; • Managing disputes with tax authorities, including responding to and reaching agreement on tax authority enquiries; • Advising on the transfer pricing aspects associated with the restructuring of operations and/or acquisition deals; • Preparing Advance Thin Capitalisation Agreements (“ACTAs”) and Advance PricingAgreements (“APAs”) and undertaking negotiations with tax authorities to reach certainty with respect to the transfer pricing position and to eliminate double taxation; • Pricingcomplex intra-group financial arrangements, including intra-group debtfinancing,financialandperformanceguarantees,riskallocation,and cash pooling; • Valuing intangible assets, for licensing or sale purposes; • Optimising the tax efficiency of supply chains; • Undertaking Diverted Tax Profits (“DPT”) risk reviews. London - UK