Finance Monthly Taxation Awards 2019 Winners Edition

FRANCE | EUROPE FIRM PROFILE Cordes & Partners is a law firm working mainly in the field of indirect taxation, including VAT, payroll tax, customs and excise duties, other indirect taxes and various taxes on consumption. Our strength lies in our specialist expertise and our interdisciplinary and integrated analytical approach to solving problems. We are committed to delivering innovative solutions, tailored to our clients’ individual needs. We work in partnership with our associates, tax lawyers in France and abroad, and adhere to the highest professional quality standards. We respect the essential principles of the legal profession, acting with independence, probity, humanity and conscientiousness. As lawyers, we are bound to respect client confidence, and we guarantee the strictest confidentiality of the information entrusted to us. ABOUT GUY DE CORDES Qualifications • Lawyer practising at the Hauts-de-Seine Bar • Member of the Institut des Avocats Conseils Fiscaux (IACF) • Member of the Association des Avocats Conseils d’Entreprises (ACE) • Member of the Association of European VAT practitioners (APTE) • Member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) • Member of the Inter-Pacific Bar Association (IPBA) • Tax Adviser (Member of the Belgian Institute of Accountants and Tax Consultants) • Founding Associate, Cordes & Partners Experience Consultancy, audit, training, project management, follow-up of legal cases relating to VAT, payroll tax and indirect taxation in general, including customs and excise duties, across all business sectors: analysis of the incidence of all types of restructuring in the context of international trade in goods and services, implementation of customs procedures and tax warehouses, review of deduction coefficients and VATmanagement procedures in the financial sector, definition of VAT codes in the configuration of ERP systems, regulatory validation of electronic invoicing systems, follow-up of tax representations for foreign companies, excise disputes etc. Career history • 2014 – Cordes & Partners • 1996 – 2014 PwC Société d’Avocats, law firm, correspondent member firm of PricewaterhouseCoopers (Partner, 2001) • 1987 – 1995 Coopers & Lybrand Tax Consultants (Brussels) Education • Institut des Hautes Etudes Commerciales/ Ecole Supérieure des Sciences Fiscales, Belgium – 1987 Diploma in Fiscal Sciences • University of Louvain, Belgium – 1986 Master’s Degree in Law GUY DE CORDES - CORDES & PARTNERS 23