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      Tax is an ever-changing landscape and mergers & acquisitions (M&A) often involve complex tax issues that, if not properly addressed, can lead to unforeseen liabilities.

      Conducting thorough tax due diligence helps identify and mitigate potential tax risks and provides opportunities for efficient tax planning that can add significant value in a transaction.

      M&A tax is the field comprising all tax matters inherent a transaction whether it is a share deal, asset deal, merger, entering into a joint venture, initial public offering, delisting, restructuring or refinancing. Taxes can have a substantial financial impact on all these types of transactions and should be managed and monitored. Efficient tax planning can add significant value in any transaction in many different ways.

      Thomas Iversen

      Partner, Corporate Tax

      KPMG Acor Tax in Denmark



      What we do

      Our M&A Tax team offers highly skilled and specialised market-leading advisory within all tax aspects of mergers and acquisition.

      We have a broad experience in assisting businesses of any size with restructurings prior to disposals of part of or whole businesses.

      We can assist with any type of tax due diligence – whether buy-side or vendor – for both domestic and cross-border transactions concerning all relevant tax matters.

      Our assistance also involve support during negotiations by providing insights into tax clauses in purchase agreements and tax adjustments in the purchase price calculation, to protect our clients' interests.

      Through practically based and market-leading knowledge, we can assist with a tax efficient structuring of any complex transaction, not only considering the tax impact at Target level but also at management and investor level.

      We provide accountable and sustainable tax advice, both short term and in the long run.

      We assist with all relevant tax compliance obligations post a transaction, including direct and indirect tax registrations, preparation of tax returns and tax filings as well as transfer pricing studies and establishment and design of management incentive plans as well as aligning tax strategies, consolidating tax functions, and ensuring a smooth transition to optimize tax efficiencies.

      Our team, which includes some of the most skilled tax practitioners, has an operational mindset and unique understanding of challenges and opportunities within all kinds of transactions. With our 360° approach, we make sure that every part of a transaction is analysed from different tax perspectives.

      In cooperation with the global KPMG network of M&A tax experts; we are capable of mobilizing a tax team tailored specifically for any distinct transaction.

      In choosing us, you can benefit from market-leading expertise and our pursuit to create commercially viable solutions. Also, you can experience our passion about providing useful transaction advice by cutting through complexity. We work closely with our clients and have the ability to rapidly provide assistance of superior quality.




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