Germany

Firm overview

Axel Eigelshoven is a senior transfer pricing partner and PwC Germany TP practice leader with more than 20 years of experience in tax and transfer pricing consulting. The team consists of more than 170 dedicated transfer pricing specialists who are located in strong regional teams in all major cities. Together with the largest worldwide tax network among the Big 4 firms the German team is able to offer outstanding professional services.

Our practice has a number of internationally recognised controversy leaders who are engaged in an array of transfer pricing court cases. Moreover, we have a strong track-record in supporting multinationals in competent authority procedures.

The team offers clients the most advanced technology solutions for the whole end-to-end transfer pricing cycle, also including TP documentation (globalDoc software), CbCR and TP data analytics.

Firm overview

Deloitte's transfer pricing team in Germany is led by Jobst Wilmanns who works alongside 8 partners, 12 directors and a team of 110 further colleagues. This team includes business economists, economists, information scientists, tax advisors, CFAs and attorneys.

With its nine hubs in Germany Deloitte's transfer pricing practice serves clients with a wide service spectrum in almost all regions and industries. Our industry-specific competencies allow for offering specialised services.

For Deloitte's practice, transfer pricing is not a question of compliance but of strategic and risk-oriented planning, monitoring and defending. Besides, Deloitte has always an eye on efficiency and cost optimization by combining available resources with innovative technology and system-related support.

Firm overview

NERA Economic Consulting (www.nera.com) is a global firm of experts dedicated to applying economic, finance, and quantitative principles to complex business and legal challenges. For over half a century, NERA's economists have been creating strategies, studies, expert valuation reports, expert testimony, and policy recommendations for government authorities and the world's leading law firms and corporations. We bring academic rigor, objectivity, and real-world industry experience to bear on issues arising from competition, regulation, public policy, strategy, finance, and litigation. In the context of international tax, NERA is the ideal complement to in-house tax departments and law firms. NERA provides economic advice for transfer pricing planning, documentation, value chain transformation, and litigation in:

• Field tax audits
• Intellectual property valuation
• Value chain analysis

With its main office in New York City, NERA serves clients from more than 25 offices across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.

Firm overview

EY’s Transfer Pricing practice in Germany is headed by Alessia-Maureen Dickler. She is a Transfer Pricing Partner in the Eschborn office of EY. The overall Transfer Pricing team in Germany consists of 205 professionals, thereof 18 Partners, 14 Associate Partners and 12 Directors.

EY’s TP professionals advise clients along the whole TP life cycle and in close collaboration with relevant other Tax and Non Tax Service Lines. The team offers the full scope of services, including TP planning, the implementation and operationalization of TP models and transactions including the integration and harmonization of TP systems (e.g. usually undertaken after a company has undergone an acquisition or restructuring), the TP documentation and TP controversy covering the full range from tax audits (including joint tax audits), support in court cases, MAPs and APAs.

Given the size of the practice, EY’s TP team has deep knowledge of all major industries in Germany (Automotive, Pharma and Life Sciences, Industrial Products, Consumer Products, Oil and Gas, Media and Telecommunication). Further, focus teams around the core services are established cross country:

• TP Controversy
• TP Documentation
• Operating Model Transformation
• Operational Transfer Pricing
• CMS
• Financing
• Transactions