White Collar Crime Law Firm of the Year Belgium

Firm Profile

AFSCHRIFT (Listed 3 times in www.worldfinance100.com) is a multi-awarded boutique law firm established in Brussels, Antwerp, Geneva, Luxembourg, Madrid and Tel Aviv.

AFSCHRIFT’s lawyers engage in all matters of national and international business law, and more specifically tax and international law, cross-border mergers and acquisitions, international tax planning and optimization, estate planning, consultancy on taxation related to financial instruments, as well as litigation on tax, criminal tax and white collar crime cases. The firm’s clientele includes individuals, industrial and commercial companies,

Luxembourgian, Swiss and Belgian banks, as well as companies established out of Belgium. Due to the partners’ expertise on European tax law, as well as their specific knowledge of Swiss, Belgian, Luxembourgian, Spanish and Israeli tax law, AFSCHRIFT’s lawyers are in position to help companies to achieve the best optimization of their tax situation and individuals to optimize the planning of their estate, in the most strictly confidential frame.

Notable Legal Work

The firm has participated in the major tax trials of the past 20 years and acts as a counsel for several Belgian, Swiss and Luxembourgian banks and financial institutions, as well as for wealthy individuals.

Lately, the firm has acted as the

principal counsel in a multi-million criminal tax case, the most important in the history of Belgian criminal tax procedure.

Unfortunately for this presentation,

but fortunately for our clients, under Belgian Lawyers ethics (and following the firm’s extremely strict cede on this matter), we cannot disclose the cases in which the firm has participated, nor our clients and the deals made.

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With over 30 years experience in domestic and international tax law, managing and founding partner Pr Thierry AFSCHRIFT leads the firm’s practice and advises a very important number of major Belgian and foreign companies and banks.

He is admitted to the Brussels,

Antwerp and Madrid Bar, while being member of Luxembourg and Geneva bars.

Thierry AFSCHRIFT is also founder

and Chairman of the Master on Tax Management, from the Solvay Brussels School of Economics and Management of the Free University of Brussels (U.L.B.) and deputy judge at the Court of Appeal in Brussels.

In 2008, he has awarded as Best tax

lawyer 2009-Belgium by an important English on-line business magazine.

He is a regular speaker in different

seminars and conferences, and is very often invited in tv financial talk-shows and broadcast.

Areas of Expertise

• Belgian tax law • International tax law

• Belgian and international tax optimization

• National and international tax planning

• Estate planning • Real estate planning

• Tax optimization of financial instruments

• Scuritizations

• Tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions

• White collar crime

• Financial and tax criminal procedures

Contact

AFSCHRIFT Avenue Louise 208

B-1050 Belgium (main office)

Email: avocats@afschrift.com Website: www.afschrift.com