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Intercompany Invoice Finance: four key legal distinctions

11 May 2022   Paul Sutton

Factoring and invoice discounting can be used as part of intercompany financing arrangements. The terminology involved can differ from country to country, so before attempting a transfer pricing analysis it’s critical to look behind that terminology, and understand what is actually happening from a legal and commercial perspective. Here are four fundamental legal distinctions: 1….

Intercompany Agreements

The Asian Women of Achievement Awards 2022

4 May 2022   Paul O’Regan

Our CEO, Xiaofang Sutton, has been shortlisted for this year’s Asian Women of Achievement Awards, in the Entrepreneur category. Everyone at LCN is enormously proud and happy that Xiaofang has been recognised in a very impressive group of nominees. The Asian Women of Achievement Awards were founded by Pinky Lilani CBE DL in 1999. They…

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Start with the end in mind

2 May 2022   Paul Sutton

I’ve decided to set myself a mini-challenge: to post something on LinkedIn every working day. I’ll try it out for a month, and then decide whether sharing insights has given way to verbal diarrhoea. It has been interesting so far, as it requires me to reflect on points regarding the legal implementation of TP that…

Intercompany Agreements

Live Workshop on 28 April: Intercompany Agreements for Limited Risk Arrangements

11 April 2022   Paul O’Regan

Thanks very much to everyone who participated in our interactive workshop on financial transactions. You’ll find a recording of one of the sessions here. Our next workshop is on Thursday 28 April. It will focus on the legal implementation of limited risk arrangements in transfer pricing, including: What are limited risk arrangements? What is required for…

Intercompany Agreements

Interview with Liz Bates, CEO of MACS

4 April 2022   Paul O’Regan

Our CEO, Xiaofang Sutton, is running the London Marathon this year in aid of MACS, a charity which helps people born with a variety of rare eye conditions. We spoke to the charity’s CEO, Liz Bates. What was your career path to your current role? It’s quite an unusual path. My background is working in…

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Cash pooling – a legal perspective

28 March 2022   Paul Sutton

Thanks very much to everyone who attended our recent interactive webinar on the basics of intercompany agreements for financial transactions. If you missed it, you’ll find a recording here. One of the issues we discussed was cash pooling arrangements, both physical and notional, and in this blog post I’d like to delve a little deeper into…

Intercompany Agreements

Group Reorganisations

The LCN Interview: Borys Ulanenko

21 February 2022   Paul O’Regan

  Borys Ulanenko is a transfer pricing professional, currently working in Krakow as part of Royal Dutch Shell’s in-house team. He also runs StarTax Education, a company he created that provides high-quality and affordable educational materials for people who are studying TP. How did you get into transfer pricing in the first place? It was mainly…

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Intercompany Agreements

What we can learn from Singtel: webinar discussion with Johann Müller

3 February 2022   Paul O’Regan

Following on from two recent blog posts by Paul Sutton and Harold McClure that related to the recent tax case involving Singapore Telecom Australia, we have completed the trilogy in a webinar with Johann Müller. Johann is a very experienced expert in international tax. In this discussion he looks at the details of the structure that…

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Group Reorganisations
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