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How we healthcheck intercompany agreements for TP compliance

17 October 2022   Paul Sutton

  When we’re reviewing intercompany agreements, we look at four key areas of alignment with TP policies: the delineation of the transaction, the risk allocation, the treatment of IP and intangibles, and the pricing. We also look at a fifth area, namely general fitness for purposes. This includes obvious things such as whether the parties…

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Top 10 ‘hidden assets’ which can be missed in Global Value Chain restructuring or legal entity reduction projects

17 October 2022   Paul Sutton

Corporate groups tend to acquire more and more legal entities over time – whether as a result of M&A activity, SPVs created for specific projects or (in some cases) tax planning. Most groups therefore need to clear out unnecessary entities from time to time. Some larger groups have in excess of 1,000 legal entities, and…

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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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Live Workshop for TP Advisers: Scoping Local Sales Entities

5 July 2021   Paul Sutton

In our experience, MNEs screw up their arrangements involving local sales entities more often than any other intercompany transaction type. We’re talking here from the perspective of legal implementation of TP policies. Why does this matter? Because the transaction will fail at Step 4 of the OECD steps for analysing risk and pricing transactions, since…

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TP Audits – Get Your ‘Hard Hat’ at TP Minds International!

14 June 2021   Paul Sutton

It’s TP Minds International this week, and I’m looking forward to contributing to a panel discussion on ‘Managing TP Audits and Defending Your TP Position’ on Wednesday 16th at 13.05 BST. The discussion will feature Catherine Harlow, Head of TP at AstraZeneca and Kurt Wulfekuhler, TP Director at Verizon Communications, and will be chaired by Anton Hume,…

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LCN Legal In The News: Financial Director

1 July 2017   Paul Sutton

We are delighted to be featured in the Financial Director, the publication for Senior Financial Professionals working in the UK. The article covers the topic “Why CFOs must have robust intercompany agreements”. You can read the full article here.

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LCN Legal In The News: Transfer Pricing Week

1 July 2017   Paul Sutton

We are delighted to have an article published in Transfer Pricing Week (TP Week). TP Week provides outstanding and market leading news, analysis and comment on the biggest transfer pricing issues worldwide. The article written by Paul Sutton, Partner at LCN Legal, describes the pitfalls to avoid when rolling out intercompany agreements for Transfer Pricing….

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LCN Legal publishes revised and updated guide to intercompany agreements for transfer pricing

17 February 2017   Paul Sutton

LCN Legal has announced the publication of a new and updated version of its guide to putting in place Intercompany Agreements for Transfer Pricing. The guide is a practical resource for multinational corporates and their advisers, who need to put in place robust intercompany agreements to support their transfer pricing compliance. To access your free…

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