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Legal Entity Structuring

Helping legal entity structures achieve strategic tax goals

Recent changes to the international tax framework as a result of BEPS and similar initiatives have resulted in increased complexity (and scrutiny) for multinational companies. One consequence is that attention to legal entity structuring is increasingly important and can inadvertently become overly complex and expensive without a clear plan in place.

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Deloitte’s legal entity structuring teams bring clarity to clients

Cumbersome and complex legal entity structures can be a significant burden for many businesses. For example:

  • A structure that is misaligned your business model can cause impediments to business- and strategic agility, inhibit growth and / or limit control and transparency across the business lines
  • Heavy structures also carry unnecessary costs related to workload intensive financial controlling, statutory reporting and / or complex labor relation landscapes.

A well designed legal entity structure enables the business to achieve short- and long-term ambitions; whether around growth (organic or through M&A), efficiency, to better serve customers or to develop into new business areas.

Deloitte’s legal entity structuring teams bring clarity to clients by analysing local, bilateral and multilateral treaties, laws and regulations to understand the potential impact to their global operations.

Deloitte works with organisations to analyse their entity landscape while helping build internal capabilities that efficiently and transparently meet legal entity structuring requirements. We collaborate with you to assess governance, workforce capabilities, processes and technology and implement an integrated approach that reflects your business goals.

Key objectives of our services

A key objective of our services is to streamline the people-intensive and data-intensive aspects of legal entity management. This can include designing and helping implement processes in areas such as:


  • Annual compliance and corporate changes,
  • Data collection and document management,
  • Organisation charting and corporate planning,
  • Legal entity data and deadline tracking and
  • Treaty qualification analysis.

Deloitte’s multifaceted approach to legal entity structuring aims to enhance regulatory compliance, reduce risk and help clients adopt a legal entity structure that can evolve with the challenges and opportunities of being a multinational organisation in today’s business environment.

Realizing your ambitions through legal entity transformation.

  • Enable business model optimization to ensure the right set-up for growth and future business strategies
  • Support M&A activity by cutting complexity and streamlining integration or separation
  • Enhance operational effectiveness by simplifying decision-making process, increasing management agility and transparency into operations

Drives efficiency allowing for increased focus on value-creating activities and reduce costs (SG&A). Key areas of savings are:

  • Back office processes and fees related to controlling, statutory reporting, Intercompany and AP / AR processes
  • Legal- and administrative processes and fees
  • Labor relation efforts
  • Creating the opportunity for refinancing and (debt) restructuring
  • Simplified requirements for technology transformation
  • Optimized interfaces and middleware landscapes
  • Enhanced system-driven control frameworks and end-to-end compliance
  • Simplified operational tax management and de-risked Labor Law Landscape
  • Furthermore, increased responsiveness to regulatory changes, supports to reduce risks and tighten the control framework by simplifying the corporate structure
  • Increased control as it will bring early resolution to contingent liabilities

Our thinking

Implementation of the Multilateral Convention

The Multilateral Convention constitutes a major change to international taxation and will enable international tax authorities around the world to challenge transactions and structures on a new basis.
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Deloitte OECD Pillar Two Tax Advisory services

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Erik Raaijmakers

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+3188 288 7923

Yvo Vlasman

Director
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