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Tax

We provide strategic, practical and timely advice on a full range of tax and regulatory issues, backed by our understanding of domestic rules and, when advising on cross-border transactions, how different tax systems operate in practice and how they interlink, ensuring that we add real value.

In addition to legal assistance, our team helps our clients to understand how statutory regulations work, so they can minimise tax risks and effectively take advantage of new opportunities. Our tax experts have extensive expertise in related areas that often go hand-in-hand with tax consulting. We manage and deliver commercial advice across the full spectrum of domestic tax issues including:

General tax advisory 

  • Share and debt issues
  • VAT and indirect taxes
  • E-commerce and the internet
  • Complex remuneration arrangements
Corporate transactions
  • M&A, joint ventures and demergers: risk analysis, negotiation of tax related provisions in the documents 
  • Corporate restructuring, including debt and equity corporate restructuring: maximising tax efficiency 
Banking and finance tax
  • Insolvency and restructuring
  • Lending: advising on withholding tax, negotiation of tax related provisions 
  • Acquisition finance
  • Securitisation
  • Asset or project finance
  • Tax opinions
Real estate tax
  • Establishing real estate funds
  • Structuring real estate investments
  • Maximising post tax returns on real estate investments
Customs regulation
  • Advice on available customs regimes, exemptions and preferential customs treatment
  • Customs issues on aircraft repossession
  • Advising on country of origin and localisation matters for obtaining customs benefits

Team

Publications

  • 01 June 2023

    Better Chance announces its first-year results and new strategic areas of focus

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  • 01 June 2022

    An alliance of the best teams from Clifford Chance, Allen & Overy, Herbert Smith Freehills, Linklaters, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, and Squire Patton Boggs announced the start of their work under a new brand - Better Chance

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Recent Events

We invite you to read the latest company news

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Pravo-300 Individual Ranking: 21 Better Chance lawyers make the list

On March 12, the individual lawyer ranking Pravo-300 has been released

12 March 2025
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Better Chance Advises Alfa-Bank JSC on its Acquisition of Pushkinsky JSC and Karo Film Sevastopolsky LLC

Better Chance acted as legal counsel to Alfa-Bank JSC on its acquisition of Pushkinsky JSC (which includes the “Rossiya” cinema on Pushkinskaya Square) and Karo Film Sevastopolsky LLC

27 December 2024
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Better Chance Advises R-Pharm on its Acquisition of a Stake in Center IVF

Better Chance team acted as legal counsel to R-Pharm, a medical biotechnology company, on its acquisition of a 49.9% stake in Center IVF, comprising a network of 29 operating companies

26 December 2024
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Better Chance Advises Natixis on the Sale of its Subsidiary Bank in Russia

Better Chance team acted as legal counsel to Natixis S.A. on the sale of 100% shares in Natixis Bank JSC, its subsidiary bank in Russia

25 December 2024
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Better Chance Advises on the Largest Infrastructure Project in Russia

On 20 December 2024, the financial closing of the Moscow — St. Petersburg High-Speed Railway (HSR) project took place

24 December 2024
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Better Chance Advises Joyson Safety Systems on its Transaction with MGC Group

Better Chance acted as legal counsel to the global automotive components manufacturer Joyson Safety Systems (JSS) in connection with the sale of 100% shares in its Russian subsidiary, Joyson Safety Systems Rus LLC, to MGC Group

23 December 2024
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Better Chance advises Getblogger Founders in the Transaction with MTS

Better Chance team acted as legal counsel to the founders in connection with the acquisition of Getblogger LLC, a blogger advertising platform, by a subsidiary of MTS

19 December 2024
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Better Chance and W&H Law Firm (PRC) entered into a comprehensive strategic cooperation

Our cooperation with one of the largest law firms in mainland China creates new opportunities in the rapidly growing market of cross-border investment projects 

16 November 2023
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Better Chance advises X5 Group

Better Chance advises X5 Group on the acquisition of a 100% stake in Victoria Baltia LLC

17 August 2023
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First year results and strategic developments

Better Chance announces its first-year results and new strategic areas of focus

01 June 2023
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