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Client services:
maximising results
Global Legal Services overview
Who we are, and what we
do: Find out more about
our multi-disciplinary
legal network inside.
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As you would expect from
a global network of firms,
PwC Legal Services offers a
comprehensive range of legal
services on a local, national or
global basis.
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Core legal areas
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Immigration
Entity Governance & Compliance
Our close links with government
authorities around the world means
we are often actively consulted and
invited to contribute to the formulation
or testing of new immigration rules
or legislation. Our close alignment to
the PwC global tax network ensures
we fully understand the impact of
immigration status on an expatriates’
tax position. We provide full support in
obtaining fully compliant work permits
and visas for your employees and
their dependants.
The potential risks of ineffective global
governance and compliance systems
for multinational companies are often
not recognised until failure occurs.
Post Sarbanes-Oxley, the need for the
implementation of internal controls
is one of the major challenges you
may face. Our entity governance &
compliance offering will help you
do this, being based around two
key principles:
We can also offer you:
• business visitor visas
• student/graduate visas and schemes
• extensions of permission to stay in
the host location
• police/local authority registration
• advice on Schengen visas and Asia
Pacific Economic Cooperation
business travel cards
• use of fast track facilities to
expedite applications
• bespoke consultancy regarding
immigration compliance,
regulations, processes and
best practice
• determination of the appropriate visa
required for non-standard matters
• advice and compliance regarding
short-term business visitors,
including automated technology
systems and integrated tax and
social security advice
• pro-active updates regarding
immigration developments,
regulatory and process changes
• formulation/review of corporate
immigration policy
• provision of training sessions to
promote awareness of immigration
related issues to human
resource staff
• strategic planning for start-ups
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• Global governance and
• Global compliance (legal entity risk
assessment, legal entity management
and corporate changes)
Corporate Structuring
The International Tax Services (ITS)
Legal network comprises specialist
and dedicated international corporate
structuring lawyers who support
PwC’s ITS network. The intra-group
projects that the international corporate
structuring lawyers are typically
involved in include:
• Asset and business transfers,
mergers and carve-outs
• Branch establishment and transfers
• Business transformation and VCT/
GST projects
• Capital buy-backs and redemptions
• Capital reorganisations
• Cash repatriation projects
• Corporate simplification and single
entity projects
• Cross-border financing and
refinancing projects
• Cross-border mergers
• Directors’ duties and corporate
governance advice
• Dividend plans
• Dormancy programmes
• Intellectual property structuring
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• Share transfers
Our international network allows us
to support clients not just in individual
countries but also across multiple
territories. In each territory, we have
experts who advise clients on both
core employment matters, such as
preparing employment documentation,
compliance with local laws, employee
terminations and works council/union
issues, and on more complex crossborder issues and the implications for
other HR workstreams (immigration,
social protection, payroll and tax).
The following are areas in which
we typically assist clients who need
multi‑territory employment law support:
• Due diligence in international
mergers and acquisitions: we
advise on both the sell side and the
buy side of deals, and provide advice
with an eye towards assessing
financial and operational risks to be
taken into consideration in both the
negotiation phase and in the postdeal integration phase. These include
risks include the impact of transfer of
undertaking legislation (especially in
the EU), works council consultation
obligations, and potential
restructuring costs and procedures.
• Staff reduction and restructuring:
we help clients analyse and
anticipate the costs and procedures
inherent in staff reductions under
the legislation applicable to the site,
and can support the client’s own HR
team in managing the often complex
calendar of procedures across
territories efficienly. We also advise
on implementing operational
efficiency measure to cut costs in full
compliance with local legislation and
advise on global employment
structuring to align the client’s HR
policy and processes to overall
corporate business goals (such as the
design and implementation of global
employment platforms, shared
service platforms, and centers of
excellence for specific
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employment relationship.
business functions).
Employment
• Reward plans: we advise on the
compliance of global incentive plans
with local employment laws, notably
to ensure that the plans (and
accompanying management
communications) are in compliance
with worker equality and
discrimination rules, and employee
representive (works council)
negotiation rights.
• Globalization of HR policies: we
help organizations design and
implement global HR policies that
are compliant with local legislation
and can provide training to support
such policies in areas such as
diversity and discrimination.
• Restructuring groups: working
with colleagues in PwC Legal’s
International Corporate Structuring
network, we help clients with the
complexities of changing their
corporate or group structures,
covering areas such as employee
consultation, staff transfers, and any
resulting redundancies.
Mergers & Acquisitions
Our global Mergers and Acquisitions
(M&A) network assists clients in:
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Acquisitions and divestures
Buyer and vendor legal due diligence
Joint-ventures
Management advice
Pre- and post-deal corporate
structuring
• Antitrust filings
• Real estate transactions
• Regulatory approach (sectorial)
We also have legal expertise in other
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Antitrust and EU Competition
Banking and Finance
Financial Services Regulation
Information Technology
Intellectual Property
Private Client
Public Law
Real Estate
Tax and Commercial Litigation
White Collar, Corporate Crime
• Business visitors and other
assignee compliance aspects:
we can assist in resolving the
employment issues that arise for
international assignees, frequent
business travellers and commuters
and other cross-border workers that
may trigger the application of local
labor laws and provide training to
HR staff to improve compliance
when managing cross-border
workers, in concert with PwC’s team
of international mobility experts.
• Business expansion: we support
clients who are setting up in a
country for the first time, starting
with the drafting and negotiation of
employment contracts and
affiliations with the local labour and
social security administrations, and
then advising on issues that may
arise through the full cycle of the
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Our international network
allows us to support clients not
just in individual countries but
also in multiple territories
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Who knows you best when you
need legal advice?
When you have a legal issue, you want
to be sure that it gets resolved quickly,
efficiently and effectively.
Our global network of legal advisers
available across all legal disciplines is
geographically the most extensive in
the world. This means that we already
have established communication links
and standard procedures across all
territories – including those where you
operate. And as a result, you will benefit
by knowing your legal issues are in
safe hands.
So are you are facing a legal dispute
or issue? We will work with you to
minimise costs and, whether this is
in just one territory or a number of
different territories, our cross border
capability means we really will deliver a
truly seamless legal service and help you
achieve a successful result.
Mexico and InterAmericas
Costa Rica, Dominican Republic,
El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras,
Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama
Central and South America
Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile,
Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay,
Venezuela
Caribbean
Barbados, Trinidad & Tobago
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Europe
Belgium, Cyprus, Finland, France,
Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy,
Maghreb (Algeria, Morocco,
Tunisia), Malta, Netherlands,
Norway, Spain, Switzerland,
Turkey, UK
Central and Eastern Europe
(C&EE)
Azerbaijan, Belarus, Bulgaria,
Croatia, Czech Republic, Estonia,
Georgia, Hungary, Kazakhstan,
Latvia, Lithuania, Macedonia,
Moldova, Montenegro, Poland,
Romania, Russia, Serbia, Slovak
Republic, Slovenia, Ukraine
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India
Middle East
Jordan, UAE
Asia
Australia, China/Hong Kong,
Laos, Thailand, Vietnam,
Philippines, Taiwan
Sub-Saharan
Francophone Africa
Cameroon, Chad, Cote d’Ivoire,
Equatorial Guinea, Gabon,
Madagascar, Republic of Congo,
Senegal
Africa Central
Nigeria
Southern Africa
Mozambique
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Where are we now?
Our People1
Europe + UK
CEE
Belgium
42
Azerbaijan
Cyprus
27
Finland
11
France
132
Croatia
Germany
187
Czech Republic
Latin America
Africa
4
Argentina
49
Algeria
7
Belarus
4
Barbados
Bulgaria
14
Bolivia
9
Cameroon
5
3
Chad
2
1
Brazil
130
23
Chile
30
Congo Republic
3
Equatorial Guinea
2
15
Gabon
Greece
9
Estonia
9
Colombia
Iceland
4
Georgia
3
Costa Rica
8
Ivory Coast
1
58
Hungary
34
Dominican Rep.
4
Madagascar
2
Italy
Malta
Netherlands
Norway
Spain
Kazakhstan
7
El Salvador
3
Morocco
18
4
Latvia
4
Guatemala
3
Mozambique
19
Lithuania
6
Honduras
Macedonia
4
Mexico
5
344
Switzerland
23
Moldova
Turkey
16
Poland
UK
Total Europe + UK
1
193
1087
Note: Figures exclude tax lawyers
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4
Nigeria
2
Senegal
6
Nicaragua
3
Tunisia
Panama
5
Total Africa
Romania
28
Paraguay
Russia
79
Peru
5
60
2
17
Serbia & Montenegro
5
Trinidad & Tobago
2
Slovak Republic
8
Uruguay
8
Slovenia
1
Venezuela
4
Ukraine
22
Total Latin America
3
10
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30
Total CEE
12
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over
2000
lawyers
worldwide
For more information,
please contact:
Global Legal Leader
Leon Flavell
Tel: +44 20 7212 1945
[email protected]
Americas
Durval Portela
Tel: +55 11 3879 2800
[email protected]
Carlos Manuel Martínez
Tel: +52 81 8152 2043
[email protected]
CEE
Michael Mullen
Tel: +420 737 210 694
[email protected]
Asia Pacific
Andrew Wheeler
Tel: +61 2 8266 6401
[email protected]
Asia Pacific
Australia
110
China
40
India
15
Laos
8
Philippines
6
Taiwan
69
Thailand
21
Vietnam
Total Asia Pacific
16
285
Middle East
Jordan
1
UAE
7
Total Middle East
8
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Middle East
Waseem Khokhar
Tel: +971 4 304 3181
[email protected]
Australia
Andrew Wheeler
Tel: +61 2 8266 6401 [email protected]
Belgium
Karin Winters
Tel: +32 2 710 7404
[email protected]
Italy
Gaetano Arno
Tel: +39 02 91605200
[email protected]
Brazil
Fernando Loeser
Tel: +55 11 3879 2800
[email protected]
Mexico
Carlos Manuel Martínez
Tel: +52 81 8152 2043
[email protected]
France
Christophe Guénard
Tel: +33 1 5657 4579
[email protected]
Spain
Patricia Manca Diaz
Tel: +34 915 684 211
[email protected]
Germany
Thomas Fischer
Tel: +49 69 9585 5561
[email protected]
UK
Leon Flavell
Tel: +44 20 7212 1945
[email protected]
Russia
Yana Zoloeva
Tel: +7 495 232 5761
[email protected]
Switzerland
Gema Olivar Pascual
Tel: +41 58 792 4377
[email protected]
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