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“Extensive expertise in inward investment, cross-border tax planning and transfer pricing issues”.
Tax: Chambers Global 2011
Catherine Galvin is "highly recommended for advising international corporations on business and investment in Ireland."
Tax: Chambers Global 2010
Recommended by Best Lawyers for Ireland in the practice area of Tax. Catherine Galvin is"excellent at explaining the finer points of an issue".
Tax: Chambers Europe 2009
Clients appreciate Catherine Galvin's "attention to detail" and practical advice.
Chambers Global 2008
Catherine is recognised as a leading lawyer by international legal directory World Tax 2008, PLC Which Lawyer and Euromoney Expert Guides.
Expertise
Catherine practises corporate tax and advises on inward investment, cross border tax planning and transfer pricing issues. She advises many of the leading international corporations doing business in and through Ireland.
Catherine is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland. She is the Irish panel member for BNAI's Transfer Pricing Forum. Catherine is the co-author of the Irish chapter for the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation's (IBFD) publication "The Tax Treatment of Transfer Pricing". She has also written on transfer pricing issues for Transfer Pricing Review and for IBFD's International Transfer Pricing Journal.
Catherine has written on tax issues for the Irish Tax Review, the International Tax Review and other publications and has lectured on international tax issues.
Education
University College Dublin, Bachelor of Civil Law
Dublin City University, Masters in Taxation
Highlights
Catherine has advised:
- a leading multinational on the Irish taxation implications of its global reorganisation
- a US Fortune 50 company in the life-sciences sector on the most appropriate structure for its Irish operation
- on the first transfer pricing Competent Authority application in Ireland and the first Advance Pricing Agreement in Ireland
- and negotiated a number of transfer pricing settlements with the Irish Revenue Commissioners and foreign tax authorities
- advising on the implications of the introduction of transfer pricing legislation in Ireland
