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Pascal Hinny

Lenz & Staehelin

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Position: Partner
Rating:
  • Notable practitioner
Practice Areas:
M&A
Jurisdictions:
Languages:
German
English
French
Biography

Pascal Hinny specializes in national and international tax planning both for corporates and individuals; a field spanning everything from M&A, IP-structures, financing, Pillar II questions and relocations to private equity and family offices.

Pascal regularly represents taxpayers in tax ruling processes, tax audits in court- and MAP proceedings and acts as expert witness both for taxpayers and governmental bodies.

Pascal Hinny is a full professor of national and international tax law at the law faculty of the University of Fribourg, Switzerland and a frequent speaker at professional conferences in tax matters.

Practice areas
  • Tax law
  • International tax law
  • Corporate Tax
  • Tax litigation
Sector specialisations

  • Tax
  • Tax Litigation
Academic qualifications
  • University of St.Gallen (lic. iur., 1990)
  • University of St.Gallen (Dr. iur., 1995)
  • Swiss Certified Tax Expert (1998)
  • London School of Economics LSE (LL.M. Tax, 2001) 
  • University of Fribourg (Professor of Tax Law, 2002)
Association memberships
  • EXPERTsuisse Tax Chapter
  • Direct tax group of Confédération Fiscale Européenne (CFE), Brussels
  • Tax group Germany – Austria – Switzerland (D-A-CH), Berlin
  • Chairman of the Swiss Association of Tax Law Professors (SATLP)
  • Zurich Bar Association (ZAV)
  • Swiss Bar Association (SAV)
  • International Fiscal Association (IFA)
Bar admissions
  • Switzerland