Alain Huyghe

Alain advises clients on a broad range of domestic corporate tax and international tax issues. He also has extensive experience in tax controversy work (including transfer pricing audits and disputes, mutual agreement procedures, representation of clients before the European Court of Justice and the Constitutional Court) and has successfully handled a number of major cases. He has also a focus on advisory and tax controversy work for insurance companies on specific tax matters inherent to the insurance sector.

• Advised two US multinationals in the medical sector on their worldwide spin-off of a division and obtaining the relevant tax rulings.
• Obtained a Belgian/Swiss bilateral advanced pricing agreement on the determination of the arm's length tolling and commission fee of the Belgian subsidiary of a US multinational active in consumer products.
• Successfully defended Cobelfret before the CJEU in a landmark case on the incompatibility of the Belgian rules relating to the dividend received deduction with EU law.
• Successfully defended a Swiss multinational up to the Supreme Court in the litigation on the usufruct of shares for a value at stake of about EUR 100 million.
• Successfully defended Nyrstar before the Tax Court and the Constitutional Court on the incompatibility of the foreign tax credit rules with the Belgian Constitution.
• Successfully defended a U.S. multinational against a withholding tax claim of more than EUR 120 million based on alleged abuse of Belgian withholding tax exemptions and on the CJEU case law in the "Danish" cases.
• Representing Assuralia and 4 major Belgian insurance companies before the Constitutional Court relating to a request for preliminary ruling on the constitutionality of the so-called 80%-rule for pension premiums.

• International Fiscal Association (IFA), Belgian branch - Past president and member of the Board
• American Chamber of Commerce - Member
• Belgian Association for Tax Lawyers - Member

• Washington, DC