Marina Tokunova

Marina Tokunova's practice focuses on tax advice for cross-border M&A and private equity transactions, joint ventures, carve-outs and restructurings. She provides pre- and post-transaction tax structuring advice, tax due diligence, negotiates tax clauses in transactional documents, advises on post-acquisition integration as well as on application of tax conduct provisions. Marina Tokunova frequently advises clients in the healthcare, industrial, manufacturing and transportation (IMT), and technology, media and telecommunications (TMT) sectors. Marina also provides international tax advice, advice on complex group reorganizations and supply chain structures, as well as indirect tax advice.

• Advised a global pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical company in connection with the exercising of the buy-out in the joint venture
• Advised Bristol-Myers Squibb Company on the tax aspects of post-acquisition integration following the global merger with Celgene
• Advised LVMH on tax consequences of the cross-border acquisition of the luxury travel and hospitality group of companies
• Advised Abbott Laboratories on its acquisitions, including tax due diligence, transaction planning and tax advice on transactional documents
• Advised a leading international pharmaceutical company on tax matters with regard to its transformational corporate reorganization and post-acquisition integration of a business line and a distribution model
• Provided tax advice for an international group of software companies in connection with the sale of the subsidiary to a third-party investor
• Advised one of the world’s leading container shipping lines on the restructuring of its business
• Advised one of the global agriculture companies on restructuring of its business operations
• Advised on supply chain structuring for an expensive gene therapy medication for minor patients
• Advised on Central Asia tax matters, including litigation in Uzbekistan and in the Kyrgyz Republic and tax advice on a M&A deal in Tajikistan.