Kirsi Hiltunen

Specialist Counsel

Attorney at Law, MBA

Languages

Finnish, English, Swedish and Spanish

Practice areas

• Consumer
• Diversified industrials
• Food and drink
• Health and life sciences
• Intellectual property
• Mergers and acquisitions
• Retail
• Sport
• Tax planning and consultancy
• Technology
• Technology, Media and Telecoms
• Telecoms

Practice notes

Kirsi is a tax and transfer pricing professional with extensive experience in cross-border acquisitions, inbound and outbound investments, IPR management, transfer pricing including BEPS, and tax efficient supply chain management.

In addition, Kirsi is a frequent speaker on transfer pricing.

Before joining JB Eversheds, Kirsi was Director of Corporate Tax Management at Outotec Oyj, a Finnish-based technology group. Prior to this, she was Partner and Head of Transfer Pricing Practice at EY Finland.

Representative client work:

In her recent transfer pricing projects, she has assisted listed companies with the drafting of local transfer pricing documentation, preparing for transfer pricing review by the Large Taxpayers' Office, and negotiating with the Finnish Tax Administration.

In the last two large transactions, she created tax efficient solutions for the cross-border acquisition of a Finnish target, including tax due diligence, and for a domestic share transfer, including simplification of the group structure outside of Finland.

She has advised high tech and IT companies on how to structure their global operations tax-efficiently, and how to manage their IPRs.

She has assisted clients with permanent establishment issues in Finland and in other countries.

She has advised on tax aspects of incentive plans for top management.

Kirsi works at our Helsinki office.