Aldo Engels

Partner - Attorney at Law at LOYENS & LOEFF

Aldo Engels, Attorney at Law, is a member of the Loyens & Loeff Direct Tax Practice Group and heads the Transfer Pricing Team in Belgium.

Aldo advises on corporate and international tax matters, with a strong focus on transfer pricing. His counsel in transfer pricing includes strategic advice, documentation & pricing, negotiations with tax authorities, dispute resolution and litigation. He advises on business model design & conversion, restructurings & procurement models, permanent establishment issues and transactions involving intangibles. He has a strong passion for intra-group financing, including analysing and modelling optimal financing structures, loan pricing, cash pool models, and real estate financing.

Beyond transfer pricing, Aldo has extensive experience in investment structuring and withholding tax matters, tax treaty issues (including PE and MLI impact), Pillar II, restructuring & insolvency related tax matters as well as financial institutions & exchange of information mechanisms (FATCA & CRS). Finally, he regularly advises on the tax aspects of financing transactions, such as structured finance, syndicated loans, factoring/securitization, and capital markets transactions. Aldo is also recognised in his field of expertise by ITR and Leaders League.