Leendert Verschoor

Leendert Verschoor is a tax and transfer pricing partner. He leads the PwC Transfer Pricing Services Group in Portugal, Angola and Cape Verde and is representing Portugal within PwC’s Global Transfer pricing Network.

He started his professional activity in the area of taxation in the Netherlands. In 1999 he joined PwC in Portugal and became Partner in 2008. He specializes in areas related to international taxation of multinational companies, with 25 years of experience in these matters. Since 2002, he has devoted the greater part of his time advising Portuguese subsidiaries of multinational groups and national groups with international presence in various sectors of activity with transfer pricing planning and transfer pricing documentation obligations. He has been involved in several restructuring projects of multinational companies in the Portuguese market, Advance Pricing Agreements projects and transfer pricing defense work following audits conducted by Portuguese Tax Authorities.

He has been responsible since 2007 for the tax services rendered by PwC in Cape Verde (Africa).

Leendert lectures at the post-academic tax education at the Faculty of Law of the Catholic University in Lisbon on transfer pricing matters.

He is the author of the country section on Portuguese transfer pricing rules in the book “International Transfer pricing”, of the Portuguese section in the book “Mastering the IP Life Cycle and the book "Substance, Aligning international tax planning with today's business realities” and wrote various articles about transfer pricing in economic newspapers and the International Transfer Pricing Journal. He wrote an article in Cadernos Preços de Transferência 2013, Almedina; on “Changes in the business model and Permanent Establishments”.