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Squire Patton Boggs appoints Dublin director

International firm Squire Patton Boggs has appointed André Vermeulen as director to set up a new Irish practice covering tax strategy and benefits. 

Vermeulen focuses on advising large companies and multi-nationals on a wide range of Irish corporate and transactional tax matters, particularly M&A (mergers and acquisitions), corporate re-organisations, and inward investment into Ireland. 

Before joining Squire Patton Boggs, he was with Eversheds Sutherland and also spent over six years with PwC. He has also worked for KPMG and ENSAfrica, one of Africa’s largest law firms, in South Africa.

He has led many tax due-diligence investigations, managed multi-jurisdictional engagements, and provided acquisition-structuring advice. 

Irish tax knowledge 

Dublin managing partner Dennis Agnew said that the firm’s Irish office had gone “from strength to strength” since launching 18 months ago. 

“Our team here is advising clients on a wide range of cross-border and domestic corporate and private-equity deals, backed by our panoply of global, full-service legal expertise. Now with André joining, clients will be able to access that additional resource of specialist Irish tax knowledge alongside our international structuring experience,” he stated. 

Mitch Thompson, who leads Squire Patton Boggs’ tax strategy and benefits practice, said that Vermeulen’s skillset “fits perfectly with our strategy to increase client services for multi-jurisdictional tax matters generally, and in Ireland specifically”.