Michal Stepien

Michal Stepien

Principal Associate
Head of Transfer Pricing
About

Michal is a tax practioner with significant international experience, particularly in strategic transfer pricing, financial transactions transfer pricing, and transfer pricing audits and litigation. His experience in both in-house roles and at a Big 4 firm, coupled with extensive international exposure, provides him with a nuanced understanding of the practical complexities inherent in multinational operations and managing diverse stakeholders.

He has successfully led and contributed to projects encompassing the resolution of tax controversies, tax planning, Value Chain Alignment (VCA), and tax-effective acquisitions, integrations, and reorganizations.

Areas of FocusTax
Languages
  • Polish
  • English
  • French
Education
  • Warsaw School of Economics, Master's Degree in Finance & Banking (specialization Management Accounting), 2003
  • Wyższa Szkoła Informatyki i Zarządzania (Computer Science and Management College), Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, 1999

Publications and media

  • “Debt capacity analysis across Europe: emergence of a new TP reality”, ITR, (co-authored with Karolina Ibranyi-Matkovits), October 2023
  • “Debt capacity under review across Europe – emergence of a new transfer pricing reality”, AGEFI Luxembourg, (co-authored with Karolina Ibranyi-Matkovits), October 2023
  • “Managing Liquidity in the Time of High Interest: Transfer Pricing Considerations”, AGEFI Luxembourg, (co-authored with Cristina Blindu and Joep Hoksbergen), January 2023
  • “Dimension of Substance – interplay between Transfer Pricing and Controlled Foreign Corporation Rules”, AGEFI Luxembourg, (co-authored with Karolina Ibranyi- Matkovits), January 2022

Additional News

  • Guest Lecturer at Université de Lorraine, Faculté de Droit, Economie et Administration, Metz, France

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