Tax Advisers - Deloitte

The Netherlands
Monique van Herksen
Baker & McKenzie
Claude Debussylaan 54
1082 MD Amsterdam
PO Box 2720
1000 CS Amsterdam
The Netherlands
Tel: (31) 20 551 7137
Fax: (31) 20 626 7949
Email: monique.vanherksen@bakernet.com
Website: www.bakernet.com/amsterdam
Mrs Van Herksen is qualified both as civil law lawyer and common law lawyer and
specializes in international tax law with an emphasis on transfer pricing, exchange of
information, cross-border transactions, treaties, litigation and competent authority issues.
She is experienced in legal and tax law matters between the US, the Netherlands and the
Netherlands Antilles.
Monique van Herksen worked for a Big Five accounting firm and the Centre on
Transnational Corporations of the United Nations before joining the US Internal
Revenue Service’s Office of Associate Chief Counsel (International) as an attorney adviser.
There her areas of expertise included among others the US-NL treaty, the competent
authority process and transfer pricing. She also served at the IRS’s appeals office and in
the US APA programme.
After five years of service with the US government, Mrs Van Herksen moved to private
practice, first in New York and subsequently in Amsterdam. In July 2001 she joined Baker
& McKenzie’s Amsterdam office as a partner practising in the area of international tax.
She has been involved in a great variety of transfer pricing issues and APAs including
recently the planning/implementing of a CDM structure under the Kyoto Protocol.
Monique van Herksen has taught comparative transfer pricing at the Leiden LLM in
international tax programme since its inception in 1998 and has been engaged to teach for
foreign governments in countries such as the US, the Netherlands, India, Vietnam, Brazil
and Denmark. She frequently gives lectures on comparative international tax matters,
transfer pricing and competent authority issues at international seminars and to
governmental bodies such as the OECD and EU, including the 2005 and 2006 Fiscalis
Programme, which provides internal training to the tax authorities of EU member
countries. She represents the Netherlands at the 2007 International Fiscal Association
Conference.
She regularly writes articles in the area of her expertise in international tax publications.
Monique van Herksen is a member of the American Bar Association, the Bar
Organization of the Netherlands, the Bar of the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Dutch
Association of Tax Lawyers and the International Fiscal Association.
Monique van Herksen graduated from the University of Amsterdam Law School in 1988
and received postgraduate degrees in 1989 (LLM in International Trade and Banking,
American University, Washington DC) and 1994 (LLM in taxation, Georgetown
University, Washington DC).
Baker & McKenzie is a leading global law firm with 69 offices in 38 jurisdictions. With a
multinational network of more than 3,000 attorneys and a presence in virtually every
important financial and commercial centre in the world, the firm is able to offer its clients
a truly global service that no other law firm can match.
She speaks Dutch, English, Spanish and Papiamento.
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