Counsel

Svitlana advises clients on complex transfer pricing and international tax issues. Her TP expertise focuses in particular on IP structures, including the transfer of intangible assets, business restructurings, intra-group financing and other cross-border transactions within multinational groups. She is a member of the Dutch Association of Tax Advisers and of the International Law Association.

Svitlana is also director of the Amsterdam Centre for Transfer Pricing and Income Allocation and programme director of the Advanced LLM in International Tax Law at the University of Amsterdam. She obtained her PhD from the Vienna University of Economics and Business in 2021. In her monograph “International Taxation of Global Value Networks”, she analyses the changing governance structures of multinational companies and digital business models.

Her work has received several awards, including the prestigious Frans Vanistendael Award in 2025 and an honourable mention for the IFA Mitchell Carroll Prize in 2022.

Before joining LBD, Svitlana worked for more than four years at a large international law firm in Amsterdam. Prior to that, she worked for seven years in both tax practice and academia abroad. Svitlana publishes regularly on transfer pricing and is a frequent speaker at conferences.