DANON Information

Professor Robert Danon is an independent expert in international and Swiss tax law. He is a tenured Professor of Law at the University of Lausanne (Switzerland) where he heads its Tax Policy Center. He serves also as the Chairman of the Permanent Scientific Committee of the International Fiscal Association (IFA). From an international standpoint, his expertise focuses on tax treaty law (including its interaction with investment law), transfer pricing, dispute resolution and, more broadly, public international law. He regularly acts as expert-witness in international tax law in high profile arbitration cases, including commercial arbitrations or those involving non-tax agreements such as Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) At the national level, his expertise covers all areas of Swiss tax law, in particular corporate taxation. He also advises governments and taxpayers on reforms and corporate tax governance issues associated thereto. For instance, in 2015, he was requested by Switzerland's finance minister to analyze its entire post-BEPS corporate tax reform