Anastasia Büttner

Managing Director
17+ years of experience in indirect tax
Advises on complex technical issues arising from the global structuring of business operations
Clients across industries including consumer products, life sciences, chemicals and diversified industrial products, and energy
Duesseldorf
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Anastasia Büttner is a Managing Director with Alvarez & Marsal Tax in Düsseldorf. Over the past 17 years, she has worked with international businesses to improve the effectiveness of their operating models, with particular focus on supply chains and transactional set-up.

Ms. Büttner’s notable experience includes advising on complex technical issues of indirect taxation that arise from the global structuring of business operations. She has led a number of projects in connection with business acquisitions and divestitures, digitalization and metaversation of business models and product portfolios, business transformations following the BEPS initiative of the OECD, and introduction of ESG considerations in the value chain. She has worked with clients across various industries, including consumer products, pharma and life sciences, chemicals and diversified industrial products, and energy. 

Prior to joining A&M, Ms. Büttner spent 17 years with EY in Germany and in the U.K., where she served for the past eight years as Equity Partner. 

Ms. Büttner earned a master’s degree in business economics from Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf. She is a certified tax advisor in Germany.
 

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This week’s Alvarez & Marsal Tax Update discusses two key rulings by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and the German Federal Fiscal Court (BFH).
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