THE FIRM’S
AREAS OF EXPERTISE

Tax law

Our Tax Law department has built up a body of expertise covering all fields of corporate taxation and personal taxation.

Taxation has always been major issue in corporate strategy as well asbeing a constant concern for private individuals in their wealth management, and even more so today when it is particularly difficult to predict the impacts of changes to the tax system without the help of professionals capable of devising a strategy that is adapted to the client’s specific needs.

We help you to secure your projects while proactively monitoring changes at national and international level with you, so that taxation does not become a constraint for you and can remain a source of leverage.

Thanks its lawyers’ broad international culture, the firm is able to assist both foreign and French companies with their transactions in France and abroad.

Corporate taxation

  • Tax structuring of disposals and acquisitions (LBO, MBO, Family Buyout, OBO, etc.)
  • Conduct of tax audits (VDD and tax DD)
  • Restructuring of groups (mergers, spin-offs, dissolutions)
  • Capital transactions
  • Drafting of tax clauses in transfer agreements and asset and liability guarantee agreements
  • Tax management of national and international groups (establishment of tax consolidation regimes, management fee agreements, cash pooling agreements, monitoring of reporting obligations, etc.)
  • International tax strategy (tax treaties, permanent establishment, 3% taxes, transfer pricing, VAT, customs, withholding taxes, etc.)
  • Taxation of innovative companies (research tax credit, patent licensing, etc.)

Taxation of private individuals and entrepreneurs

  • Personalised support for entrepreneurs
  • Taxation of employee shareholding schemes and management incentive plans
  • Assistance with income tax returns
  • Optimisation of personal income flows
  • Voluntary disclosure of undeclared foreign bank accounts in a succession context

Tax audits and disputes

  • Risk auditing
  • Assistance during the auditing of the company’s accounts or if the tax authority checks personal tax situations under the right-of-reply system
  • Analysis of proposed tax reassessments and preparation of responses
  • Assistance with appeals to a higher authority and representation before the Departmental tax commission and the conciliation commission
  • Tax appeals, whether appeals on legal grounds or requests on good faith to waive penalties
  • Assistance in the administrative and ordinary courts
  • Assistance in the event of tax investigation searches, blatant fraud and criminal tax law matters

Examples of
the firm’s recent activities

  • Optimising the personal taxation of shareholder-managers in an LBO context in the fire protection sector
  • Providing support for the tax structuring of restructuring operations in France and abroad
  • Monitoring and negotiating complex disputes in tax and criminal matters
  • Optimising the effective tax rate for a major industrial group
  • Optimising the personal taxation of senior managers in connection with their acquisition of a stake in a wine merchant
  • Assisting the majority shareholder and management team of a company specialising in renting metal boxes with all the taxation-related aspects of a second LBO

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