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Raphaël Béra has extensive experience in the tax structuring of: - Alternative investment funds (private equity / real estate / infrastructure funds) in multiple jurisdictions, including the structuring of carried interest and co-investment mechanisms; - Mergers & Acquisitions: private M&A deals including LBOs, capital markets transactions; - Real estate transactions, including acquisitions of French real property by institutional investors and non-resident high net worth ...
With a Masters in business & taxation law and a Masters II in business creation and innovative project management from the University of Bordeaux, and specialising in law related to societies, associations and foundations, Hubert Biard has more than twenty years of experience in a number of different economic sectors.Previously a partner with Taj Law Firm, a member of the DELOITTE network, he was the head of the Bordeaux office.In addition to his technical expertise, his experience of man...
Florence Bilger is partner in the Tax department of our Paris office. She focuses her practice on the tax aspects of investments, restructurings, and mergers and acquisitions. Florence has experience representing French and international clients in their inbound investments and restructuring transactions. She also advises French clients in the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including structuring transactions, conducting due diligence, and handling post-acquisition advice and litigat...
Laurent BUTSTRAËN is co-head of the Non-Profit Organizations Department. He has developed recognized expertise in : legal and tax aspects of the incorporation and operation of associations and non-profit organizations (legal audits, tax, incorporation of structures relating to the implementation of complex projects, etc.) contractual undertakings (drafting of contracts, transactions, etc.) due diligence legal and tax audits, design and implementation of the reorganization and restructuri...
Fanny Combourieu has over 20 years of experience in tax, particularly of private equity transactions, acquisitions and disposals of companies, restructurings, real estate investments and real estate funds structuring. She has vast experience in all areas of personal tax for high-net-worth individuals, in particular regarding their real estate investments in France. She also has extensive experience in tax audits and litigation. Fanny’s clients include private equity and real estate fund...
Jacques-Henry de Bourmont represents French and international clients, companies and investment funds, in all their tax issues (tax and criminal advice and litigation, transfer pricing, management of intangible assets, asset optimization, structuring of management packages, executive compensation, real estate taxation, etc.). Admitted to the Paris and Frankfurt Bars, he has developed a recognized experience in the Franco-German sphere. He taught real estate taxation at ESSEC and was a French ...
Jean-Philippe DELSOL , a tax lawyer, is co-head of the "Merges & Acquisitions - Corporate law" Department. Alongside standard services in tax and corporate law, he has developed recognized expertise in : mergers and acquisitions : audits, letters of intent, sales protocols, asset and liability warranties, etc. LBOs : issuance of complex securities, shareholders’ agreements, etc. company restructurings : mergers, demergers, contributions recovery of struggling companies : banking neg...
Xavier DELSOL is the founder and co-head of the Non-Profit Organizations Department. He has developed recognized expertise in both advisory work and litigation in : taxation of associations and non-profit organizations organization, management and restructuring of associations and non-profit organizations collective worship law tourism law sports law culture law education law patronage and sponsorship. He works primarily for associations, foundations, endowment funds, mutual structures, profe...
With extensive experience, Henri-Nicolas Fleurance has built a solid reputation within the legal services market in the restructuring of French and international groups, taking into account legal, tax, labour and refinancing issues.Senior corporate officers appreciate Henri-Nicolas Fleurance’ comprehensive expertise (mergers and acquisitions, labour and tax aspects), along with his extensive and diversified experience, providing immediate, cutting-edge advice in the selection and implem...
Gilbert Ladreyt specialises in French and international tax law. His background as a certified public accountant has paved the way for him to develop expertise in acquisitions, corporate restructurings and equity transactions. His tax competencies in regards to private clients are also well recognised, which enables him to advise companies, as well as their managers and shareholders.Gilbert Ladreyt handles various tax disputes, particularly in the field of EU law. Gilbert Ladreyt is a member ...
Mathieu LE TACON is co-head of the « Wealth law & taxation » department. He has developed recognized expertise in asset taxation and taxation of family-run companies : taxation of restructuring operations (mergers, transfers of all assets and liabilities, founding and activation of French and foreign holding companies, active or inactive) taxation of company transfers (LBOs, OBOs, etc.) organization and optimization of asset transfers (implementation of DUTREIL agreements, man...
After nearly twenty years’ experience as a tax lawyer with the Paris offices of Landwell (1995-2005) and August & Debouzy as of counsel, Alfred LORTAT-JACOB joined the Paris Office of Cornet Vincent Segurel as a tax partner in October 2010.Alfred LORTAT-JACOB holds a Master's degree in public finance and taxation from the University of Panthéon-Assas.He advises companies and company groups, French and foreign, as well as their managements on various areas of tax law (in parti...
Vincent Schmitt’s area of practice covers tax advice and tax litigation regarding both corporate and individual clients. He is mainly involved in international operations (including transfer pricing) and complex corporate structuring, domestic and cross border mergers and acquisitions. He also advises international families with their investments in France or abroad and for international private tax planning. His practice area also covers all aspects of French tax litigation (defence fo...
Frédéric SUBRA is co-head of the LYON office’s "Wealth law & taxation" and "Corporate taxation" Departments. Alongside standard services in tax law (repeat advisory work and litigation management), he has developed recognized expertise in : taxation linked to mergers and acquisitions and more generally to company restructurings and transfers taxation of groups of companies, tax consolidation, global consolidation tax audits during closures of accounts or acquisitions, ...
Pierre-Sébastien Thill specializes in international taxation. He has been Chairman of the Management Board since July 2016. After joining the firm in 1984, he was an Associate Co-op in 1993. He co-managed the New York office from 1994 to 1997. He was a member of the Executive Board from 2000 to 2004, Chairman of the Management Board from 2004 to 2012 and Chairman of the Supervisory Board from 2012 to 2015. He was also Chairman of the Executive Committee of CMS (2003-2008) and member fr...
Paulette TRILLAT is co-leader of the “Wealth law & taxation” department in LYON. She has developed recognized expertise in : tax Law (assistance at settlement of accounts, tax reviews and audits), tax inspections and disputes, taxation of company groups and their restructurings (contributions, mergers, demergers), taxation related to estate transfers. She intervenes mainly for industrial and services companies and for individuals. Paulette TRILLAT has a DESS postgraduate quali...
Tax Law Definition
A tax lawyer helps a company or a private individual to evaluate the tax implications of their business decisions, and to choose the most tax-efficient solutions to achieve the taxpayer’s objectives. The client is reassured by the knowledge that they are in compliance not only with the letter of the law, but also - and this is a specific feature of tax law – with the spirit of the law. This is because a taxpayer who does not comply with the aim of tax legislation may breach anti-avoidance provisions (known in French as ‘abuse of law’ provisions). A tax lawyer will review and advise on taxation or double taxation paid by a taxpayer, sometimes unknowingly in the course of international transactions.
A tax lawyer will defend companies or private individuals against a determination by a revenue authority that tax deductions are either not legally funded, or that the tax paid does not reflect the true economic position of the taxpayer. That may involve the tax lawyer either seeking an agreement with the revenue authority or defending a case in a contested hearing before the courts. Such a defence will challenge the legal basis of the tax adjustment, as well as challenging the procedural fairness of the assessment and determination by the revenue authority.
Finally, a tax lawyer must defend his client against civil penalties that are often broadly imposed without consideration of the individual circumstances of a taxpayer, or against criminal offences frequently filed by the revenue authority against taxpayers. In this regard, a tax lawyer must therefore also be a criminal lawyer.
L’avocat en droit fiscal aide l’entreprise ou le particulier à déterminer les conséquences fiscales de ses décisions et à choisir la voie la moins imposée pour atteindre ses objectifs. Il lui apporte la sécurité de savoir qu’il est en conformité non seulement avec la lettre de la loi mais en outre – et ceci est une spécificité du droit fiscal – avec l’esprit de la législation, que le contribuable doit assimiler sous peine de commettre un abus de droit. Il s’attache à détecter les surimpositions ou les double-impositions que l’entreprise subit sans en avoir conscience ou bien sans parvenir à les éliminer, notamment en matière de transactions internationales. Il défend les entreprises et les particuliers face aux redressements qui ne sont pas fondés en droit, ou bien qui sont contraires à la logique économique. Pour cela l’avocat recherche soit un accord amiable avec l’administration, soit une victoire contentieuse devant le juge de l’impôt. Il ne se borne pas à contester le bien-fondé des redressements, mais il audite la régularité des opérations de contrôle et fait valoir toute irrégularité de procédure. Enfin il doit défendre son client contre les sanctions administratives que l’administration applique trop systématiquement, et contre les plaintes pénales que l’administration fiscale dépose de plus en plus fréquemment contre les contribuables : l’avocat en droit fiscal doit par conséquent être également un avocat pénaliste.
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