Practices

Avocats à la Cour | French Attorneys at Law

TAX LAW

Our lawyers put their skills and experience at the service of companies and individuals who wish to manage their tax affairs actively and efficiently, either in the day-to-day running of their business or on exceptional transactions in which they are involved.

Taxation of transactions

  • Tax due diligence
  • Tax structuring
  • Tax review of business models
  • Computation of registration duties, capital gains tax, latent taxes, taxes on net sales proceeds repatriation
  • Negotiation and drafting of the tax provisions of transactional documents
  • Coordination of cross-border operations

Tax management 

  • Daily, strategic or contentious management of taxes
  • Opportunity for optimization, claim, tax ruling, tax restructuring/refinancing
  • Tax compliance
  • Assistance in tax audit
  • Tax litigation

International tax assistance for private clients

  • Taxation of artists, sportspeople, high net worth individuals
  • Structuring of French and foreign wealth
  • Transfer of residence / assets
  • French aspects pertaining to trusts
  • Assistance in the settlement of international estates

REAL ESTATE & URBAN PLANNING LAW

  • Securing the acquisition of a real estate through a careful analysis of the property to be purchased
  • Review and negotiation of contracts in connection with the following :
    1. Development of a real estate project
    2. Property management operations
    3. Sale or purchase of a real estate
    4. Financing of a real estate project and real estate securities
  • Planning future operations by working alongside the surveyor and architect to complete planning applications, to manage land divisions issues, to deal with easements and to set up management tools to ensure the organization of real estate complexes

CORPORATE & BUSINESS LAW

  • Negotiation and drafting of commercial contracts including the sale or lease of businesses, licensing agreements among other services
  • Incorporation of companies
  • Acquisition and sale of companies
  • Financing operations
  • Creation of specific governance
  • Coordination of cross-border operations
  • Incentive mechanisms for employees and corporate officers
  • Implementation of joint-venture agreements

MANAGEMENT PACKAGES, EXECUTIVE COMPENSATION, RETIREMENT, INTERNATIONAL MOBILITY SERVICES

  • Management packages: expert support for implementing employee share schemes, tax and social optimization of share-based compensation plans
  • Executive compensation: comprehensive auditing of compensation tools, estimation of tax and social security costs, implementation of compensation strategies
  • Retirement planning & International mobility services
  • Business transfers between family members (e.g. Dutreil Pact)