Areas of intervention

Taxation

The tax law department operates in all fields of taxation with a pragmatic and concrete approach.

The firm supports its French and international clients with respect to all taxation consulting, operations and optimization including due diligences, acquisition structuring, etc.

  • Structuring of investments for resident and non-resident investors
  • Financing or refinancing taxation
  • Flow optimization during investments holding
  • VAT and transfer duties optimization
  • Withholding tax on business flows and then on proceeds liquidation
  • For resident and non-resident families
  • Of group of companies managers and investment funds
  • Tax audit and tax litigation

 

Corporate taxation

  • M&A taxation
  • Of intangible assets
  • Transfer pricing
  • Tax planning
  • Internal reorganization within groups of companies
  • Tax consolidation
  • Indirect taxation, VAT

 

Real estate taxation

  • Taxation of real estate acquisition and disposal (VAT, registration duties, commitment to build, real estate dealer regime)
  • Of  property management flows
  • Structuring of real estate investment for resident and non-resident investors
  • Investment vehicles SIIC / OPCI / SCPI (regulated investment vehicles – REITS)
  • Analysis of real estate qualification of investment companies
  • 3% tax on real estate held in France

 

International taxation

  • Of intra-group flows
  • Taxation of funding and investment structuring
  • Tax reporting
  • Analysis of international double tax treaties and withholding tax mechanisms and tax credit
  • Opportunities and risks of the European Court of Justice’s case law

 

Asset and wealth taxation

  • General organization of family matters and assets (companies, real estate, financial assets, work of art…), both in structuring and in contractual relationship between the different members of the family group.
  • Optimization of foreign assets ownership, implementation of appropriate structures according to the wealth and household strategy.
  • Optimization of international compensation (split payroll, analysis of relevant international conventions, search for the optimal tax residence as structures of detention depending on the location of assets and activities…).
  • Optimization of various applicable charges: income tax, capital gains tax, social security contributions, solidarity tax on wealth, gift and inheritance tax.
  • Organization of wealth transmission, implementation of secure and optimized transgenerational transfer.