• Regular participation in our clients’ international operations, to aid in the implantation and development of their activity abroad.
• Permanent contact with our law-firm colleagues in the Meritas network, all over the world.
• Close links with renowned law firms in the most economically important European countries (Germany, Belgium, Spain, Luxembourg, Netherlands, United Kingdom) and in major cities in North America.
  

Specific missions related to international law

• Expertise related to optimization with respect to global taxation of companies and groups (including foreign subsidiaries), as well as issues regarding the control of price transfers among several tax jurisdictions.
  

Mergers, acquisitions and restructuring

• Study and set-up of French and international structures to optimize tax and financing;
• Attendance at the negotiation and drafting of contracts of acquisition and transfer and setting up of audits regarding tax risks;
• Study of specific tax aspects of LBOs, risk capital and investment capital;
• Reorganization of groups, compensation options for employees and managers (stock options etc.).
  
  

Tax audits and litigation

• Assistance of our French and foreign clients during tax audits, and defense of their interests;
• Assistance in their relations with the tax authorities (tax inspectors, regional commissions etc.);
• Representation before French and European Community jurisdictions in case of litigation;
• Considerable experience in this area, with some of our lawyers having worked for several years within tax administration services.
  

Relations with tax administration services

• We assume responsibility for all our clients’ procedures, in particular the presentation of requests for ministerial approval (partial provisions of assets, deficit transfer etc.), and ensure them a correct interpretation of the fiscal texts.
  

VAT and indirect rights

• Assistance regarding the specificities relevant to derogatory VAT regulations (finance, real estate) and customs regulations;
• Expertise on transactions and on methods for VAT optimization (pro rata, sectors etc.).
  

Real estate tax law

• Assistance of our clients in their real estate projects, whether estate-agent operations, promotion-construction or simple investments;
• Utilisation of specific tax regimes and resolution of complex issues of real estate VAT.
  

Individual tax law

• Assisting managers, team managers, or high income earners, on the tax aspects of estate restructuring, the acquisition of real estate property, the transfer of their company, the optimisation in the field of high income tax, succession rights and income tax;
• We take care of every issue with which liberal professionals might be confronted within the framework of their activity (association, separation, activity’ structuring) and in their personal situation (income tax, high income tax, social costs…).