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Counsel for lives, work and assets that connect France with other countries

Residence, international tax and structure, considered together. Before the move, the deal or the sale, while the choices are still open.

Residence and international tax

Where you live, where you pay tax, and what France expects when you arrive or leave.

  • Tax residence review under French law and the relevant treaty
  • Tax residence on arrival or departure
  • Exit tax and leaving France
  • Impatriate regime for senior executives, going forward and for past years
  • Executive relocation, alongside employers of record
  • Equity incentives: management packages, warrants, free shares
  • Residence status for investors, founders, executives and their families
  • EU sanctions questions for individuals: banking, compliance and access to assets in France
Impatriate regimeCross-border tax and regularisationTalent Passport and residence permits
Private wealth and structuring

How wealth is held across borders, decided before the money moves.

  • Structuring wealth before a move to France
  • Clients between several jurisdictions, including the UK, the UAE and Panama
  • Holding and investment companies for family wealth
  • Investments held in several countries, under French residence rules and tax treaties
  • Real estate in France: ownership structure, financing, wealth tax
  • Cross-border succession and lifetime gifts
Cross-border Strategy NoteProperty and succession
Companies and investors

The French side of international groups, founders and investors.

  • Setting up or acquiring a French subsidiary for an international group
  • Inbound investments into France: structure, tax treaties, holding location
  • Sale of a business: planning before the deal and reinvesting the proceeds
  • Founders arriving in or leaving France with their holding
  • Cross-border teams: secondments, payroll and permanent establishment risk
  • Tax audits with an international dimension
Company formation and structuring
CLIENTS
EXECUTIVES OF INTERNATIONAL GROUPS
Relocated, seconded or hired in France, often with equity in a group abroad.
FOUNDERS AND BUSINESS OWNERS
Companies in several countries, a holding to organise, sometimes a sale ahead.
FAMILIES MOVING TO OR FROM FRANCE
Investments, property and pensions that need to be in order before the move.
LIVES BETWEEN SEVERAL COUNTRIES
Part of the year in France, part elsewhere, and a tax position that has to hold.
INTERNATIONAL GROUPS AND INVESTORS
A French subsidiary, an acquisition or an investment, with the tax and people side done right.
METHOD
Map the whole situation

Residence, tax and investment questions are looked at together, before anything is filed.

Decide in writing

A written note with your options, the risks and the recommended route.

Execute and follow up

Applications, filings and correspondence handled until the outcome.

How fees are set

FOR ADVISERS

You advise international clients. I take care of the French legal side.

Wealth managers, private bankers, family offices, accountants, notaires, mortgage brokers and relocation firms regularly need a French avocat for their clients’ residence, tax and investment questions. I work alongside you, within a clearly defined scope, and keep you informed as the matter allows.

CLEAR SCOPE
Your client receives a written proposal; your own role stays untouched.
ONE COUNSEL
Residence, tax and structuring handled together, in English or French.
DISCRETION
Everything is covered by legal professional privilege (secret professionnel de l’avocat).
Introduce a client or discuss working together

A first conversation, in confidence.

Everything you share is covered by legal professional privilege (secret professionnel de l’avocat), from the first contact.

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