Expertise: International Tax, Private Wealth, Business and Litigation
Alphard Law's practice is dedicated to international taxation and to the matters it governs: the mobility of individuals, the structuring and transmission of wealth, corporate transactions and cross-border establishment, and the defence of taxpayers before the French administrative and judicial courts. The firm combines a tax practice led by Antoine Gouin and Hugo Marchadier with a corporate and finance practice led by Galina Petrova, partner, allowing it to structure transactions and carry out their legal execution without intermediation.
International tax and mobility
International taxation: tax residence, treaties, permanent establishment, transfer pricing, cross-border flows and French reporting compliance. The core of the firm's practice.
Expatriation and international mobility: preparing a departure from France, the French exit tax, non-resident obligations, moving to France and the inpatriate regime.
Voluntary disclosure of foreign assets: bringing accounts, policies and structures held outside France into compliance, and defence against demands from the French tax authority.
Private wealth and succession
Private wealth taxation: choice of ownership vehicle, French real estate wealth tax, split ownership, life insurance, trusts and foreign structures.
International estate planning: applicable law, territoriality of French inheritance tax, double taxation, trusts, planning and administration of cross-border estates.
Business, transactions and litigation
Business and founder taxation: tax regime, founder remuneration, BSPCE and management packages, contribution-and-sale, international development.
Mergers and acquisitions: disposals, acquisitions, restructurings and leveraged transactions, led by the tax practice and executed in-house.
Corporate law: articles of association, shareholders' agreements, capital transactions and corporate housekeeping, drafted with their tax consequences in view.
Financing: structured and syndicated facilities, acquisition finance and LBOs, security documentation, acting for lenders and borrowers alike.
Tax litigation: audits, reassessment notices, claims and suspension of payment, then defence before the French administrative and judicial courts.
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