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Mr Julien Le Guyader
Work Department
Tax, Healthcare and Life Sciences
Position
Julien Le Guyader, Partner and co-Head of the Paris Life Sciences group of Dentons, concentrates on pharmaceutical law, corporate, and French and international tax law.
Julien is a tax lawyer with particular expertise in the pharmaceutical, biotech as well as the medtech sectors. He provides tax advice to a number of major pharmaceutical companies in almost every field, including mergers and acquisitions and reorganizations, with a particular emphasis on transfer pricing and specific pharmaceutical taxes.
Julien focuses on regulatory, market access, mergers and acquisitions, reorganizations and private equity matters. He assists clients with international taxation matters, whether tax planning, during tax audits and French authorities audits or during litigation.
Career
Joined Dentons (preivously Salans) in 2012
Tax advisor – Les Entreprises du Médicament – LEEM (2009 – 2012)
Ernst & Young Société d’Avocats (2007 – 2009)
Boiron (2005 – 2007)
Languages
English, French, Spanish
Memberships
Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2013
Member of the Association des Cadres de l’Industrie Pharmaceutique (ACIP)
Member of the Pharma Licensing Club de France (PLCF)
Member of the Association des Juristes de l’Industrie Pharmaceutique (AJIP)
Education
SKEMA Business School, Master 2, Business Taxation (2003)
University of Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne, Master 2, Business Law and Taxation (2002)
University of Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne, Master 2, Business Public Law (2002)
Lawyer Rankings
France > Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
Jointly led by the ‘attentive, extremely professional’ Jean-Marc Grosperrin, Julien Le Guyader, and Anne-Laure Marcerou, the team at Dentons handles the full gamut of issues in life sciences for its diverse client list, including Panasonic, Pfizer, and Laboratoires Servier. Grosperrin is particularly adept at advising global pharma corporations on domestic and cross-border M&A and private equity transactions, while Marcerou is noted for her deep knowledge of the structuring and negotiation of transactions involving biotech and medtech companies. Le Guyader regularly handles market access mandates and issues concerning international tax law. Having joined the team in February 2023 from Dechert LLP, Jessica Garestier exhibits vast regulatory expertise, particularly in relation to market access, promotion, and health product compliance. Pascale Poupelin is a key name of note within the practice, particularly for market access matters.
France > Tax
The team at Dentons advises on matters related to transactional tax, real estate tax, transfer pricing, individual tax, charities and not-for-profit tax issues. The team is a popular choice for clients in the the luxury goods, cosmetics, W&I insurance, biotechnology and medical devices sectors. Practice head Gianluca Calisti is an experienced transactional tax lawyer, with specific expertise in the real estate sector. Sandra Hazan is a key name for restructuring and transfer pricing policy advice; Julien Le Guyader focuses on pharmaceutical tax disputes and transactions; and Jérôme Le Berre has strong knowledge of the life sciences sector.
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Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: transactional work
- Industry focus: Luxury goods
- Insurance
- Intellectual property: Copyright
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
- Employment
- Industry focus: Energy
- Private equity: venture/growth capital
- EU, competition and distribution
- Insolvency
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity: Fund formation
- Private equity: LBO
- Project finance
- Real estate
- Tax
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Dispute resolution: White-collar crime
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation