Lacourte Raquin Tatar

Lacourte Raquin Tatar was established in 1993. With more than 85 qualified lawyers and legal practitioners, of whom 24 are partners, the firm is organized around three major areas of expertise: mergers and acquisitions, real estate and taxation.. These practices are enhanced by the lawyers’ recognised expertise in public, planning and environment law, financing and regulatory, asset management and litigation. All lawyers perfectly know their clients’ sectors and are able to handle any complex issues arising, both on a national level and international level.

Clients include institutions, industrial and financial groups, and investment funds. The firm’s notable clients are BNP Paribas Real Estate, Aermont, Unibail-Rodamco-Westfield, VINCI Immobilier, Ivanhoé Cambridge, Orange, SNCF/Eurostar/Thalys, Eiffage, Gecina, Kaufman & Broad, Amundi Immobilier, AXA Reim, Westbrook among others. The overriding objective of the firm is to offer its clients a high-quality service that is adapted to their specific expectations.

Mergers and acquisitions: The firm’s strong experience in both French and cross-border corporate/M&A allows the M&A team to advise its clients in all their strategic operations, joint ventures and external growth. The M&A practice focuses on transactional matters such as legal and tax structuring of transactions; acquisitions and disposals of groups of companies and assets; joint ventures and agreements between shareholders; company reorganisations; private equity, venture capital, companies’ turnarounds; corporate aspects of real estate collective investment funds (OPCI & SCPI); corporate law and specific governance issues; and disputes between share­holders and post-acquisition; securities law and capital market transactions.

Contacts: Serge Tatar, Nicolas Jüllich, Renaud Rossa, Guillaume Roche

Real estate transactions: The firm possesses expertise in all aspects of real estate for both traditional and complex transactions and operations relating to offices, shops, logistics, hotels, residential buildings, health establishments, institu­tions, investment funds, real estate companies and developers, both in an advisory role and for litigation purposes. The practice focuses on investment and dis­investment; partnership between investors, developers and users; property rights, land management, securi­ties and leases; development and construction; town planning; and regulated and unregulated real estate investment funds.

Contacts: Jean-Jacques Raquin, Cyrille Bailly, Emilie Capron, Damien Grosse, Guillaume Jeannet, Alexis Le Liepvre, Irène Cottaris, Marie-Amélie Gros

Taxation: The firm assists public and private French and inter­national clients, including industrial groups, property companies, REITs and developers, institutional inves­tors and private equity funds, on tax aspects of complex transactions, joint-ventures or reorganisations as well as in the context of tax litigations.

Contacts: Jean-Yves Charriau, Julien Souyeaux, David Sorel, Sophie Duboy

Public law: The firm advises and litigates in the various fields of public law, mainly in the areas of urban planning, public contracts and environment.
The firm's public law team acts on behalf of investors, developers, industrialists, professional federations, as well as public authorities and public service operators for the regulatory, operational and financial implementation of their projects.

The lawyers in the team have recognized experience, particularly in the real estate, urban development, environment, renewable energy, local public services and infrastructure sectors..

Contacts: Vincent Guinot, Xavier de Lesquen, Benoit Neveu

Financing:  The firm advises arrangers, lenders, debt funds, insurance companies and financial institutions on the setting-up of a wide variety of financial instruments and products. The firm assists lenders and investors to structure and implement their financing. The practice also focuses on structuring of financial vehicles and investment funds (AIF, ULITS, other AIF), asset man­agement and financial regulation

Contacts: Cédric Bonnet, Chloé Thiéblemont

Financial services:  The firm  advises investment firms, credit institutions, insurance companies and debt funds to assist them with their regulatory issues in banking (treatment of issues related to the banking monopoly, distribution of banking and insurance products) and investment services (regulatory constraints related to the provision of investment services, creation of investment services providers).

Contacts: Damien Luqué, Cédric Bonnet

Litigation: The firm assists companies, banks and insurance firms at all stages of a dispute, from the analysis of risks and their prevention. It represents clients before state courts. The practice includes: commercial litigation; real estate disputes; post-acquisition and shareholders’ disputes; restructuring of debts.

Contacts: Alexis Le Liepvre, François de Bérard, Jean-Jacques Raquin

Asset management:  The firm assists credit institutions, investment firms, participative financing platforms, management companies and institutional investors in all issues related to asset management.

For its financial institution clients, it provides services in France, the creation of management companies, investment firms, and representative offices in France, as well as the marketing of financial and banking products in France and investment services to French clients.

Contacts: Damien Luqué, David Sorel, Jean-Yves Charriau, Emilie Capron, Cyrille Bailly, Guillaume Jeannet, Nicolas Jüllich