Grant Thornton Société d’Avocats

Anne Frede

Managing Partner

Caroline Luche-Rocchia

Partner, head of employment practice

Elvire Tardivon-Lorizon

Elvire Tardivon-Lorizon is a partner in charge of the VAT / indirect taxes / international trade / local tax department. She joined Grant Thornton Société d’Avocats in 2011. She advises large (listed and non-listed) and medium sized national and international groups performing cross-border inbound and outbound transactions on their overall indirect tax issues (such as VAT, customs duties, payroll tax, C3S, insurance premium tax, environmental taxes, energy taxes etc.). She assists them in their ordinary and non-recurrent activities. Elvire also helps companies to optimise their flows of goods and services from an indirect tax standpoint and to improve their cash flow. Elvire handles tax audits and is involved in negotiations with the French tax administration. She also manages tax litigation and files on a regular basis ruling requests with the French tax administration.

Natalia Moya-Fernández

Natalia Moya-Fernandez is a partner in charge of the Intellectual Property and Information Technology law department. She advises French and international companies in the management of their daily legal issues regarding to intellectual property law, in particular in the implementation of their intellectual property management policy: protection and defence strategy for trademarks, patents and designs, drafting and negotiation of contracts in the field of industrial property, R&D, copyright and image rights, software and databases. She has developed a strong expertise in advertising law. Natalia defends the interests of company leaders in IP infringement matters, domain name usurpation and unfair competition before the courts as well as national and international administrative and arbitration authorities (INPI, EUIPO, WIPO, AFNIC).

Pascal Luquet

Pascal Luquet is a partner in charge of the Transfer pricing team. He assists companies of all sizes and in all sectors of activity with their international tax and transfer pricing issues. His team masters all the tax, financial and economic aspects of transfer pricing. It assists companies in defining, documenting (including benchmarks and economic analyses) and defending transfer prices in a national or international context (tax audit and litigation, international procedures for the prevention and elimination of double taxation). His team also manages permanent establishment (identification and allocation of profits) and digital tax issues.

Sahra Hagani

Sahra Hagani is a partner in charge of the Economic Law department. She advises our clients on matters relating to distribution law, contract law and consumer law. She assists French and international companies in the deployment of their commercial activities and their market strategy, both as counsel and in litigation. Sahra supports companies of all sizes in the drafting and negotiation of contracts (distribution, industrial, subcontracting, etc.), in implementing and protecting physical and digital distribution networks, in the audit and optimisation of companies' commercial and pricing policies, and in structuring and securing commercial relationships with consumers. She specialises in issues relating to the digitalisation of BtoB and BtoC distribution activities, bringing her expertise in the implementation and compliance of websites and marketplaces. She regularly works in the tourism, industry, retail and e-commerce sectors.

Stéphane Bénézant

Stéphane Bénézant

Partner

Stéphany Brévost

Stéphany Brévost is a partner in charge of the Direct and Transaction Tax department. She joined Grant Thornton Société d'Avocats in 2008. She advises French and foreign groups on their day-to-day tax management as well as on their investment projects in France and abroad. She has more than 20 years’ experience focusing on tax due diligence, tax structuring, tax modeling review and cash repatriation projects for corporate investors or private equity funds. She also advises them on their operational reorganisations both in France and cross-border. Stéphany has a large experience in managing and supervising multi-jurisdictions tax due diligences and in negotiating tax clauses of SPA. She works in various sectors such as digital services, variety of manufacturing business, defense industry, IT services, healthcare and renewable energy.

Thibaut Grange

Thibaut, who joined in Grant Thornton Société d’Avocats in 2011 is a Partner in the Direct and Transaction Tax team of the law firm. He advises French and international groups on all tax-related matters from day-to-day issues to investment or reorganization projects, both locally and abroad. He acts for large international companies operating in different sectors including innovation, IT, hospitality, industry and services, and he has also worked for non-profit organizations. Thibaut has also gained proven experience in negotiating with the tax authorities and supports client companies in their tax audits and disputes with the authorities.