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He is mainly involved in national and international restructuring of companies, job preservation plans, collective negotiations and international mobility. In this context, he also regularly assists clients during social security audits and labour inspection audits.
Head of Insolvency & Restructuring team. Alexandre Bastos is a partner responsible for the Insolvency-Restructuring Department at CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats. His background in both law and finance is a valuable asset that enables him to embrace all aspects of the cases entrusted to him.
He is a partner at CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre's Corporate/M&A department. He specialises in corporate law, M&A and stock exchange law, he handles all aspects of mergers & acquisitions and restructurings for both listed and unlisted companies and, more specifically, the drafting of documentation and contracts, support in negotiations, acquisitions, divestments, joint-ventures, shareholders’ agreements, restructurings (mergers, asset transfers, etc.) both in France and internationally, arranging and structuring finance (equity, MBOs, MBIs), investment capital, legal audits, data room and due diligence, IPOs, stock exchange law.
Alexandre advises financial institutions and their clients in the implementation and negotiation of securitisation and structured finance transactions. Alexandre is very keen on practising law thoroughly and innovatively. His broad and in-depth experience (securitisation, LBO/OBO, trusts, ABL financing, real-estate financing, etc.) significantly enhances his advice. Alexandre pays special attention to smooth communication between parties and ensures that all the requirements and expectations of the parties, especially those of his clients, are well understood. Alexandre joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2009
She is a partner in the Real Estate Legal Department. She works in real estate law and in particular in the following areas: commercial leases, hotel leases, off-plan leases, building leases, business leases, transfers of lease rights, sales of operating assets, property sales, property development contracts, delegated project management contracts. She provides advice, drafts legal documents and acts in disputes.She has been advising both French and international clients for nearly 20 years. For 5 years, she has been a lecturer on the “Property Law” Master's degree course at the University of Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne and in the Paris Bar School, teaching commercial leases. She is part of the editorial team of Francis Lefebvre's Commercial Leases and Property Management Handbook. She was a member of the Hauts-de-Seine departmental Bar Council from 2013 to 2015. For several years she has been listed in the Chambers Europe rankings.
Partner. She specialises in international taxation with an expertise on permanent establishments, CFC and substance issues, assisting leading multinational groups in tax audits and litigation.
Partner specialist in corporate tax, Anne-Sophie assists French and international companies with the tax structuring of their reorganisations and M&A projects (including cross-border operations), French tax consolidation rules and tax litigation. She has particular expertise in the taxation of French property investment funds (SIICs, OPCIs or SCPIs) and advises high-ranking managers on issues relating to management packages.
Partner in the Tax department. Arnaud is managing the Strasbourg office of CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre. He advises international and French companies in tax structuring, tax planning and tax audit.
Arnaud Le Boulanger heads the Economics team of CMS Legal, in charge of performing analyses in the fields of transfer pricing and asset valuation. As a specialist in these fields for more than 20 years, Arnaud has carried out and led numerous studies on a world-wide basis.As transfer pricing has emerged over the years as a high-profile, strategic issue both for enterprises and tax administrations, further illustrated by the introduction of new BEPS concepts by the OECD, Arnaud has developed a comprehensive practice in this area that serves the needs of his clients both in France and at an international level. By integrating their expertise in taxation matters with expertise in economic analysis, Arnaud and his team are able to provide structured advice throughout the whole transfer pricing chain (from strategic upstream advice, through TP documentation and assistance in APAs and MAPs, to defence in tax audits and litigations). Asset valuation analysis is also a key expertise of Arnaud and his team, which is particularly important for projects that involve such matters.Arnaud joined CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre in 2003 and he became a partner in 2008.
Partner in Corporate/M&A department, he is specialising in M&A transactions, including private equity, cross-border deals and joint-ventures (including on project finance transactions). He assists corporate clients, private equity firms as well as individuals on various types of transactions and has an extensive track record in the health sector.
Arnaud Donguy is a partner in the Direct Contributions Department of CMS Francis Lefebvre. Arnaud specialises in providing advice and assistance with business taxation and corporate tax, namely, mainly: tax consolidation, internal and international restructuring operations (mergers, partial business transfers, demergers...), overlapping tax and accounting problems of tax result calculation, the practice of tax audits and interventions in acquisitions or LBO operations, structuring and arranging of finance.Arnaud also assists his clients with tax inspection issues and any resulting disputes.
Aurore-Emmanuelle Rubio is a counsel at CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats. She is an expert in decarbonation issues and in project development / management in the energy sector. Her practice focuses on renewable energies (solar, wind, hydro, biogas, hydrogen), on conventional energies (gas, oil, coal) as well as on energy demand side management (energy savings certificates mechanism). Expert in legal, regulatory and transactional issues, she is also involved in dispute resolution.
Benjamin has extensive experience in the work with clients on complex real estate transactions. He advises on a broad range of aspects related to it, including acquisition and disposal of real estate assets or companies, of French or pan-European portfolios, the structuring of projects with the creation of regulated and non-regulated investment vehicles and funds such as OPCIs and the acquisitions or disposals. Benjamin’s work also covers property development transactions, commercial leases and real estate financing. Benjamin’s client base extends private and public sectors and includes domestic and international investors, asset managers and property companies which he assists on national and cross-border real estate projects.
Partner Bertrand's international practice focuses on equity and equity-linked capital markets transactions and he has worked on numerous IPOs and other public offerings by French issuers. He has advised on most of the major capital markets transactions handled in Paris in recent years. He has also handled several sovereign bonds, yankee bonds and high-yield transactions by Francophone issuers. Bertrand brings his long experience in disclosure to prospectus drafting, but also to Transparency/Market Abuse issues arising after the IPO. He regularly advises listed companies, in particular biotechnology companies, on these issues, as well as corporate law and corporate governance ones.
Partner specialised in international taxation and transfer pricing. On this last domain, he heads the Transfer Pricing group the CMS network has put in place within the Tax practice.
Bruno Gouthière joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats on June 1, 1989.
Cathy joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1995, and became a partner in 2006. Her practice covers business taxation for enterprises and local authorities, minimum contribution based on value-added, property and land tax, tax on offices, retail and warehouse premises in Ile-de-France and occupancy tax for both corporate and individual taxpayers.
Partner and Head of the Environment Practice. She acts for a large number of French and international clients particularly in relation to environment, urban planning, renewable energy and public business law.
He specialises in direct taxation and works mainly in the field of property tax, corporate and local authority tax, taxation of restructuring and development operations, providing advice on the adaptation of structures and tax disputes and assistance with the monitoring of inspections.
He is a tax specialist with expertise in VAT matters. He works with a diverse clientele of financial institutions and mutual companies in the following areas: the VAT and indirect tax regimes of business transactions, implementation of resource-sharing groups and joint ventures, optimisation of restructuring operations (mergers/acquisitions, outsourcing), assistance with audit monitoring, management of tax adjustments and tax disputes.Christophe runs training courses at the Fédération Nationale des Sociétés d'Economie Mixte (FNSEM) on the VAT regime for public services, the FCTVA (VAT Compensation Fund) and relationships with local authorities
Christophe Frionnet is a direct taxation specialist and specifically handles matters relating to the taxation of groups of companies and non-profit organisations, wealth tax and property tax. He also regularly works on all aspects of French taxation in connection with the establishment of share option, subscription and acquisition schemes by French and foreign groups, employee savings and share ownership schemes. He also advises on LBO and LMBO projects.
Christophe Lefaillet joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1989 and became a partner in 2005. He specialises in all matters relating to consolidation and restructuring operations for listed and unlisted companies.
Christophe joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1990 and became a partner in 2006. An expert in direct taxation, he focuses mainly on issues relating to the taxation of corporate groups.
Claire is a partner of the EU law, Regulatory & Competition department, she currently assists clients, who are principally major French and foreign groups as well as public entities, on regulatory issues, competition and EU law. She enjoys a broad expertise in the field of State aid in which she is involved in various notification proceedings before the European Commission as well as litigation before ECJ. She has also developed a specific expertise on issues related to competition/EU rules applicable to public sector and in the field of electronic communications, public transports (especially railway) and networks. She also assists clients in their institutional relationships with national and European institutions regarding EU law in general. Her practice includes advise and litigation before national and EU courts.
Partner. He specialises in employment law and provides advice in collective and individual labour relations and on the employment implications of strategic decisions. He also provides and manages the employment law consequences of mergers and acquisitions and advises his clients on stock option plans and incentive plans on both a local and international level. He also assists his clients in matters of secondment.He also advises his clients in major social security adjustment cases (in negotiations with the social security administration body and in court cases).
Daniel Gutmann is a partner in the Tax Doctrine team. He is also professor of Tax Law at the University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne. He joined the firm in 2007 as of-counsel and was made a partner in 2011. His main function within the firm is to coordinate the lawyers’ position papers in cases involving a high level of legal complexity and to supervise the guidance documents and studies sent to clients. He is in constant contact with professional organisations and tax authorities and contributes through various channels to expert output in tax matters. In this regard, he is the author of a book “Droit fiscal des affaires” (Lextenso, 2015, 6th ed.), and the co-editor of a commentary (in French) on the OECD tax treaty model (Ed. Francis Lefebvre-Helbing Lichtenhahn, 2014). Finally, he is the author of numerous articles in French and international journals.
Partner in EU, Competition & Distribution. His activity covers all EU and French competition issues, including both antitrust practices and merger law. He assists companies for their French, EU or multi-jurisdictional merger notifications.He has a significant experience before French competition Authority or national courts in litigation cases related to various types of anticompetitive practices or to damage claims in relation to such practices.He advises his clients for the implementation of antitrust compliance programs.He assists his client in setting their distribution network regarding Competition law and in particular rules related to vertical restraints.He has also developed a strong expertise as regards the French specific regulation that governs restrictive practises and relations between suppliers and distributors.
Dimitar develops services dedicated to the franco-bulgarian relations, together with Jivko Sedlarski from the Sofia office of CMS RRH. He was joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 2001 and became Partner in 2017.
Dimitri Leboff joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in May 1999 and became a partner in January 2012. He specialises in corporate taxation and company group taxation including advisory, tax audits and litigation. He provides assistance to French and international groups on direct taxation issues, merger & acquisition operations, restructuring and tax audit management.
Partner specialised in international and domestic taxation. He advises on mergers and acquisitions and cross-border restructuring, tax audits and litigations, and non-resident real estate investments. His clients include multinationals, partnerships, financial institutions and high net worth individuals.
Elisabeth Ashworth joined the Tax Intelligence Department of CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in May 2008. She works closely with the VAT units which are made up of about 30 lawyers, of which seven partners.Former individual member of the EU VAT Expert Group working with the EU Commission (2012-2014), Elisabeth is head of the VAT subgroup of the CMS Tax practice area group. She also co-leads the VAT Commission of the IACF (French Tax lawyers association).She works closely with various business organisations such as MEDEF and AFEP.
Partner. She assists investors as well as developers in the context of development projects in all their components of real estate law and public law. She also has litigation practice in public law.
Florentin is a counsel active in contentious and non-contentious matters in various areas of expertise including media, advertising, entertainment, copyright, data protection, e-commerce, trademarks and business law. He has developed a strong practice in advising on media and advertising regulation as well as on production and exploitation of podcasts and of audiovisual, cinematographic, musical, literary and advertising works.
Public contracts (including public procurement contracts, concessions, PPP). Public property, urban planning, environment, public entities financing, public institutions. state aids.
François Hellio has over twenty-five years' professional experience and is involved in all aspects of international taxation, particularly in transfer pricing and litigation.Having spent more than six years in the Berlin office, he has developed an expertise in Franco-German taxation. His publications focus mainly on this expertise. He is the author of reference works on French taxation in Germany and numerous articles on taxation both in France and Germany.His clients are mainly French and foreign listed corporate groups or family businesses.
François Lacroix joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1980. He became a partner in 1998. François specialises in corporate direct taxation and deals more specifically with restructurings and mergers & acquisitions, as well as property and finance taxation.
François Coutard is a partner in the Employment Law team of CMS Francis Lefebvre Lyon.
Frédéric is a partner at CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats specialising in direct taxes. He handles all aspects of company taxation. Frederic has developed specific expertise in reorganisations, tax consolidation and, more generally, in corporate taxation of French and international groups. He usually advises companies in (i) the implementation and management of their tax policies, (ii) their relationships with the tax authorities (either for tax ruling requests or during tax audits), and (iii) tax litigation. He also has a detailed knowledge of tax issues in the property sector. He regularly assists various property stakeholders, including key French REITs.Frédéric has been with CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats since 1999. He worked at the New York office from June 1999 to September 2000 and became a partner in 2015.
Gaëtan Berger-Picq joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1997 and became a partner in 2008.Gaëtan specializes in VAT planning and consultancy, particularly in real-estate VAT.
Partner. His practice embraces both advice and contentious work for a clientele made up of French and foreign businesses, principally in the following areas: large scale restructurings; duration of work (evening work - Sunday work …) ; employee representative ; executive careers ; contributions adjustments ; individual and collective litigation ; URSSAF litigation. Ghislain is also the author of a successful pleading before the Constitutional council of the French Republic.
Guillaume Bossy is a partner lawyer in the employment law department of CMS Francis Lefebvre Lyon.
Guillaume is a consel specializes in insolvency law, corporate restructuring, acting both as counsel and litigation lawyer : Insolvency prevention & restructuring (whistleblowing procedures (procédures d'alerte), negotiating with creditors (debt restructuring, standstill agreements, etc.), implementing refinancing agreements, prevention procedures: mandat ad hoc, conciliation, insolvent business restructuring and acquisitions; Insolvency procedures (sauvegarde, redressement judiciaire and liquidation judiciaire), whether on behalf of the business, creditor, purchaser or shareholders and Litigation, specifically in relation to insolvent businesses, including in the event of conflicting creditors’ rights (e.g., direct legal action), liability actions against managing officers (dirigeants), etc. He joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2010.
Jean-Charles Benois joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2012 (and was co-opted as a partner in 2019). He is involved in tax law, and in particular in company group taxation as well as in transactional and Private Equity taxation. He also assists private persons, shareholders and directors, in their personal and asset taxation affairs. Jean-Charles Benois assists his clients as a tax advisor, but also in the context of tax controversies before the tax authorities and/or tax courts
Jean-Christophe joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1987 and became a partner in 1999. With an expertise in national and international taxation, he focuses mainly on the following areas: taxation of international groups and transfer pricing, providing support for tax inspections and representing international groups, asset taxation and the taxation of research & innovation
Jean-Eric joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1989 and is currently Head of the Corporate – M&A Department. He became a partner in 2003. He handles all aspects of mergers & acquisitions and restructurings for both listed and unlisted companies: drafting documentation and legal instruments, assisting with merger negotiations, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, shareholders’ agreements, restructuring programmes (mergers, asset transfers, etc.) both in France and abroad, arranging and structuring finance (equity, MBOs, MBIs), investment capital, legal audits, data room and due diligence, IPOs and stock exchange law.
Partner specialised in civil law, commercial law, enforcement measures and criminal business law including criminal tax matters.
Jean-Philippe Bidegainberry joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1997.A tax specialist, Jean-Philippe assists French and international groups with their taxation matters, in particular: assistance with group tax management (calculation of taxable revenue, deficit management, intra-group relationships), assistance with tax consolidation (setting up tax consolidations, preparing consolidated tax returns, monitoring of deferred tax liabilities, complex issues), assistance with restructuring and financing operations and assistance with tax inspections and disputes.
Partner in direct taxation. Jean-René Bénichou joined Bureau Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1987.
Jean-Thomas Heintz is a partner in the Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions team at CMS Francis Lefebvre Lyon.
Partner, Head of Financial Services: Asset management (funds structuring with an emphasis on alternative investment funds), investment and banking regulations (with an emphasis on innovative productsl e-money andmarketing) and derivatives.
Partner in international taxation. He advises clients on all tax issues related to mergers and acquisitions, intragroup reorganizations, real estate investments and financial products, usually on transactions with a cross-border dimension. In this context, he assists multinational groups, investments funds and financial institutions. Johann joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 2006 and became Partner in 2017.
Partner specialised in international taxation. He handles questions related to corporate taxation, and more specifically cross-border restructuring and M&A, real estate investments, transfer pricing, international tax litigations.
Kawthar Ben Khelil is a Counsel within the Public law Department of CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats. She is active in public business law and in particular in the following areas: public contracts (including public procurement contracts, concessions, public-private partnerships, contracts of occupancy of the public domain, complex contractual agreements) and other issues in relation to public law (public property law, financing of public entities, public sector entities, social housing, public subsidies, etc).
Laurent Chatel specialises in local taxation. A partner at the firm since 2003, he works on Territorial Economic Contribution (CET) matters (involving corporate property tax (CFE) and company value-added contributions (CVAE)), property tax on buildings and unbuilt land, tax on certain premises in Ile-de-France, occupancy tax for corporate and individual taxpayers, local tax on external advertising (TLPE) and street tax, tax on commercial premises (TASCOM), public electricity service contributions (CSPE), tax on the removal of household refuse, etc. He assists businesses and public institutions in his areas of expertise both in terms of advice and litigation, and with audits. He also helps local communities more generally to manage their relationships with the State.Laurent has been lawyer at CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats since 1990, having started his career with Arthur Andersen Legal. He supports over 700 businesses annually, both with their everyday tax management and with the fiscal implications of their external development or restructuring projects, in all economic sectors in France (agriculture, industry, construction, transport, banking, insurance, distribution, wholesale, energy, delegation of public services, media, services, etc.). He is a member of the tax committees of several professional organisations (such as MEDEF, AFIC, SFIF, UNICEM, CGI, etc.) and was an expert auditor during the Taxation Conference (a committee set up in 2014 to reform the French tax system) in early 2014.
Partner in banking & finance. He is particularly involved in banking and insurance transactions and regulations.
Partner specialised in Corporate taxation. He advises French and international groups on all tax related matters. He frequently works in the area of M&A and Private Equity with a particular expertise in the tax structuring of operations and acquisitions in France. He also assists entrepreneurs, shareholders and managers on personal tax issues.
Partner specialises in direct taxation and works mainly on restructuring operations in the property field (mergers, outsourcing), property tax, group tax and tax disputes and assistance with monitoring audits.Ludovic Duguet joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 2006.
Partner, Head of Capital Markets: Debt Capital Markets (plain-vanilla and structured bonds. European private placements, EMTN programmes, hybrid instruments, covered bonds, high yield, commercial paper and liability management transactions), Equity Capital Markets (IPO, convertible and exchangeable bonds) and Structured Derivatives.
Maxime assists local and international clients in legal counselling and litigation, in particular in the following fields: Intellectual Property, Information Technology, Personal data protection, Media and communications, Sport Law and Commercial Law.
He has an extensive experience in assisting inbound and outbound investments. He assists French and foreign banks, funds, multinationals and high net individuals in M&A transactions, financings and real estate investments. Michel also advises high net worth individuals, mainly artists and, sportmen. Michel also assists countries in the design of their tax policy and negociation of tax treaties.
Partner in EU, Competition & distribution. She is highly involved in national and EU competition law, restrictive practices and commercial negotiations, and distribution strategy, as well as in the law of sales promotions and advertising. A large number of her clients are leading businesses in their sectors, for whom compatibility between their commercial policy and competition law is an important strategic issue. She has often acted on vertical agreement matters in relation to recommended prices.Lecturer at University Paris Saclay in competition law (Master 2 Droit de la concurrence et des contrats).
Nicolas Cailles joined the Employment Law Department of CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1990 and became a partner in 2001.Nicolas manages a team that provides advice and handles disputes in collective and individual labour relations and on the employment implications of strategic decisions.
Partner. Olivier Dutheillet de Lamothe joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 2014 as Counsel with responsibility for the employment and pensions practice's Intelligence, Scientific Development and Knowledge Management Department. Olivier was made partner in 2015.
Olivier de Saint Chaffray joint CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats's Taxation Department in 1994. As an expert in tax matters, his practice focuses on providing advice (legal opinion or documents) and on litigation in the following fields: corporate taxation (day-to-day practice in direct taxation and taxation and restructuring associated with M&A, tax inspections), advice to individual clients (wealth and estate planning) and the taxation of property and the financial sector.
Partner. He is specialised in civil law, general business law, enforcement measures, and criminal business law
Philippe Donneaud started his career in the Taxation Department of CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats, which he joined in 1995 and where he has been a partner since 2007.He covers all aspects of direct taxation for companies and their executives, both advice and litigation, but specifically carries out his work in the property and investment capital sectors. He mainly assists his clients in the tax planning, structuring and management of their various operations.His qualifications get him regularly involved in the taxation aspects of mergers and acquisitions, corporate groups, transfer of assets and financial flows. He regularly hosts conferences and training for Francis Lefebvre Formation et Business Immo.He is the co-author responsible for the taxation section of the book Immobilier de l’Entreprise, Ed. Economica, Collection L’immobilier en perspectives.
Partner in direct taxation Expert in direct taxes specialized in the following subject matters: Corporation tax; Personal income tax; Real estate and finance taxation; Tax system of semi-public companies and local authorities.
Pierre works specifically in the field of corporate and group taxation, with particular regard to the fiscal structuring of mergers & acquisitions and restructuring activities, group tax management and assistance with litigation proceedings, in matters of real estate taxation and for mixed-economy companies and local authorities, taxation of public-private partnerships, tax inspection procedures and tax litigation. He joined in 2002 and became Partner in 2017.
Pierre Dedieu is a partner in CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats's International Taxation team. Pierre joined the firm in 1999 and became a partner in 2009. Pierre specialises in matters relating to international restructuring operations, real estate investments, cross-border transactions (investment income, leasing, hybrid transactions), international mobility and transfer pricing. Since 2009 he has become a leading expert on disclosure and in litigation concerning foreign assets belonging to French residents.
Pierre-Jean Douvier specialises in international law. He co-manages the International team. His four main areas of expertise are advice to private clients (family office, legal, regulatory, immigration law, tax issues, asset protection, restructuring of wealth, wealth transfer techniques and trusts/foundations with respect to civil law, succession, international tax litigation and tax audits, etc); property law (from both the legal and tax perspectives): purchase, restructuring/investment, management – mainly for families; Monaco: corporate, regulatory and tax law; transfer pricing/permanent establishment/effective management of entities. For 8 years, he was the only expert in European and international law registered with the French courts.
Pierre-Sébastien Thill is an expert in international taxation. Pierre-Sébastien has specialised in international taxation for 28 years, acting as an international tax partner in the firm. He co-managed the International Taxation Department comprising 15 partners and 30 associates. He regularly provides advice to international groups, focusing particularly on issues relating to M&A transactions, corporate reorganisations and the structuring of investment funds
Raphaël Bordier is a partner in CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats’s Employment Law Department. He has worked in employment law and social welfare law for more than twenty years, both advising and litigating on behalf of French and foreign companies. is focus areas include all individual and collective labour relations as well as the management of employment disputes. He has extensive experience in personnel representation and management of labour relations, as well as in the employment aspects of company transfers and restructures.
Partner in Tax. He intervenes particularly in real estate taxation, wealth taxation, corporate taxation and is especially recognized for his expertise in tax litigation
Partner in employment and pensions. He is mainly involved in litigation in relation to disputes pending before the employment and social security tribunals.
Romain is a tax specialist and works on advisory and litigation issues for French and international groups, notably in the insurance field.
Coordinates the tax litigation and controversy group of the firm (domestic and international tax issues). Extensive experience on international taxation, interpretation and application of tax treaties.
Stéphane Gelin is Head of the CMS Tax Group. In this position, he leads an international team of 400 tax lawyers. He specialises in international taxation and transfer pricing. He has advised French and international multinational corporations in this field for nearly thirty years. He has participated in several major projects involving the structuring of global transfer pricing, operational restructuring and the documentation of French and foreign transfer pricing. He offers his clients assistance in French and international tax litigation (specifically competent authority procedures, arbitration procedures and advance pricing agreements). He also advises clients on international financing matters, cross-border restructuring, joint ventures and acquisitions.
He has substantial experience in advising corporate clients on employment law issues. His expertise primarily covers the transfer and takeover of businesses, restructurings, pension plans, collective bargaining and collective dismissals. He is specialised in employment law, and especially in collective and individual labour relations and the employment implications of strategic decisions.
His practice mainly focuses on international taxation, particularly in relation to mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate reorganisations and capital markets. He has extensive expertise in tax-efficient structuring of cross-border transactions, including notably LBOs, build-up, group restructuring and real estate acquisitions.
Thomas Laumière is a partner in the Tax law team of CMS Francis Lefebvre.
Partner specialised in employment law and pensions. He provides advice in collective and individual labour relations as well as incentive plans and restructuring and outsourcing plans. He also advises his clients on the employment implications of their strategic decisions.
Xavier Daluzeau specialises in international taxation. His main practice areas are transfer pricing, reorganisations and acquisitions: international and supply chain restructuring, transfer pricing planning and documentation, tax audit and litigation, procedures leading to the elimination of double taxation and advance pricing agreements.