The ‘technically excellent’ tax practice at Norton Rose Fulbright maintains a broad practice with expertise in key industry sectors including finance, real estate, energy, transport, technology and innovation. The group has notable expertise in tax issues involving French-speaking African jurisdictions. Antoine Colonna d’Istria helms the practice and frequently assist corporations, banks, and real estate and private equity funds with tax strategies. Mathieu Jung excels in real estate, insurance, energy and transport transactional mandates.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Technically excellent team who all provide truly commercial advice. Very responsive as a team and understand the industry.’

  • ‘Antoine Colonna - technically brilliant and highly commercial. A true trusted adviser.'

  • 'Mathieu Jung - an incredibly capable lawyer who provides truly commercial solutions to technical matters.’

Key clients

  • Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. (KKR)
  • Société Générale, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, Natixis
  • Icen Risk, Mozaic Insurance
  • Seqens
  • Egis SA
  • TTR Energy
  • Sidra Capital
  • Tikehau Capital
  • Gabon Oil Company

Work highlights

  • Advised KKR and Etche on the tax, corporate and regulatory law aspects of the acquisition of 5 buildings and over 160,000 square metres of logistic properties from Ivanhoé Cambridge.
  • Advised SEQENS on its acquisition of Novartis’ CELLforCURE site in Les Ulis (Essonne department).
  • Advising Gabon Oil Company (GOC) with respect to the acquisition of Assala Energy from Carlyle.

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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Antoine Colonna d’Istria

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Mathieu Jung