Advice and consultation on all following matters

Property law

1. Purchase of real estate property in France

Commercial property
Buy-to-let / leasebacks
Off-plan purchasing
Landlord & tenant
Buying through a company
French mortgage contract review
House insurance contract review

2. Other transactions

Sale and purchase of buildings and building plots, audit of the property’s situation, drafting contracts Creating companies, sale of shares in real estate holding partnerships
Property subdivision and sale
Assignment of commercial leases
pre-emption : dispute and implementation

3. Construction

Development operations : Drafting contracts, Putting guarantees into place, Construction litigation
Claims on guarantees and delivery of the property , claiming under the statutory ten-year warranty, urgent summary proceedings and expert assessment

4. Building management

Leases : Drafting and managing litigation concerning commercial, professional and residential leases Litigation concerning leasing agreements

Joint ownership/Building management syndicates : Disputes concerning the communal areas/private areas, decisions adopted by general meetings, and the powers of the co-owners’ agent (Syndic)
Creation and management of building management syndicates and associations

Estate agents : Professional disputes / sale mandates

5. Town planning / architecture

Building permits : advising on their drafting, litigation , Expropriation

6. Inheritance planning

Change of matrimonial regime, Wills, Donations, Sharing properties

Family law : advice and divorce options, negociation & settlement of financial interests, children custody, agreement, between non married partners.

Tax Law

1. Self assement : Assistance in drafting income tax returns, returns for French wealth tax (“ISF”),
Analysing the tax impacts for marriage, adoption, donations of estate, trans-generational analysis and localising successions.

2. Inheritance tax planning

3. Capital Gains Tax assessment

4. International tax matters
Analysing revenue flows from foreign sources, structuring wealth and assets and localising revenues, expatriation, impact of French wealth and revenue sources for non French tax-resident, audit of risks in locating one’s tax domicile in France

5. Tax litigation
Preparatory audit and analysis of tax risks, determining strategy to be adopted, assistance during tax inspections (i.e. personal situation, wealth and gratuitous transmission of personal estate - donation or inheritance), assistance in tax litigation both for residents and non-residents, representation before administrative courts and ordinary courts of law, etc.

Criminal law

• Assistance and representation in front of police officers, prosecutor, magitrate in charge of investigations
• Supension and cancellation of driving licence