‘The Bredin Prat tax team as a whole is at the forefront of the French private equity market. The cumulative experience of the team and the volume of transactions on which they work are a real added value for clients who can thus be informed in real time of the latest market practices.’

‘Jean-Florent Mandelbaum is probably one of the most advanced tax experts on the French Private Equity market, with extremely strong expertise in the aspects of structuring and in particular of those of the investment managers.’

‘Every team member is excellent – no weak point. Seamless combination of tax and M&A practices.’

‘Jean-Florent Mandelbaum stands out ; he quickly understands all the details of a complex case, immediately raises the relevant and difficult questions, and provides top notch, business-driven analysis and advice.’

‘The team is excellent, they are very professional and absolutely knowledgeable. Quality of their tax opinion is not behind anybody in France. Capacity of understanding business and client’s need are also key success factors.’

‘Yves Rutschmann and Sébastien de Monès are absolutely tier 1 tax lawyers.’

‘Team dedicated to tax law with a 360° view on the subject. Great capacity for initiative and analyses on all tax issues ranging from operational taxation to structuring’.

‘François Lugand and his team, including Pierre Lucas, are clearly the best tax lawyers in Paris. they have a very strong ability to innovate, find solutions to problems, anticipate all needs. They are deal makers, know how to make you make the right decisions, and are decisive.’

‘The team is proactive.’

‘Fabien Billaert is generally very available to his clients and finds pragmatic solutions that can easily be implemented by companies. Nathalie Habibou assists us on VAT and provides very operational advice. She knows how to adapt to her interlocutor.’

‘Responsiveness and competence, and good listening to the customer’.

‘Denis Andres has considerable experience. Yoann Chemama shows great responsiveness and pragmatism’.

‘Arsene has a very competent, responsive and business oriented team. It always knows how to understand the needs of its clients, seeks out the best specialists according to the issues at stake and ultimately finds innovative and appropriate solutions.’

‘Very professional team, extremely competent, available and benefiting from a very strong credibility with the administration.’

‘Jean-Charles Benois: knows perfectly the problems of our company. Excellent advice, always available, fast, knowledgeable. Alexia Cayrel: enormous capacity for work, precise, high quality work that gives confidence’.

‘A dynamic, responsive, involved and technically very high quality team’.

‘Availability. Responsiveness. Quality of advice. Ability to have a business vision. Ability to understand clients’ issues’.

‘CMS Francis Lefebvre’s response has always been of high quality and has very often enabled me to resolve disputes with the tax authorities.’

‘I mainly work with Anne-Sophie Rostaing. I appreciate her availability, knowledge of our group, responsiveness in handling my requests and the relevance of her analyzes on often very specific subjects.’

‘The firm does an exceptional job at making you feel like their most important client!’

‘Edouard Milhac is always available, responsive and provides advice in a cogent, clear manner.’

‘Fast, efficient and relevant.’

‘The team is very familiar with indirect real estate investments and real estate joint-ventures. Ability to provide cross-border France-Germany advice in an integrated manner.’

‘Ability to review financial documents and BPs from a fiscal but also financial perspective. Provides decision-making support in a complex environment. The team is always very courteous and available.’

‘Extensive knowledge of corporate taxation and management issues. International approach which allowed us to understand taxation issues from a European point of view. Excellent knowledge of the taxation of the managers’.

‘Responsive, transparent, efficient, cost-conscious.’

‘Paul de France is an excellent professional, informative, inventive, daring and skilful.’

‘Confidence, technicality, constancy, responsiveness, proactivity, availability. Their memos are very concise and very clear, and they know how to take a stand.’

‘Olivier Dauchez is a reference and a gifted tax lawyer on the market. Beyond his indisputable technical skills, he has this ability to take a step back from issues at hand. He perfectly masters underlying financial and legal mechanisms, and understands the real issues facing companies. He is also a very friendly, responsive and available person.’

‘Bertrand Jouanneau is very responsive. In terms of invoicing, Bertrand is organized in such a way as to offer packages with caps, which are rather well calibrated from the start and on which we generally do not have to go back.’

‘Charles-Henri de Gouvion Saint-Cyr works in perfect coordination with other Goodwin teams, whether for fund structuring or a transaction. He has a perfect knowledge of his customers which facilitates our interactions (no need to explain our structure or internal constraints). He responds directly and simply to tax issues!’

‘Charles-Henri de Gouvion Saint Cyr is available and fast. He applies a transactional approach to taxation – talking directly with his clients’ counterparties’.

‘The tax team has deep technical knowledge of the French tax law and is able to convey tax analysis in a structured and comprehensive manner.’

‘Charles-Henri de Gouvion Saint Cyr provides very good coverage from the French tax perspective, including providing extensive tax analysis on complex matters, reviewing contractual documentation and also putting together financial models highlighting tax implications.’

‘Reactive, professional, provides solutions. Appreciated by management teams, friendly. Very good value for money’.

‘Goodwin’s tax law team is of high quality. They show high availability, thoroughness, editorial excellence, inventiveness and are deal makers. It is always an asset to have them as adviser on transactions.’

‘Charles-Henri de Gouvion Saint Cyr is an excellent tax lawyer. Reactive and rigorous, he was able to support us with precision, both during due diligence work and on structuring issues.’

‘Commercial team, ready to provide support and useful advice at every stage of the process.’

‘The team has a very good understanding of issues raised and clients’ needs, with an approach that is both technical and pragmatic, enabling them to fully meet expectations.’

‘Thomas Claudel, counsel, perfectly meets clients’ needs by being both technical and pragmatic.’

‘Thomas Claudel is brilliant. He simply explains complex issues and finds creative solutions to ad hoc problems.’

‘Nadine Gelli and Sonia Bouaffassa are both excellent practitioners, who offer solutions taking into account international and corporate constraints.’

‘Extraordinary technical mastery.’

‘Nadine Gelli is clearly above the rest with a technical mastery, far above her colleagues on complex subjects, and has a remarkable ability to clearly explain even the most complex subjects.’

‘Nadine Gelli combines both immense professional and personal qualities. Her skills are real and go well beyond the French borders alone.  She makes herself available.’

‘Efficient, creative; ability to think “out of the box”, good international network’.

‘Ability to support clients over time with balanced advice; ability to innovate and resolve difficulties while maintaining a concern for sustainable and reliable tax structures.’

‘Extremely technically competent in the tax transactional field (M&A and similar transactions) and great knowledge of the market, practices and innovations (structuring, guarantees, arrangements); provide highly relevant and useful analysis and decision-making support; conduct effective negotiations.’

‘Nadine Gelli and Sonia Bouaffassa are always available, with a great ability to work within very tight deadlines. They have the ability to discuss both technical points with the tax department and to translate the complexities of tax points and their financial/legal issues to non-specialist interlocutors. Finally, they provide real added value in terms of complex structuring, allowing the client to have realistic and secure options.’

‘Unparalleled expertise in real estate tax law’.

‘Jean-Yves Charriau is a key figure; David Sorel is a rising figure, in the succession of Jean-Yves’.

‘Team understands the financial stakes and is able to transcribe in a very comprehensible way the financial / tax / accounting impacts of a decision (in particular by avoiding lengthy notes but with very clear Excel tables).’

‘Jean-Yves Charriau is undoubtedly one of the best lawyers on the market in terms of real estate taxation in particular. His understanding of financial issues makes him a definite asset.’

‘Jean-Yves Charriau: quality of advice, reliability and flawless investment.’

‘Excellent knowledge of the real estate market and its practices; excellent technical skills and ability to propose innovative and creative solutions; excellent pro-activity and responsiveness; always available. For me, it is the best team on the market’.

‘Very good team for translating US tax complexities into French issues. Reactive and efficient.’

‘Strong litigation skills.’

‘The team is very diligent and keeps the deal moving forward while making sure details are not missed.’

‘Engaged, informed, efficient, responsible advice.’

‘Jessie Gaston – eminently qualified, disciplined, client-oriented, spirited and insightful.’

‘An extremely professional and competent team, which proposes clear, efficient and innovative solutions’.

‘The tax team and in particular Anne-Sophie Kerfant excels in the fields of venture capital and fundraising, in line with the firm’s thriving corporate practice in that area.’

 ‘The team has a very strong knowledge of the local tax regulations and a very good understanding of the IT sector as well.’

‘Anne-Sophie Kerfant has the ability to understand very quickly customers’ needs and she makes her best effort to meet very tight deadlines. We work very closely with her and we strongly recommend her. She is very professional.’

‘Beyond his very specialized knowledge of tax matters, Guillaume Jolly is very pragmatic, innovative and adapts to the constraints of our group. He is also very responsive. He always has the will to bring an operation to a successful conclusion, whatever the constraints.’

‘Experienced and practice-oriented team with good knowledge of current and intended tax trends especially for management-led PE transactions.’

‘Ability to find an excellent compromise between challenges and solutions; a competent team available and efficient; great quality of proposals/negotiating positions that are innovative, strategically relevant and truly expand the options available.’

 ‘Great availability and clear and justified answers.’

‘The responsiveness as well as the skills of the teams is greatly appreciated.’

‘It is a real pleasure to work with Guillaume Joly.’

‘The tax and corporate teams work very close; correct advice.’

‘Gabriel di Chiara and François-Xavier Simeoni are always available to discuss any tax matter, and provide valuable advice.’

‘They are very well known on the market.’

‘Preparation. Speed. Availability.’

‘Strong team across the board, especially in tax.’

‘Gabriel di Chiara is fantastic : responsive, technically accurate and delivered clear advice.’

‘Sandra Fernandes: availability, business oriented, very good knowledge and understanding of stakes. Always looks for solution.’

‘Strong competence of the tax department. Great ability to explain the ins and outs.’

‘Strong expertise.’

‘Seriousness, professionalism and responsiveness.’

‘A relationship of trust.’

‘Constant delivery of high performance work throughout the whole process even in complex and intense matters’.

‘High level of services’.

‘High commitment, dedication, profound knowledge and experienced team members’.

‘High technical skills, ability to find concrete solutions and manage very complex files, sense of customer service.’

‘Very diligent, collaborative and responsive team.’

‘Technical and reliable advice, agility and responsiveness.’

‘The team is very competent.’

‘The tax law team demonstrates a great deal of professionalism and pragmatism. The team also demonstrates great technicality and is extremely available.’

‘Christel Alberti is always available, shows great rigor and responsiveness in sometimes very urgent requests and her advice is always supported by flawless technical knowledge.’

‘Christel Alberti and Maxence Dubois form a duo of formidable competence in all areas of taxation. Christel Alberti has exceptional drafting skills.’

‘Christel Alberti, beyond her broad and undeniable technical skills, has exceptional writing skills. She is also extremely reassuring. She has an excellent ability to extract from pressures that may exist’.

‘Best value for money.’

‘Availability, clarity and great quality of advice’

‘Yann Grolleaud is excellent, especially in litigation.’

‘Outstanding technical skills. High quality work and responsiveness.’

‘Proximity and responsiveness.’

‘In-depth knowledge of tax incentive mechanisms related to technology in France and more generally of intellectual property.’

‘Attention to customers, very sharp technical knowledge.’

‘Professionalism. Sympathy. Reactivity. Quality of advice. Pro-activity.’

‘We had the opportunity to work with Emmanuel Galifer on a dispute with the tax authorities regarding property taxation. Beyond his in-depth knowledge of tax law, Galifer was able to put in place an effective strategy that made it possible to advance the file in the context of various negotiations with the administration.’

‘Very professional and very responsive team’.

‘Availability. Responsiveness. Very pleasant. Optimized fees. Conclusion: the perfect combination’.

‘Emmanuel Galifer knows how to transmit his analyzes with great clarity.’

‘Emmanuel Galifer is a very accessible lawyer, relevant, serious and always available in case of urgent question. Strong sense of service. Reassures the customer by finding appropriate solutions.’

‘A real team spirit and cohesion. It is reassuring to know that the information flows in a coherent way from us to the firm and vice versa.’

‘Emmanuel Galifer is always available, knows how to assess risks and put them into context.’

‘Jacques Mestoudjian is a tax expert with sharp skills, with a very strong customer oriented/friendly approach. He shows great availability and is a real source of proposals/solutions. He was able to surround himself with Rudy Marouani who promises to be a very good professional.’

‘I would specially mention Sophie Jouniaux for her professionalism and tax knowledge. She always tries to understand where our problem is and thinks of the best option for us in the most efficient way. I also appreciate her transparency and honesty. In sum, I can’t think of any better tax professional in France for a foreign group.’

‘Sophie Jouniaux is very capable, always available and very pragmatical.’

‘Great responsiveness and tailor-made capacity’.

‘Nicolas Message is brilliant.’

‘Responsive’.

‘They have an opinion and good foresight’.

‘Throughout the duration of the project, the teams showed great availability and genuine listening. Their great expertise in the sector, the legal framework and case law combined with the desire to be pragmatic makes it possible to find solutions.’

‘Stéphany Brevost and Thibaut Grange are real experts in their field who show great availability’.

‘Very responsive and professional team.’

‘Available, pleasant, very cordial and always present to help and give very good advice to the customer.’

‘Great professional and human qualities. A great sense of results and commitment. Great listening skills which allows them to identify the needs and specificities of the environments in which they operate.’

‘Great flexibility with respect to customer needs while providing high quality and innovative information on certain topics such as cryptocurrencies’

‘Great quality of its advice and personalized support in dealing with the tax issues. In addition, Eric Quentin has exceptional knowledge of tax regulations and remarkable experience in auditing and litigation. They allow us to make informed choices for complex and high-stakes issues.’

‘A very cutting-edge firm on complex domestic tax issues, particularly in terms of corporate tax and tax integration.’

‘I worked exclusively with partner Eric Quentin, whom I greatly appreciate for the quality, fluidity and spontaneity of the exchanges. Eric knew how to manage not only the technical aspects but also to have a strategic approach.’

‘They are very close to the client, responsive, available and know how to match their client’s knowledge while allowing them to benefit from their expertise.’

‘Laurent Partouche demonstrates an exceptional technicality that goes hand in hand with a lot of pragmatism and humility. Particularly in management package structuring, he is extremely sharp.’

‘Professionalism and rigor in tax law and cutting-edge technique. The team has a great sense of empathy and very fluid communication.’

‘Lawyers have this ability to distinguish real problems from false problems. The team has a target and is not letting go. Laurent Partouche is always available and puts his know-how at the service of his clients.’

‘Client first approach.’

‘Laurent Partouche is available, attentive, precise in his advice and balanced in his judgements.’

‘Entrepreneurial team.’

‘Laurent Partouche is available, humble and surgical in his recommendations.’

‘‘Laurent Ragot is precise in his recommendations and has international experience on cross-border deals’.

‘Laurent Ragot is a trustworthy person on whom one can rely on 100%. He is of rare reliability. He is a very good technician, who knows his files inside out. He is always attentive and very responsive.’

‘Great in-house expertise. Complementary team, with a very pleasant collective and present together at the various stages of the transaction. Great business intelligence depending on the type of deal, very deal oriented. Very good internal communication.’

‘Proximity. Friendly. Have the appropriate solutions to the issues raised by M&A / Management advice.’

‘Great availability of the team and direct and constant involvement of partners in the project’.

‘Very available and attentive team. Anticipation of problems and innovative solutions. Gender balance in the team. Electronic signature tools.’

‘Frédéric Bosc is a high quality lawyer.’

‘Frédéric Bosc is a commercially focused lawyer who understood and engaged with complex Irish tax issues arising on a transaction. Pleasure to work with.’

‘Excellent knowledge of tax law. Innovation. Excellent availability of partners.’

‘Frédéric Bosc has excellent expertise in tax law, is always available and does not hesitate to propose innovative solutions in the application of current case law.’

‘Great expertise in tax law. Files are processed with quality and within very responsive deadlines. The support is tailor-made with detailed documentation, clear explanations. The firm has the ability to propose and implement concrete and relevant operational solutions. Finally, the relationship is excellent and very professional.’

‘Vincent Garcia has good tax skills and knowledge of the banking sector, providing informed and responsive advice. He also has excellent interpersonal skills.’

‘The team is very attentive to the requests of its customers and has experience in the banking field. They go into the detail of matters and provide concrete implementation. The mode of collaboration is very close to the expectations of the customer.’

‘Vincent Garcia is very competent and very responsive and attentive to customer requests’.

‘Creativity; practical sense’.

‘Thierry Jestin: very great skill, very great creativity; great practical sense’

‘High quality team, both very competent and available’.

‘Great human qualities and legal expertise that allows them to fully understand situations.’

‘Very detailed approach to technical regulations. The firm has an excellent quality approach and experience.’

‘Maryse Naudin is one of the best tax practitioners that I have ever worked with.’

‘The firm has a detailed knowledge of French law residence. Succession is also an area of expertise. A lot of personal attention.’

‘Jean-Marc Tirard is extremely well known and has vast knowledge and experience. Maryse Naudin is also well known and very responsive. Both are leaders of their areas of practice in France’

‘An excellent team at the forefront of private client structuring in France. Highly responsive and reliable advice.’

‘Maryse Naudin is a real technical specialist, and an excellent tax lawyer.’

‘A team specially dedicated to the interests of the client, with outstanding knowledge, and more than exceptional experience in their field.’

‘Especially suited to wealthy people set-ups with a complex financial situation, whether in France or abroad.’

‘Great technique and efficiency. Always great advice’.

‘The team sees the full picture.’

‘Experts in their field.’

‘A spectacularly responsive, knowledgeable and impressive practice. We had a particularly complicated and extremely time sensitive transaction involving property and offshore entities. The team led by Marine Pelletier-Capes was professional and against all odds managed to provide more than one viable option to ensure the transaction completed within the very tight time frame.’

‘Marine Pelletier-Capes brings calm and order to what otherwise might have been a very chaotic transaction. The team stands out for their pragmatic approach, their in-depth knowledge of the world of French tax (especially as it relates to offshore trust structures) and their ability to achieve the impossible.’

‘Available, expertise, clear answers. Great internal communication with the firm’s corporate and restructuring department. Great anticipation’.

‘Very competent, both on advisory and on litigation. Large experience on which to rely on.’

‘Jerome Barré and Julia Novak are very competent, particularly in an international context.’

‘The private clients’ team has profound expertise in international cases. Their work is excellent and very efficient.’

‘Jérôme Barré: an outstanding and experienced tax lawyer for cross-border cases. Julia Novak: very knowledgeable tax lawyer with expertise in inheritance law’.