Tax Optimisation

Tax optimisation counsel, structuring and succession.

Whitepeak Law assists executives and investors in the tax structuring of their assets: patrimonial holding companies, share disposals, contribution-disposal, and business succession.

Practices

Areas
of practice.

Patrimonial holding company and share contributions

Structuring of a patrimonial holding company to optimise the ownership of operating company shares: contribution-disposal, tax deferral, parent-subsidiary regime, and optimisation of dividend flows.

Share disposals and capital gains

Tax structuring of share disposals: holding period allowances, gift before disposal, contribution-disposal, and analysis of capital gains taxation mechanisms.

Business succession

Tax optimisation of business succession: Dutreil pact for gratuitous transfers, gift-disposal, bare ownership, and organisation of professional asset succession.

Tax-advantaged investment vehicles

Advice on investment schemes benefiting from tax advantages: FCPI, FIP, overseas investment, and structuring of investments in SMEs eligible for income tax reductions.

Clients

The clients we advise.

Executives exiting a company

Advice on the tax structuring of their share disposal: contribution-disposal, tax deferral, gift before disposal, and organisation of capital gains.

Entrepreneurial wealth holders

Structuring of professional and personal assets to optimise cash flows, income, and succession planning under the best possible tax conditions.

Families and family groups

Organisation of intergenerational business succession: Dutreil pact, gift with reserved usufruct, patrimonial civil company.

Active investors

Structuring of investment portfolios to optimise the taxation of income and capital gains in compliance with applicable rules and anti-avoidance doctrine.

Approach

A practice driven by decisions.

Optimisation within the legal framework

Tax optimisation must be grounded in law and withstand scrutiny from the tax authorities. Whitepeak Law favours robust, well-documented structures compliant with recent abuse of law case law.

Senior attention on every matter

Every matter is handled by the founding partner. First point of contact, last reviewer. No delegation of judgment on tax issues that engage the clients' personal position.

Long-term perspective

Tax optimisation must not sacrifice future flexibility. Whitepeak Law designs adaptive structures that allow the tax strategy to evolve with the clients' changing circumstances.

Paris Bar·UCLA School of Law·MIT Sloan School of Management·White & Case·Allen & Overy·Former Partner, Beaubourg Avocats

Your tax optimisation strategy.

Confidential initial consultation to analyse your situation, identify the available tax optimisation levers, and define the best approach within the legal framework.

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