LIGL Avocats has been practising all tax concepts for many years. Its skills are used by real estate operators, financial groups, real estate companies, investment funds and their management teams.
The firm advises on the tax aspects of acquisitions and disposals, as well as on tax audits and litigation for individuals and legal entities in all aspects of their tax affairs (tax returns, tax audits, etc.) and their assets (transfers, mergers and acquisitions), all with a view to optimizing asset transfers.
The firm also advises company directors on the organization and management of their private and professional assets, within the framework of asset analysis, investment and advisory support for the management of their movable and immovable assets, the management of directors’ taxation, the transfer of companies and the tax and asset management of their transfer.
Our tax lawyers are also involved, with the support of the firm’s other teams, in structuring mergers, disposals, private equity and wealth management transactions.
Our strengths in the area of taxation :
Fiscalité immobilière, notamment la gestion fiscale des opérations immobilières,
The partners involved in this field are Marie Jackson and Laurent Lancrey-Javal.
LIGL Avocats is involved in all types of acquisition and restructuring operations in various sectors, particularly in real estate. This involves assistance in their equity transactions as well as in the day-to-day corporate life of companies.
The firm is involved in all stages of a sale or acquisition operation, from the preliminary audit phase (legal, social and tax), during the negotiation and drafting of agreements (price, terms of sale) and, where appropriate, in accordance with the tax and asset strategy previously defined with the client.
In the context of these transactions, the firm advises its clients on the legal feasibility or advisability of carrying out certain transactions, on the most suitable legal vehicle and subsequently ensures the follow-up of current legal transactions. LIGL Avocats is committed to supporting its clients over the long term, becoming their regular contact.
The legal follow-up of companies involves the mastery of permanent and periodic legal obligations (board of directors, strategic committee or shareholders’ meetings) or of corporate restructuring operations and generally of the relationship of companies within a group or of the relationship with key employees (allocation of BSPCE, management fees, cash flow agreement, current account agreements).
The firm regularly assists entrepreneurs in the creation of their company, then in their development phase, but also, if necessary, in more difficult periods, particularly in the event of collective proceedings.
LIGL Avocats regularly assists its clients from the pre-contractual phase to the signing of the contract. The firm’s partners have experience in the preparation, negotiation and drafting of contracts in a wide range of sectors, including contracts for the sale of equipment, the provision of services, bond issues, surety bonds and guarantees, and compound securities or shareholders’ agreements.
The firm’s lawyers assist managers and their legal departments to provide their expertise in contractual matters, generally with a precise knowledge of the business sector.
The mastery of the entire contractual process, with an intervention upstream of the file, allows us to establish a reliable relationship with the service provider. LIGL Avocat’s mission is to ensure that the rights, obligations or guarantees set out in the contract are properly managed.
The expertise in contractual drafting and the experience in litigation enable the firm’s lawyers to assist clients in the context of commercial disputes that may arise from the non-performance of these contracts.
Strengths in the area of commercial contracts:
LIGL Avocats has been following developments in the real estate sector for many years and regularly assists institutional investors, real estate developers and construction companies, lessors and operators, in all classes of real estate assets, whether industrial, tertiary, residential or agricultural.
The firm advises and litigates on all legal aspects of its clients’ real estate transactions, from design to construction, marketing and management.
The firm’s ability to respond quickly and creatively to the expectations of real estate players and their projects has led many of them to rely on it for the contractual structuring of real estate transactions (leases in the future state of completion, sales in the future state of completion, real estate development contracts, acquisition of real estate assets through the takeover of company shares, partnership agreements, etc.), the drafting and negotiation of commercial, professional and residential leases, and development operations.
LIGL Avocats has expertise in drafting legal documents, buyer/seller audits for all types of real estate (hotels, commercial premises, offices, logistics buildings, residential buildings, etc.) or in drafting legal advice on real estate (indexation clauses, delivery obligation, urban and commercial pre-emption rights, etc.).
In addition to this advisory activity, the firm is involved in the management of disputes to assist its clients in the defence of their interests, through legal proceedings or mediation. This practice includes litigation relating to commercial leases, sales, construction or more complex transactions.
The firm’s partners are also involved in training legal and operational teams at clients’ premises or at business schools and universities, particularly in the area of real estate taxation.
Strengths in real estate law :
The partners involved in this field are Thomas Beal, Laurent Lancrey-Javal and Marie Jackson.
LIGL Avocats assists its clients, institutional investors, investment funds and industrialists in their external growth operations or the sale of branches of activity, mainly in France.
The firm is able to provide its clients with specific expertise to cover all aspects of its clients’ transactions, whether it be legal and tax structuring, the terms and conditions of the acquisition and disposal of companies and assets, such as goodwill or real estate, the setting up of joint ventures and shareholders’ agreements, equity transactions and restructurings (mergers, spin-offs, contributions).
LIGL Avocats advises entrepreneurs, company directors, financial directors and legal directors for all types of companies, whether industrial, listed, family-owned or start-ups, in their acquisition, sale or restructuring operations. In addition to this advisory activity, the firm also offers expertise in litigation in conflicts between managers and/or partners or relating to guarantees of assets and liabilities or partners’ agreements.
The firm is involved in a wide range of business sectors, including real estate, industry, leasing, the internet and insurance.
The firm has a team of lawyers dedicated to business litigation, which mainly intervenes before the civil and commercial courts in matters of contract performance (payment disputes, performance or termination of contracts). LIGL Avocats seeks as often as possible to implement a cross-disciplinary and multi-criteria approach in its search for solutions for French and foreign companies.
Before resorting to litigation, LIGL Avocats favours as much as possible the search for alternative methods of dispute resolution through mediation or negotiation, which makes it possible to control the risk of litigation and the search for amicable solutions.
In judicial matters, the firm assists its clients before the civil and commercial courts in all types of proceedings, whether in summary proceedings, on the merits, for precautionary measures, enforcement measures, at first instance or on appeal.
The litigation team provides direct support to legal departments and decision-makers in all their disputes, with many years of experience in resolving national and international disputes. The objective is always to offer a solution adapted to each case, depending on the jurisdiction concerned, in a permanent search for efficiency.
LIGL Avocats has developed a solid expertise in the management of litigation procedures for the termination of established commercial relations.
Strengths in litigation :
The firm’s partner involved in litigation is Thomas Beal.
LIGL Avocats advises a wide range of players in the field of private equity, including entrepreneurs, investors and investment funds, in order to ensure the implementation of fund-raising operations.
The Firm works with investors and managers from the outset, from the creation stage, and then in the analysis and structuring phases for the preparation of transactions (letters of intent, investment protocols, shareholders’ agreements, guarantee agreements, issues of composite securities), fund-raising and development capital transactions (minority and majority investment), leveraged transactions and mezzanine financing.
The firm assists start-ups in the start-up phase, then in the development of these companies, to ensure the strategy and the setting up of evolving financing (Articles of Association, shareholders’ agreement, contracts or taxation), and the implementation of capital incentive tools for employees.
Strengths in Private Equity :
