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Pierre-Jean Douvier
CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats
2 rue Ancelle
92522 Neuilly-sur-Seine
France
Tel: (33) 1 47 38 56 76
Email: pierre-jean.douvier@cms-fl.com
Website: www.cms.law
Richard Foissac
CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats
2 rue Ancelle
92522 Paris
France
Tel: (33) 1 47 38 40 25
Email: richard.foissac@cms-fl.com
Website: www.cms.law
Pierre-Jean joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1986. He formerly
has been with Coopers & Lybrand (1981-1984) and Ernst & Whinney
(1984-1986). He specialises in transfer pricing and private clients,
having 30 years’ experience in those areas, with the invaluable support
our firm’ team of 10-plus economists. His other practice areas are
cross-border transactions, including M&A, financing, refinancing,
restructuring, financial leasing, and European and international
taxation.
His second area of expertise is private clients: legal and tax regimes,
including family law (international aspects), immigration law, assets
protection, wealth transfer techniques, inheritance, assets protection
and separation of assets, matrimonial status, real property
investments, trusts impacts within civil jurisdictions, tax audit
protection and litigation.
Pierre-Jean is a member of the Institute for Tax Advisers (IACF), the
International Fiscal Association (IFA) and the International Bar
Association (IBA). He is also the honorary vice president of the trusts
committee of the IBA.
He is a lecturer on international taxation at the University of Paris II –
Assas and also a speaker at conferences on topics such as transfer of
domicile, trusts and assets reorganisation. He is the author of several
publications edited by the IBFD, including 20 files of international
cases published by Litec, The Regime of Partnerships and The Regime
of Permanent Establishments, as well as others (published, for
example, by Editions Francis Lefebvre and Pedone) in English and
French (e.g. Monaco Tax and Legal Guide and Transfer Pricing). He
regularly contributes to reference books on International Transfer
Pricing. He is a correspondent for the International Transfer Pricing
Journal.
Richard joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1988. He chaired the
firm’s advisory board from 2009 to 2012. He is an expert in French
taxation and mainly manages cases in related to corporation tax, real
estate and finance taxation (for French and international listed and
non-listed companies); personal income tax; tax systems for semipublic
companies and local authorities.
Richard is also specialised in tax litigation and in tax penal claims. In
this context, he and his team have spent many years assisting several
groups, companies and their key individuals, in tax dawn raid
procedures (section L 16B of the French tax code) and in tax criminal
procedures; as a tax litigation lawyer, he also regularly pleads
(including in criminal tax). Richard has a long-standing working
relationship with French tax administration as an expert of those
matters.
Richard regularly publishes articles in specialised publications. He is a
lecturer at the Universities of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), Sophia-
Antipolis and Montpellier. He is also a member of the Tax Lawyers
Institute (IACF) and of the French Association for Corporate Legal
Advisers (ACE).
Richard holds a postgraduate degree in business law from the
University of Montpellier (DJCE). A French native speaker, he is fluent
in English.
Pierre-Jean is domiciled and based in Monaco where he has a licence
of counsel in international taxation.
He holds a master’s degree in business law from the University of Paris
II Assas (1981) and is a graduate from the ESLSCA Business School
(1979). A French native speaker, He speaks English and German
fluently, as well as Italian.
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