Arkwood

Managing Partners: Stéphanie Auféril, Julien Riahi

Number of partners: 7

Number of lawyers: 17 lawyers

Languages: English, French 

Firm Overview:  

Arkwood advises private clients connected to France, such as French or foreign families, family offices, entrepreneurs, as well as major financial institutions, like life-insurance companies, banks, and trustees, on French taxation and complex multi-jurisdictional tax structuring.

Arkwood is best known for its:

■ Experience in working across multiple foreign tax and legal systems, coordinating clients’ advisers from various jurisdictions

■ Expertise in trusts, which makes it a prominent and thought leading practice in France

■ Capacity to advise on personal wealth management and corporate tax, which regularly involves complex corporate reorganisations

■ Track record in inbound and outbound relocations of UHNW individuals, including estate planning that involve private and professional assets

■ Expertise in navigating through the intricacies of civil and tax law as wealth management tools to meet the complex needs of wealth-owning families

■ Dispute resolution practice, including dispute resolution between family members and shareholders, administrative proceedings, representation of clients before the French courts, and responses to foreign courts orders

Practice Areas: 

Entrepreneurs & Family Groups

Trusts

Transfer of Residence

French-US Strategies

Real Estate: Investment & Wealth

Middle East

International Successions

France-UK Strategies

Life Insurance

Estate Planning

Artists & Sportsman

Compliance & Declaration

Israel

Belgium

Tax Audit & Litigation

Compensation Package

International