Law firm

Marseille

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The firm is at your disposal throughout our mission of assisting and meeting your expectations as best as possible by providing you with technical, adapted and personalized advice.

The firm

The AC juridique et fiscal firm is located in the heart of the Phocaean city.

Audrey CANUEL-CHAPELLE, lawyer at the Marseille Bar, founder of the firm with an ongoing specialized pratice of tax law since 2001.
She began her career in Paris at Magellan (Mazars Group) and continued her career in Marseille at PWC and KPMG. She holds a specialization in tax and customs law.

Her experience in serving large international groups, SMEs, business leaders and family groups, enables her to effectively support and advise her clients on all tax issues.

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Expertise

The Firm operates in the legal and tax fields.

 

It is mainly involved in the following areas:

Wealth taxation

Corporate taxation / non-profit structures or organizations

International taxation

CORPORATE RESTRUCTURING AND ASSET TRANSFER RESTRUCTURING

Corporate law

TAX LITIGATION

Wealth taxation

The firm advises you on your patrimonial tax situation with regard to the taxation of your income or the taxation of your assets, the transmission of your assets and/or of your company and assists you in all your tax obligations.
The firm advises you in your real estate acquisitions and in the structuring of your real estate assets as well as in the context of the strategy of the transfer of assets, including situations with international issues.

Corporate taxation / non-profit structures or organizations

The firm assists you in the analysis of the situation of the structure with regard to the usual taxes: corporate or profit tax, VAT, local taxes but also with regard to the specific taxes to which it is subject. The firm can also assist you on a specific tax point, or in the structuring or restructuring of your activity(ies).

International taxation

Whether you live abroad, or you have property located abroad or you work abroad or your company is establishe abroad, or plans to internationally expand its activity. Whatever your situation:

The firm will advise you on issues of tax residence, place of taxation or on your reporting obligations.
It also advises you on the establishment, management and restructuring of your activities in an international context and in general, on all international tax matters.

Corporate restructuring and asset transfer restructuring

Restructuring:

The firm assists you in choosing the legal and tax scheme best suited to your needs and assists you in the implementation of your restructuring operation, from a legal and fiscal point of view in the context of the filing of applications for approval and rulings.

Transmissions:

The firm advises you in the structuring or restructuring of your assets to rebalance them or anticipate a possible transfer (sale or inheritance) and ensures coordination with the other parties involved (notary, chartered accountant, valuation expert, etc.)

Tax litigation

The firm assists you in your exchanges with the French Tax Administration, whether it concerns tax audit and the adversarial phase (tax reassessment notice, etc.) or the pre-litigation phase (claims).

The firm also represents you before administrative or judicial courts.

Honorarium

The fees received by the lawyer are governed by law and decrees.

“- as soon as the matter is referred to them, the lawyer shall inform the client, , of the procedures for determining the fees and shall regularly inform the client of the evolution of their amount. The lawyer shall also inform the client of all costs, disbursements and emoluments that the lawyer may incur”.

“- Except in cases of urgency or force majeure or when the lawyer intervenes under the full legal aid or the third part of Law No. 91-647 of 10 July 1991 on legal aid, the lawyer concludes in writing a fee agreement with the client, which particularly specifies, the amount or the method of determining the fees giving rise to the foreseeable diligence, as well as the various costs and disbursements planed”.

“- The fees are set according to custom, according to the client’s financial situation, the difficulty of the case, the costs incurred by the lawyer, the reputation and the diligence of the lawyer. The lawyer in charge of a case may ask the client for fees even if the case is withdrawn from them before its conclusion to the extent of the work done. The lawyer’s remuneration is based on each of the following elements in accordance with practice:

  • the time spent on the case;
  • research work;
  • the nature and difficulty of the case;
  • the importance of the interests involved;
  • the impact of the costs and charges of the firm to which he belongs;
  • their reputation, titles, seniority, experience and specialisation;
  • the benefits and results obtained for the benefit of the client by his work, as well as the service provided
  • the financial situation of the latter”.

“A lawyer who accepts the charge of a case may ask the client for the prior payment of a provisional payment to be applied to the costs and fees. This provision may not go beyond a reasonable estimate of the fees and preliminary disbursements incurred by the case. In the absence of payment of the requested provision, the lawyer may renounce to deal with the case or withdraw from it under the conditions provided for in Article 13 of Decree No. 2005-790 of 12 July 2005”.

Our fees are established in strict compliance with the texts.

The firm’s intervention is always carried out on the basis of an agreement allowing you to know the detailed scope of the work and the precise amount of the fees. This will be sent to you at the end of the first appointment. Depending on the nature of the case, it is possible that a fixed fee may be offered to you combined with a success fee based on the savings you will make as a result of the firm’s intervention. This success fee is of course specified in the fee agreement established prior to any intervention.

We are committed to respecting the deadlines that we set together in advance.

Contact

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Telephone 09 72 16 56 70 | Email