Tax lawyers · Wealth counsel
2016
Ten years in the service of wealth
The art of advising exceptional estates.
Recognition
Distinguished by its peers and the specialist press.
Décideurs · Leaders League
Strong reputationWealth management
Leaders League · 2025
Strong reputationReal-estate taxation
Best Lawyers
2026 editionTax Law
Leaders League
Strong reputationTax & Wealth
“ An exceptional estate is not managed like an ordinary one. It is composed, the way one composes a work of art, with patience and an eye for detail. ”
Jonathan Bensaid · Founding partner
Representative matters
You may recognise
your own situation.
Every estate is singular. Here are a few of the matters the firm handles, to help you picture yours.
Art & the art market
Selling an artwork or an exceptional collection
Structuring the sale on the major international marketplaces, fiducie, dation in payment, capital-gains taxation.
The sale of an art collection on the New York market
Real estate
Acquiring a prestige asset, in France or abroad
France–Luxembourg structures, security fiducie, financings structured across several jurisdictions.
A Haussmann-era building · a residential tower abroad
Banking & Finance
Securing a complex financing
Security fiducie, portage transactions, structured refinancings with Swiss and Luxembourg institutions.
A catalogue of rights pre-financed through a double fiducie
International taxation
Preparing an expatriation or a return to France
Tax residence, exit tax, treaties, international mutual assistance, non-residents.
France · Switzerland · Italy · Spain · UAE · Israel
Wealth & transfer
Transferring an estate or a family business
Dutreil pact, gifts, dismemberment of ownership, trusts and fiducie, planned across two generations.
Strategies designed for the long term
Litigation & audits
Facing a tax audit or reassessment
Defence before the authorities and the tax courts, international mutual assistance, advance rulings.
Before the authorities and the tax courts
The firm’s partners
Four partners,
four practices.
The firm is organised around four areas of expertise, each led by a partner. Together they coordinate an extended team of tax lawyers, associates and of counsel across our five European offices.
i
Jonathan Bensaid
Founding partner
Wealth, real-estate and art taxation
ii
François Ouairy
Partner
Corporate tax, VAT, international transactions
iii
Vanessa Bensaid
Partner
Real-estate litigation, commercial leases, successions
iv
Lauren Bensaid
Partner
Trusts, international successions, fiducie
Some twenty professionals (lawyers, tax specialists
and of counsel) mobilised on the most sensitive
matters, in France and internationally.
Does your situation call for a precise view? Set it out to the firm, in full confidence.
Set out your situationPress & media
Sought out by the leading press.
Les Échos
“ Tackling public spending, urgently ”
Op-ed · François Ouairy
Le Figaro
Retiring abroad: where French taxpayers pay the least
Interview · François Ouairy
L'Opinion
Business transfers: easing the handover
Op-ed · François Ouairy
TF1 Info
“ Can AI help reduce your taxes? ”
Interview · Jonathan Bensaid
Le Figaro Immo
Disguised gifts: analysis and tax risks
Op-ed · Jonathan Bensaid
Décideurs
“ Over-strict regulation can suffocate a market ”
Interview · the art market
Our locations
Five houses,
one standard.
Paris
48° 52′ N · 2° 18′ E
Geneva
46° 12′ N · 6° 08′ E
Swiss office
Route des Jeunes 9
1227 Les Acacias, Switzerland
1227 Les Acacias, Switzerland
Marseille
Cannes
Lisbon
An initial exchange
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or write to us, reply within 24 hours · contact@bensaid-avocats.fr