High Net Worth Guide 2025 : France
Ranked Individuals
Provided by Yards
YARDS’ Private Clients & Family Businesses team advises individuals, families and entrepreneurs on the full spectrum of legal and tax matters in France and across borders.
The practice handles income tax, exit tax and wealth tax (IFI) compliance, trust reporting, and asset-holding company obligations, as well as succession planning, family business transmission (including under the Dutreil regime), governance agreements, and family pacts.
The team supports company sales and restructurings (LBOs, OBOs, donation-sales, reinvestments under Article 150-0 B ter), relocation and international taxation, and the design of executives’ remuneration and incentive schemes. It also advises on real estate, private equity, start-ups, vineyards, crypto-assets, art and philanthropy.
Clients include high-net-worth individuals, family businesses, non-residents investing in France, and executives with complex compensation packages, often involving cross-border elements. YARDS regularly collaborates with family offices, private banks, accountants and foreign counsel.
Recent highlights include recognition in Le Figaro’s 2025 ranking of leading tax law firms and in Legal 500 EMEA 2025 for M&A/Private Equity, as well as hosting conferences on directors’ taxation.
The team’s specialisations lie in complex French tax regimes, international mobility, trusts and foundations, family governance, and alternative assets, with a distinctive ability to integrate legal, tax and transactional expertise.
Provided by Chambers
Yards offers advice to high net worth clients on all matters related to tax, inheritance, trusts, private foundations, investments, philanthropy and the sale of businesses. Its clients include entrepreneurs, families, business owners and company executives.
Provided by Chambers
It is a very efficient and proactive firm. They are brilliant lawyers with very pragmatic views.
They have a very strong tax department I can highly recommend because of their competence on international files.
Yards are very knowledgeable in the field of taxes concerning high net worth individuals.
Provided by Chambers
Jérôme has high net worth clients in France, a great network and can work on a cross-border basis. He knows all the international concepts that you need to know for these private clients.
Jérôme Barré is a very good tax practitioner with a great commercial vision.
Jérôme is a specialist in his field and great to work with.
Julia Novak is a very good tax lawyer with broad knowledge on cross-border issues.
Julia Novak is technically prepared, precise and responsive - I like working with her very much.
Julia Novak is very proactive and to-the-point.
Head of Private Wealth Law
Private Wealth Law
Provided by Yards
Laurent Gabaud
Nicolas Bourgeois
Raphaël François
Aurore Meslin
Julia Novak
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