About

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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.

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Private Wealth Law - France

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What the Team is Known For

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.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Jérôme Barré
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Jérôme Barré
Head of Private Wealth Law
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Jérôme Barré has an excellent reputation for handling private client and family-owned company matters in both a domestic and international context.

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
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Julia Novak
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Julia Novak is adept at advising private clients on cross-border and domestic estate and tax planning issues, and also has expertise in real estate investments, residency and civil law issues.

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.

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France

Private Wealth Law

Jérôme Barré
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Jérôme Barré
Head of Private Wealth Law
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Band 1
Julia Novak
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Julia Novak
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Band 2

Members

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Aurore Meslin

Jérôme Barré

Jérôme Barré

Head of Department

Laurent Gabaud

Nicolas Bourgeois

Raphaël François