Vincent Lazimi

Practice Areas

Private clients

Taxation of private equity transactions

Tax structuring of investment funds

Tax management of international companies

Taxation of mergers and acquisitions

Innovation taxation: start-up & growth companies

Tax audits

Career

Vincent Lazimi specializes in tax law. For 20 years, including 6 years in London, he has been advising companies and individuals, often in an international context, and assisting them in the event of tax audits.

Vincent assists a significant number of international private clients, family offices, entrepreneurs, and investors with regards to wealth and estate planning and has a strong focus on French/UK and French/US cross-border tax issues. He advises investors and bankers moving to France (inpatriate tax scheme, pre immigration tax planning, etc.) or HNWI leaving France for Italy, Switzerland, the UK or Israel (exit tax, reorganization of groups, etc.).

Vincent also assists many UK and US private equity firms with their internal organization and fund structuring (setting up in France, remuneration policy for partners, taxation of carried interest and co investment income, etc.) and also, in order to structure their acquisitions (LBO, OBO, MBO, etc.).

Besides, Vincent advises companies, mainly in the new technologies sector, regarding their day-to-day operations (management fee agreements, tax consolidation, VAT, etc.) and exceptional operations (taxation of reorganizations, acquisitions, transfer of losses, etc.).

Finally, he has also developed a strong expertise in tax audit assistance for both companies and individuals.

Vincent is both qualified as Avocat and a Solicitor of England and Wales. He is the author of a reference book on international taxation of individuals and holds a PhD in international tax law.

Professional Memberships

Institut des Avocats Conseils Fiscaux (IACF)

Awards