Pierre-Olivier Bernard

Pierre-Olivier Bernard

Partner  |  Opleo Avocats
JURISDICTION

TOP SPECIALISMS

Tax Advisory

Office Location

France

Short Biography

Pierre-Olivier Bernard is the founding and managing partner of Opleo Avocats. With a background in tax and personal wealth management, Pierre-Olivier provides a unique and comprehensive set of advisory services for managers and teams involved in private equity transactions, particularly LBOs. He regularly works alongside business executives, entrepreneurs, family-owned groups and private investors, and assists them with the strategic decision-making necessary to get the fullest value from their professional and personal interests.

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May Lolli-Ghetti

May Lolli-Ghetti

Partner  |  Interlaw Monaco SAM
JURISDICTION

TOP SPECIALISMS

Estates: Planning

Real Estate

Tax Advisory

Office Location

Monaco

Short Biography

I am a partner at Interlaw Monaco SAM, an independent international boutique law firm based in the Principality of Monaco. My clients are HNWI and international families, family offices and businesses. I advise them on a variety of international private law aspects, including asset structuring, wealth preservation, tax and succession planning typically in a cross-border context. I am member of the Paris and New York Bars and a full STEP member.

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What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

What was your first job?

Associate at Pavia & Harcourt LLP (NYC)

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Line-Alexa Glotin

Line-Alexa Glotin

Partner, TEP  |  UGGC Avocats
JURISDICTION

TOP SPECIALISMS

Estates: Planning

Trusts: Planning

Tax Advisory

Office Location

France

Short Biography

Line-Alexa Glotin advises private clients and institutions in a domestic and international context. She has extensive experience in assisting individuals, family businesses, family offices, charities, trustees and foundations, notably in regard to the transfer and restructuring of private assets and estate planning. Line-Alexa advises managers and their families, foreign investors, artists and sportspersons in their private and professional projects. In this context, Line-Alexa developed a particular expertise in private internal law, tax and litigation.

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

Marius et Jeannette

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

What was your first job?

Lawyer

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

À la recherche du temps perdu, Marcel Proust

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

the growing use of artificial intelligence


Jérôme Barré

Jérôme Barré

Laywer  |  Cabinet Yards
JURISDICTION

France, United States

TOP SPECIALISMS

Family Governance and Business

Trusts: Planning

Tax Advisory

Office Location

France

Short Biography

Jérôme started his activity as attorney in a very famous office of frenche movies stars, sportmen and rich families. He was called after to become the tax manager of AXA Insurance Group, where he was very actif in the operation of restructuration of the Group. Then he was called to become the tax manager of Credit Mutuel Bank. Finally, he was called to become the tax and legal manager for Rothschild dans Co. After working at PWC, being partner at Arthur Andersen and at Franklin, he created Yards Law Firm. He teaches in different universities.He has a chair of Step France, is member of ISTEL and director of AFFO.

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

Le Clarence, 31 avenue Franklin Roosevelt, 75008 Paris

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

Be yourself, with enthusiasm

What was your first job?

When I was 8, I harvest the leaner of tobacco in the fields. After I became attorney at laws.

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

WaterMusic TC Boyle

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

I will replace usual task, advice will be the reasons of or job bared on experience, wisdom and itntelligence.


Jonathan Conder

Jonathan Conder

Partner - Private Wealth  |  Stephenson Harwood
JURISDICTION

TOP SPECIALISMS

Family Office

Trusts: Planning

Tax Advisory

Office Location

London, United Kingdom

Short Biography

Jonathan is a partner in Stephenson Harwood’s private wealth group and advises UK and international private clients, trustees, foundations, family offices and private banks on all aspects of tax, trust, estate and succession planning, regulatory, immigration and philanthropic issues. He also has significant experience in assisting families and trustees in responding to tax investigations and resolving disputes.

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

The Ned

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

"You make your own luck"

What was your first job?

Newspaper round, aged 13

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

"The Firm"

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

More use of AI


Francois Mollat du Jourdin

Francois Mollat du Jourdin

FOUNDING AND MANAGING P ARTNER  |  MJ&CIE
JURISDICTION

France, Switzerland

TOP SPECIALISMS

Charitable Planning and Philanthropy

Family Governance and Business

Family Office

Office Location

France

Short Biography

A pioneer of independant multi-client family office, Francois is a former private banker. After founding MJ&CIE in 2001 he has been a leading member of French and Eiropean association of Family Offifes. He is now developing the international federation of Family Office. Recognised for his professionalism and ethics, MJ&CIE services European and International clients out of its Paris and Geneva offices.

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

APICIUS

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

KEEP IT SIMPLE

What was your first job?

SALESMAN IN CANADA FOR THE DAIRY INDUSTRY

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

L'ETRANGER FROM ALBERT CAMUS

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

WE ARE ACTIVELY DEVELOPPING NEW AREAS OF EXPERTISE IN THE CORPORATE ADVISORY TO COMPLETE OUR SCOPE OF SERVICE TO ENTREPRENEURS AND ENTREPRENEURIAL FAMILIES. AT AN INTERNATIONAL SCALE. MEANWHILE, STRENGHTHENING REGULATION REMAINS A CHALLENGE.


Fabrice Varandas

Fabrice Varandas

Lawyer  |  Baker McKenzie
JURISDICTION

TOP SPECIALISMS

Asset Management

Corporate Law

Real Estate

Office Location

France

Short Biography

Fabrice Varandas joined Baker McKenzie in 2007. He has expertise in real estate law (including real estate acquisitions, leases and specific regulations), construction law, corporate law and financing. Fabrice regularly advises French and foreign investors our real estate corporate transactions buildings and real estate portfolios and advises users in the scope of their setting up in France. Fabrice intervenes for French or foreign investors in the setting-up of real estate investment funds (including French OPCIs), and joint-ventures. He also advises French and foreign investors or real estate structured financings. Fabrice holds a postgraduate degree of Business Law (2007) and another in civil and trade obligations law (2006) from the University of Paris V René Descartes.

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Aude Chartier

Aude Chartier

Partner – Attorney at law  |  Steering Legal
JURISDICTION

TOP SPECIALISMS

Estates: Planning

Family Governance and Business

Tax Advisory

Office Location

France

Short Biography

Aude is a partner at Steering Legal with over 10 years' experience advising private clients in domestic and international contexts. Prior to joining Steering Legal, Aude was a partner at Opleo Avocats. Her practice has been recognized in several rankings (Legal 500, Décideurs). Aude specializes in tax and wealth management issues, including inheritance and family law, business transfers and structuring, art and philanthropy. She plays a key role in advising family-owned business leaders and senior executives on private equity buyouts and exits. She also has extensive experience in assisting individuals with tax and wealth disputes.

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What was your first job?

Attorney

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

Integrating AI for the benefit of the lawyer and the client is a major challenge.


Alexandra Adrot-Castorina

Alexandra Adrot-Castorina

Partner  |  Adrot-Castorina Bonnet Avocats
JURISDICTION

TOP SPECIALISMS

Estates: Planning

Family Office

Tax Advisory

Office Location

France

Short Biography

I am a French qualified lawyer with a background shaped across France, the UK, and Italy. After years spent in the M&A teams of international law firms, I made the decision to focus on private clients over twelve years ago. Today, I have the privilege of assisting international families with all their tax and legal concerns, collaborating with their trusted advisors, or introducing reliable partners to help them decipher and navigate an increasingly complex world. My expertise spans ever-evolving areas, from international taxation and estate planning to the structuring and management of real estate investments. I also anticipate and address family disputes, delve into issues related to digital assets, and explore gender-related challenges. Curiosity, creativity, and collaboration with esteemed colleagues I both value and respect: that is my perfect recipe for professional happiness!

What is your favorite restaurant to take a client or colleague to?

La Latteria in Milano - but unfortunately it closed last month!

What is the best piece of advice you have ever received?

be nice to others and don't expect anything in return

What was your first job?

sadly: lawyer - the only job I have ever done. I would have loved to be a conductor - also I sometimes feel that I am a conductor indeed - coordinating my clients' trusted advisors.

What is the book you recommend to everyone?

"le lait de l'oranger" (milk of the orange blossom tree) written by the French lawyer and feminist activist Gisèle Halimi. A moving and powerful testimony from an exceptional woman who has left a lasting impact on our profession and generation.

What changes do you expect to see in your practice over the next year?

It certainly sounds quite banal but artificial intelligence , which will compel us to explore - and push back - the boundaries of our practice. Exciting!