Strategic Advice for Executives, Corporate Officers & Directors
LWM Avocats supports executives, company officers and directors in their most critical strategic decisions. Our mission is to inform decisions that shape the company and its assets, drawing on our high-level legal and tax expertise.
Whether the objective is to anticipate the sale of a company, structure a buyout (LBO/MBO), optimize a family business transfer (pacte Dutreil), or develop a diversification strategy through the use of a holding company, our team offers comprehensive and pragmatic advice. Emerging issues related to international matters – creation of subsidiaries, transfer pricing – or company acquisitions are also among our key areas of practice.
Our methodology is based on a proven tool: the Project Structuring Memorandum. A powerful decision-making compass, it combines legal and tax analysis, risk assessment across multiple scenarios, and tailored financial modelling. The result: giving our clients the keys to making informed decisions at the right time.
LWM Avocats is recognized for its rigorous approach, the quality of its pedagogy and its close and sustained client relationships. We combine strategic advice and litigation support to offer a comprehensive and operational vision. Our guiding principles: transforming complexity into clarity and making each step an opportunity for value creation.
Areas of practice
- Anticipation and preparation of the sale of a business
- Structuring and implementation of LBOs/MBOs
- Acquisition and integration of companies
- International development: creation of subsidiaries, transfer pricing management
- Diversification and consolidation through holding companies
- Transfer of family businesses (pacte Dutreil and other mechanisms)
- Organization and protection of professional and private assets
- Structuring of investments through holding companies and appropriate vehicles
- Anticipating tax and legal implications for succession planning
- Drafting of Project Structuring Memoranda
- Legal and tax analysis across strategic scenarios
- Customized financial modelling and numerical simulations (Excel)
- Risk assessment and mapping
- Advice on choosing between alternative scenarios
- Assistance in disputes related to acquisitions and disposals
- Tax litigation related to structuring operations
- Representation of executives, company officers and directors before tax or judicial authorities
- Negotiation and amicable dispute settlement strategies
- Executives of family businesses
- Company officers and directors of SMEs and intermediate-sized enterprises
- Entrepreneurs in the process of selling or transferring their business
- Groups pursuing international development
- Institutional or private investors (via holding companies)
