Your English-speaking
French Corporate law firm
Melot & Buchet is a French boutique law firm located in Paris, offering a full range of services in business law, and more specifically in tax law, financing law and corporate law.
The experience acquired by Melot & Buchet’s lawyers in major international law firms, enables them to assist French clients extending their activities abroad, but also to support foreign clients in their development in France.
In addition, all the 10 lawyers in our firm have significant experience abroad, which provides a real opening to the international scene based on strong personal experiences.
Practices
Structuring of public offerings
Mergers and acquisitions, Venture capital
Negotiation and drafting of all commercial contracts
Transfers of business assets worldwide
International tax optimisation USA, UK…
Advisory and litigation about unfair competition
All litigations with the tax administration
Leveraged buy-outs LBO
Due diligence and Legal reviews
Individual income tax and wealth tax
Assistance of European and Asian investors
Fundraising assistance for all type of businesses
Corporate tax, value added tax VAT, wealth tax…
Management of international flows, dividends, royalties, interest
Business Law Firm
Melot & Buchet is an independent law firm dedicated to complex cases.
10 lawyers specialized in business law
+500 clients
Always tailor-made interventions. High level technical expertise.
In addition, being a part of the European JCA Lawyers International network, our firm can work on international transactions within a secure legal framework, while remaining a single point of contact for its clients.
15 years of existence
100 years of cumulative experience
300 m2 of offices in Paris and Rennes
50 articles published
Corporate Law
Our firm has a solid experience in the field of equity transactions.
We act in mergers and acquisitions, venture capital, leveraged buy-outs, mergers and restructurings as advisors to buyers, sellers or the management of target companies.
Our firm also, assists companies in their search for the necessary financing for their creation and their organic and/or external growth. We help compagnies in the preparation phase, during the negotiation and all other post-funding re-organisations.
Our experience:
Subsidialisation, contribution and merger
within a distribution group (30M€)
Fundraising for companies in the e-business,
renewable energy, aeronautics, real estate, drones, etc. sectors
Negotiation of the amicable exit
of an executive of a stock exchange company from several investment funds
Litigation for unfair competition
in several sectors of activity: e-business – Insurance brokerage – Oil drilling…
Tax Law
Our firm deals with all issues related to direct and indirect taxation applicable to companies, in all activities: commercial, industrial, agricultural, liberal professions, etc.
The scope of our interventions cover all taxes applicable to our clients: Corporate tax, value added tax VAT, territorial economic contribution, payroll tax, withholding tax, etc.
We advise also numerous individual clients, companies, and associations, on the management of their income tax and wealth tax, and in their relations with the tax authorities. We act either in the context of our clients’ current activities, or prior to or following exceptional operations such as the sale of companies or real estate assets.
Our experience:
Analysis of the accounting and tax treatment
of intangible asset acquisition transactions for a group listed on the CAC 40.
Review and modelling of the tax impacts
of the regulation limiting interest deduction for investment funds.
Analysis and advice to a family holding company
in the context of a transfer of a major private estate ( €50 million)
Defending the interests of a holding company
and its partners with regard to an IS and ISF audit
Private International Law
Our firm covers the whole range of assistance and advice on private international business and European law issues and acts in particular on behalf of :
- individuals, to advise and represent them in their private international and European relations
- companies and economic actors, in their international and European development
Our experience:
We also act in international tax matters both for French tax residents, companies or individuals, having activities or assets abroad, and for foreign tax residents participating in operations in France or owning assets in France.
Assistance with legal due diligence
in the context of a proposed acquisition of a company abroad by a world leader in the IT sector
Monitoring the international activity
of an investment fund under Luxembourg law
Advice on international and European
inheritance matters
Analysis and implementation
of an Asian trading subsidiary for a French SME
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Specialized in tax law and business law
The partners
Maxime Buchet
PartnerMaxime Buchet has developed a broad legal and tax practice in the most renowned law firms in Paris.
Nicolas Melot
PartnerNicolas Melot has a very significant practice in business law and tax law within large international law firms.
Toma Rajcevic
Of CounselToma Rajcevic has extensive experience in international, business, private, arbitration, European and international development law.