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Maritime & Shipping Law Firm of the Year


SELARL FAVAREL & Associés 18, Quai de Rive Neuve 13007 Marseille


Tel : 00.33.(0)4.91.13.03.03 Fax : 00.33.(0)4.91.13.03.04 Email: assistant@favarel-associes.fr


INTRODUCING FAVAREL & ASSOCIÉS to the shipping and offshore industries, including,


Since 1989, Favarel & Associés puts at your service its experience in maritime and international business law. We are well-known for being highly reactive and fast moving in cases of emergency which is often why our clients come to us.


The firm, founded over twenty years ago, is directed by Béatrice Favarel who has been a lawyer, registered at the Marseilles Bar for more than twenty- five years. She has built up a team of dynamic specialized lawyers. The utmost importance is given to keeping up to date with the constant evolution of the law which helps bring forward innovative solutions to your legal issue, whether it be national or international.


Our expertise Favarel & Associés advises on all matters related


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among other things, cargo claims, insurance & reinsurance, shipbuilding, collisions, pollution incidents, and ship arrests.


Our client base encompasses many international insurance and reinsurance companies. Favarel & Associés also advise insurance brokers, and claims adjusters.


Examples of what we do before French commercial, administrative and civil jurisdictions: • Our firm represented various Lloyd’s syndicates in a pollution case involving an FPSO that took place in the Gulf of Mexico (see commentary in the review of reference for French maritime lawyers, le Droit Maritime Français).


• Our firm also intervened in a case involving the collapse of Madonna’s stage during the preparation of her show in Marseilles.


• Our firm, via our correspondent of the network CLEF in Toulouse (Christophe Leguevagues), represented the local council of Toulouse in the AZF proceedings.


An internationally connected firm Lawyers registered in France cannot represent parties before foreign courts if they are not registered abroad. To remedy this, the firm has developed a tight network of friend-firms abroad to ensure the thorough defense of our client’s interests: the Alliance of Business Lawyers (ABL).


ABL links together lawyers from all around the world and counts over 700 members, 51 offices, and represented in 32 countries.


Transfer Pricing Private Equity Lawyer of the Year


Antoine Glaize Partner, head of Transfer Pricing and Business Restructuring department, head of Taxand global Transfer Pricing and Business Restructuring service line Arsene Taxand - 32 rue de Monceau - 75008 Paris - France Tel: +33 1 70 38 88 28 Fax: +33 1 70 38 88 10


Email: antoine.glaize@arsene-taxand.com Website: www.arsene-taxand.com


ABOUT ANTOINE GLAIZE Antoine Glaize is a partner within Arsene Taxand, specialized in Transfer Pricing and Head of the Global Taxand Transfer Pricing service line.


Before joining Arsene, Antoine successively worked for an audit and consultancy firm, from 2000 till 2006 when he was responsible for the Transfer Pricing practice and member of the European Executive committee. Antoine spent a part of his professional career at the French Ministry of Economy, Finance and Industry, where, from 1997, he was responsible for Transfer Pricing and APAs as Head of The Tax Audit Office and The Office of International Affairs of the General Directorate of The French Tax authorities.


Antoine is graduated as an engineer and from the Institut des Etudes Politiques de Paris and the Ecole Nationale d’Administration


Antoine has specialized in transfer pricing, 18 years ago, and has accumulated a wide and diversified experience in all transfer pricing areas.


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Arsene Taxand is the first business law firm in France exclusively specializing in tax. A founding member of TAXAND (spanning 50 countries, with 300 partners and 2,000 tax advisors), our firm is independent and not related to any audit or law firm.


Within Arsene Taxand, the Transfer Pricing and Business Structuring department, with a team of 9 people including 2 partners, composed of economists and lawyers, assists large companies and middle size business companies who wish to develop internationally.


We help our clients defining their transfer pricing strategy and implementing their documentation


• Transfer pricing policy design: appropriate and efficient diagnosis of transfer pricing policy as well as recommendation for its improvement and implementation of proposed changes.


• Documentation: justification of a transfer pricing policy, implementation of French documentation obligations, adaptation to the pricing setting policy,


analysis of target situations taking into account the economic environment.


We support the operational strategy in business structuring and supply chain and the management of intangible assets in accordance with the international and national regulations in force focusing on assessment and securing of tax risks and valuation of intangible assets (trademarks and patents) for tax purposes.


We defend the transfer pricing policy of our clients in the context of litigations or pre-litigations with Tax Authorities


• Tax audit assistance: Definition and implementation of defense strategy, management of the relationship and negotiation with Tax Authorities…


• Advanced pricing agreements and mutual agreement procedures: initiation of procedures, assistance during the negotiation phase with competent authorities, management of the consequences relative to the agreement…


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