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25 RUE DE MARIGNAN
75008 PARIS
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Edouard Chapellier

Work Department
Tax
Position
Édouard is widely recognised as one of the leading tax practitioners in France and heads the firm’s French tax practice.
Édouard advises corporates, private equity firms and investment banks on domestic and international tax law, especially on the tax structuring of complex cross-border corporate, banking and capital markets transactions, including Leveraged Buyouts (LBOs), joint ventures and real estate acquisitions.
Édouard also has extensive experience in structuring private equity and real estate investment funds in a range of jurisdictions, including Luxembourg, Jersey and France.
Career
2000 – present: Linklaters
Languages
French, English
Memberships
Édouard is a member of the tax committee of France Invest, the French professional organisation for private equity, and was instrumental in helping to draft the law that introduced limited partnerships into French law.
Édouard is also the French representative member in the tax committee of Invest Europe, and he regularly participates in a number of working groups with various French professional organisations. He has been serving as Chair of this committee since 2021.
Édouard regularly speaks at conferences on tax and funds subjects.
Education
Édouard studied law at the University of Paris-Sceaux and economics, accounting and tax at Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC Paris) and holds a post-graduate degree in corporate tax from the University of Paris-Dauphine.
Lawyer Rankings
France > Tax
(Hall of Fame)With a strong footing in the transactional market, Linklaters has extensive expertise in taxation relating to M&A and capital markets transactions. On the finance front, the group is also skilled at acquisition financings, structured financings, investment fund structuring and issuances of publicly traded securities. Edouard Chapellier sits at the head of the practice and specialises in the structuring of LBO, M&A and real estate transactions. Cyril Boussion ably supports the practice with specialist knowledge in the tax structuring and launch of private equity, infrastructure and real estate investment funds.
France > Private equity: Fund formation
The team at Linklaters specialises in the structuring and formation of private equity vehicles, funds of funds, ETFs and debt funds, as well as related regulatory, corporate, and tax mandates. Leadership of the practice is shared between tax and investment specialists Edouard Chapellier and Cyril Boussion; and Ngoc-Hong Ma, who has particular expertise in advising investment funds, private equity houses and financial institutions on the regulatory environment surrounding fund management.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: transactional work
- Capital markets: debt capital markets
- EU, competition and distribution
- Industry focus: Energy
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Project finance
Firm Rankings
- Administrative and public law
- Data privacy and data protection
- Derivatives and structured finance
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: Stock market litigation
- Employment
- Insolvency
- Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
- Private equity: LBO
- Real estate
- Tax
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity: Fund formation