Thomas Claudel > Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP > Paris, France > Lawyer Profile

Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP
17 AVENUE MATIGNON
CS30027
75378 PARIS
France

Work Department

Tax

Position

Counsel

Career

Thomas Claudel has strong experience in domestic and cross-border transactional tax law, notably in private equity and mergers and acquisitions. Thomas’ practice also focuses on the taxation of capital markets transactions (initial public offering and high yield transactions), financial instruments, and structured financings.

He has developed a wealth of knowledge in the fields of real-estate transaction tax, tax controversy and compensation and benefits schemes.

Languages

English, French

Education

Postgraduate Degree in Business Law, University of Nancy, 2010

Postgraduate Degree in EU Economic Law, University of Nancy, 2009

Graduate Degree in Business Law, University of Nancy, 2008

Lawyer Rankings

France > Tax

Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP‘s tax team runs a solid transactional practice. Working alongside the firm’s corporate practice, the tax team regularly assists leading private equity houses with LBO and venture capital transactions. It is also increasingly involved alongside the restructuring and insolvency practice to assist with the tax aspects linked to prominent work in that area. Finally, the tax team also advises companies on their tax restructurings and completed a major asset transaction in Africa in the telecoms sector. Pracrtice head Xenia Legendre, Ludovic Geneston and counsel Thomas Claudel are the key names. Counsel Laurent Ragot left in early 2022.

Paris > Droit fiscal

L’équipe fiscale d’ Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP présente une solide expertise transactionnelle. Intervenant aux côtés du pôle corporate du cabinet, l’équipe fiscale assiste régulièrement de grandes sociétés de capital-investissement dans des opérations de LBO et de capital-risque. Elle agit aussi de manière croissante en tandem avec la pratique de retournement d’entreprises du cabinet pour traiter les aspects fiscaux liés à des dossiers de place dans ce domaine. Enfin, l’équipe fiscale conseille des entreprises sur leurs restructurations fiscales et a été impliquée dans une importante opération en Afrique dans le secteur des télécoms. L’associée-gérante du cabinet Xenia LegendreLudovic Geneston et le counsel Thomas Claudel sont les principaux intervenants. A noter, le départ de l’avocat counsel Laurent Ragot début 2022.