Ms Xenia Legendre > Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP > Paris, France > Lawyer Profile

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

Work Department

Corporate

Position

Office Managing Partner

Career

Xenia Legendre works with multinational groups and investment funds to structure their cross border transactions. She acts in all environments – M&A, restructuring, distressed acquisition or disposition. Creative, solution oriented, Xenia pays specific attention to the connection between tax structures and business operations. Having a solid corporate M&A background, Xenia perfectly understands the deal dynamics. Working closely with corporate deal teams, Xenia is very strong in ‘selling’ the most efficient structures to all parties. She is quite successful in integrating all possible parameters (tax, corporate, labour, and environmental, etc) towards achieving an efficient solution.

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.