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Xavier Renard

Work Department
Partner, Deputy Office Managing Partner
Position
Xavier Renard is a partner in the Paris office of Latham & Watkins and the Local Chair of the Tax Department.
Mr. Renard is active in the field of corporate taxation and provides general tax advice to French and multinational groups of companies, investment funds, and financial institutions. He is also specialized on the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, financings of groups of companies, tax consolidation regimes, taxation of financial products, and asset financing transactions.
Mr. Renard is a member of the International Fiscal Association and the Institut des Avocats Conseils Fiscaux.
Lawyer Rankings
France > Tax
(Leading individuals: Transactional/corporate tax)Latham & Watkins‘ tax team excels in the field of private equity, in line with the firm’s thriving corporate practice in that area. The tax team frequently works with the corporate practice to advise the largest French and international private equity house on their most high-profile LBO transactions. The tax team is one of Ardian’s preferred advisers and recently assisted the client with its first transaction in the US. The tax team also regularly works for private equity funds’ portfolio companies, notably on major financing, debt restructuring and capital markets transactions. Its body of work also includes prominent mandates from banks and corporations. The tax team was recently involved in the very complex carve-out of a leading French company. The excellent duo Xavier Renard and Olivia Rauch-Ravisé direct the team.
Paris > Droit fiscal
(Les grands avocats du marché: Fiscalité transactionnelle et des entreprises)L’équipe fiscale de Latham & Watkins‘ est incontournable dans le domaine du capital-investissement ; dans le prolongement naturel de l’excellente pratique corporate du cabinet dans ce domaine. L’équipe fiscale travaille d’ailleurs en étroite collaboration avec le pôle corporate pour conseiller les plus grands fonds de private equity dans leurs opérations de LBO les plus haut de gamme. L’équipe fiscale est l’un des conseils privilégiés d’Ardian qu’elle a récemment accompagné dans sa première opération aux États-Unis. Elle intervient aussi régulièrement pour les sociétés figurant dans le portefeuille de ses clients, pour leurs opérations majeures de financement, de restructuration de dettes et de marchés de capitaux. L’équipe fiscale assiste enfin de grandes banques et sociétés. Elle a récemment été impliquée dans un important carve-out d’une société française de premier plan. La pratique est dirigée par l’excellent duo composé de Xavier Renard et Olivia Rauch-Ravisé .
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: transactional work
- Derivatives and structured finance
- EU, competition and distribution
- Insolvency
- Private equity: LBO
Firm Rankings
- Capital markets: debt capital markets
- Capital markets: equity capital markets
- Compliance
- Data privacy and data protection
- Industry focus: IT and internet
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Tax
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Employment
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences