Mr Stéphane Gelin > CMS Francis Lefebvre > Paris, France > Lawyer Profile
CMS Francis Lefebvre Offices
2 RUE ANCELLE
92522 NEUILLY-SUR-SEINE
France
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Mr Stéphane Gelin
Work Department
Taxation - International taxation.
Position
Stéphane Gelin is Head of the CMS Tax Group. In this position, he leads an international team of 400 tax lawyers. He specialises in international taxation and transfer pricing. He has advised French and international multinational corporations in this field for nearly thirty years. He has participated in several major projects involving the structuring of global transfer pricing, operational restructuring and the documentation of French and foreign transfer pricing. He offers his clients assistance in French and international tax litigation (specifically competent authority procedures, arbitration procedures and advance pricing agreements). He also advises clients on international financing matters, cross-border restructuring, joint ventures and acquisitions.
Career
Stéphane joined the International Taxation Department of CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre in June 2003 as a partner, having spent sixteen years at Ernst & Young in Paris, where he was the partner responsible for the transfer pricing business, and in New York where he was responsible for the French tax desk.
Languages
French, English
Memberships
Member of the Council of the Chartered Institute of Taxation, IFA (International Fiscal Association), ACE (French Association of Corporate Legal Advisors) and IACF (French Institute of Tax Lawyers).
Education
Graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris (Economics and finance-1986); Master’s degree in business law and taxation (Paris V, 1983) ; DESS [postgraduate specialised diploma] in business law and taxation, with a speciality in applied taxation (Paris V, 1985).
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- Capital markets: debt capital markets
- Data privacy and data protection
- Derivatives and structured finance
- Employment
- Industry focus: IT and internet
- Media and entertainment: Music
- Tax
- Administrative and public law
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Environment
- EU, competition and distribution
- Industry focus: Energy
- Insolvency
- Intellectual property: Copyright
- Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
- Private equity: Fund formation
- Banking and finance: transactional work
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Real estate
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Capital markets: equity capital markets