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Mrs Laurence Clot
Work Department
Tax
Position
Laurence Clot is a Partner in Dentons’ Paris Tax group.
Laurence’s practice mainly focuses on international tax issues for French and foreign groups in a wide range of industries, including life sciences, insurance, and new technologies. She has developed a specific expertise in taxation of innovation in the context of the management of intangible assets, in particular while implementing “IP & IT box” schemes, but also in the context of complex transactions for groups with important IP and IT portfolio, where research and development are key factors of their strategies.
Laurence has also been advising companies in the insurance sector for many years in connection with their complex transactions (acquisitions, mergers, tax litigation, setting up of partnerships). She has also advised several insurance groups in the context of the reorganization of their groups or partnerships to include aspects of future tax reforms, particularly with respect to VAT. Finally, Laurence has advised several software publishers in connection with the new tax scheme for intangible assets.
Career
Joined Dentons in 2022
Partner, Head of the Tax Group, Bird & Bird, 2011 – 2022
Director, Lawyer, Landwell & Associés, 2004 – 2011
Senior Manager, PwC, 2002 – 2004
Manager, Coopers & Lybrand avocats, 1996 – 2002
Memberships
Admitted to the Bar, Paris, 1997
Education
University of Paris II – Panthéon Assas, 1996, DEA, Public Finance & International Taxation
University of Paris Dauphine, 1994, DESS, Taxation
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- Banking and finance: transactional work
- Industry focus: Luxury goods
- Insurance
- Intellectual property: Copyright
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
- Employment
- Industry focus: Energy
- Private equity: venture/growth capital
- EU, competition and distribution
- Insolvency
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity: Fund formation
- Private equity: LBO
- Project finance
- Real estate
- Tax
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: White-collar crime