Overview
Your Tax Lawyers
Esq. Delphine Parigi - Founding Partner
Attorney At Law
Tax Lawyer since 2005, Delphine Parigi began her career with EY Société d’Avocats in Paris-La Défense and in New York. In 2011, she launched DPZ, a boutique lawfirm in Nice, providing high-value technical services in an international context, but according to her values of proximity and accessibility.
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Key experiences
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Advising on French and international tax issues on cross-border M&A in transactions as well as dealing with the tax aspects of the reorganisation of the multi-jurisdictional business entities
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Advising on international tax issues surrounding real-property investment
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Advising on hotel developments – the advice related to offshore structuring, putting the site together, construction and the tax planning for realisation of value post development
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Advising numerous clients on tax efficient investments using different types of structures depending on the financial circumstances of the high net worth individuals
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Assisting individuals on tax audits and negotiations with the administrative and tax services
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Advising on international relocations
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Advising on the establishment of operations in France – advice extended to corporation tax that would apply, as well as VAT and the applicability of the relevant Double Taxation Treaty.
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Advising on the international structuring and withholding taxes as well as jurisdiction specific exit charges regarding notably jewellery group and pharmaceutical group
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Advising on daily tax management of companies
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Advising on transactional matters within an international context, including internal reorganisations, implementation of financial structures and mergers and acquisitions (including due diligences and structuring)
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Assisting companies in pre-litigation and litigation procedures before the tax courts
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Career history
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March 2011 until today – Tax partner at DPZ Avocats
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2013 : Lecturer – International business taxation – EDHEC – Nice
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2012 & 2013 : Lecturer – International business taxation – BBA EDHEC – Nice
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Feb. 2005 – Nov. 2010 – Tax attorney at law – Ernst & Young Société d’Avocats – Paris La Défense / New York
Tax Manager – Department Financial Services Office – Paris
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Tax senior – Department Transaction Tax – Paris
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Tax senior – French Tax Desk – New York
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Tax associate – Department M&C / ITS (International tax services) – Paris
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2004 – Paris Bar Exam – EFB
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2003 – Master degree in corporate and tax law – Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne / HEC
Thomas Dubanchet
Senior Tax Lawyer
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Key experiences
- Support for French companies in their day-to-day tax management, as well as for exceptional operations (restructuring, acquisitions, disposals, etc.), both regarding the tax aspects and the setting up of legal structures
- Advice to foreign companies on all their tax issues, and in particular on the risks of characterizing a permanent establishment in France, or on the consequences of holding real estate in France, whether or not it is rented out
- Advice to Private Trust Companies on the tax and reporting obligations when the trust has a connection with France
- Advice to company directors in structuring their real estate holdings (setting up an ad hoc company, temporary assignment of usufruct, direct ownership, etc.), as well as in transferring their personal and professional assets (contribution-cession transactions, gifts prior to transfer, setting up of Pactes Dutreil, etc.)
- Support for French and foreign private clients in their tax choices and estate planning
- Assistance with tax audits and litigation in France
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Career history
- Since May 2023 – Tax lawyer at DPZ Avocats – Nice
- Sep. 2021 to Apr. 2023 – Tax lawyer at Cabinet Sollberger - Nice
- Sep. 2020 to Sep. 2021 – Legal and tax advisor at Cabinet Gordon S. Blair – Monaco
- Apr. 2018 to Sep. 2020 – Tax lawyer at Tirard Naudin - Paris
- Oct. 2016 to Apr. 2018 – Tax lawyer at EY Société d'Avocats - Paris
Bruno Gherardi
Tax Lawyer
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Key experiences
- Support to company directors in structuring their activities, setting up holding companies and tax strategy
- Advice on the implementation of tax leverage as part of the sale or transfer of a business and determination of the tax consequences of the transaction
- Analysis of the tax residence of individuals and legal entities and management of formalities relating to departure from or arrival in France
- Assistance with tax procedures and management of tax disputes before the administrative and judicial courts
- Drawing up and checking tax returns (income tax, property wealth tax, 3% tax, manual donations and sums of money, inheritance tax returns)
- Assistance from company formation to sale or dissolution (e.g., incorporation of companies, general meetings, distribution of dividends, conversions, capital increases and reductions, cash and shareholder current account agreements, deeds of sale)
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Career history
- Since July 2023 - Tax lawyer at DPZ AVOCATS - Nice
- January 2023 to June 2023 - Corporate lawyer at Cabinet SOLLBERGER - Nice
- January 2023 - Admitted as an attorney to the Nice Law Bar Association
- March 2022 to December 2023 - Legal advisor at Cabinet SOLLBERGER - Nice
- September 2021 to February 2022 - Legal advisor at AUDIT MEDITERRANEE accounting and auditing group - Nice
Coralie Dindaud
Office Manager
Property Manager for 8 years, Coralie Dindaud has acquired solid experience in the field of administrative management and customer relations. Sharing the vision of excellence and the sense of client service developed at DPZ Avocats, she joined this boutique law firm in 2022.
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Key experiences
- Personalized customer relationship management
- Assistance in the administrative and accounting management of files
- Management of Digital Communication and Marketing for the Firm
- Event contact
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Career history
- 2022: Office Manager at DPZ Avocats – Nice
- 2021 - 2022: Technical Inspector for Nexity - Nice
- 2019 – 2020: Property manager at Hayter International- Paris 8
- 2017 - 2018: Master 2 in Management of real estate assets - Faculty of Paris