Altaïr Avocats Accelerates Its Development and Strengthens Its Tax Practice

Altaïr Avocats is reaching a new key milestone in its development and reaffirming its ambition: to strengthen its position as a leading business law firm serving companies, executives and investors on their most strategic matters.

As part of this momentum, the firm is significantly reinforcing its tax practice with the arrival of Philippe Pescayre, former managing partner of Alerion Avocats, and Julien Lebel, joining as partners together with their team.

This reflects Altaïr Avocats’ determination to make its tax practice one of the drivers of its positioning, through an integrated and pragmatic approach geared toward creating value for businesses.

« Joining Altaïr Avocats means carrying forward a strong ambition for a tax practice that is already well recognized in the market, conceived as a strategic lever serving our clients’ challenges. The goal is to set this team on a demanding, pragmatic growth path that is open to international scope », says Julien Lebel.

Effective since early January, the integration of Philippe Pescayre and Julien Lebel’s team is fully in line with Altaïr Avocats’ growth strategy, based on consolidating high-value-added expertise and scaling up its Paris office. It supports the firm’s change in scale and its commitment to pursuing a strategy of integrating recognized teams, particularly in the fields of employment law, financing, mergers and acquisitions, and restructuring.

« After nearly thirty years of practice and a formative experience as managing partner, I wanted to join a project combining an entrepreneurial spirit, collective ambition and agility. I want to help build a Paris office set to change scale », says Philippe Pescayre.

This integration continues the entrepreneurial project undertaken by Altaïr Avocats since its founding in 2019, marked by continuous growth and the progressive expansion of its areas of expertise and locations.

« The arrival of this excellent team illustrates our determination to combine external growth with the structuring of our key areas of expertise. It is part of the firm’s growth trajectory », concludes Christophe Héry, co-founder of Altaïr Avocats.

With nearly thirty years of experience, Philippe Pescayre practices in personal wealth taxation, corporate taxation and real estate taxation, as well as tax audits and litigation. He is recognized for his expertise in the international taxation of individuals and advises a client base of executives, business owners, family shareholders and entrepreneurial groups, particularly in the real estate and industrial sectors. Regularly ranked by leading directories, he is also active within international professional networks, including the IACF and the IBA.

A tax lawyer for seventeen years, Julien Lebel works mainly in corporate tax law and wealth taxation, both in advisory and contentious matters. He has recognized expertise in business succession planning (notably Dutreil arrangements), in structuring real estate investments involving furnished-accommodation (“parahôtellerie”) issues, and in advising professional athletes — a practice still little covered in the market.

The two partners are joined by William Mathiotte, Counsel, whose practice is dedicated exclusively to wealth and trust taxation, and Mathilde Colonna d’Istria, Associate.

For more information:

CF News, Altaïr Avocats accélère en fiscalité
https://www.cfnews.net/L-actualite/Nominations/Avocat/Altair-Avocats-accelere-en-fiscalite-556145

MesInfos.fr, Philippe Pescayre et Julien Lebel rejoignent Altaïr Avocats
https://mesinfos.fr/75000-paris/philippe-pescayre-et-julien-lebel-rejoignent-altair-avocats-238577.html