Bespoke Avocats

What Bespoke Avocats offers English speakers in Nice

Thomas Dubanchet is an avocat fiscaliste, a lawyer specialising in tax, and the narrow thing he is known for is the France and United States overlap. American citizens are taxed by the US on worldwide income wherever they live, so an American in France files in both systems and the treaty has to be read against both sets of rules at once. Trusts, gift tax under Article 750 ter of the French tax code, estate planning across two conflicting inheritance regimes, and the tax consequences of a move or a visa application all sit in that gap. UK and Australian files come up as well.

English here is fluent enough that clients call the advice bilingual rather than translated, which matters when the subject is a treaty clause and a wrong reading is expensive. The pattern in his record is people arriving after paying somebody else. A US trusts and estates attorney, professionally equipped to judge, says Dubanchet asked meaningful questions and produced a written outline of the options with a specific recommendation. Others had spent two years with a large Paris firm without a straight answer, or money with French lawyers for nothing usable. The output tends to be a report you can act on rather than a conversation you have to reconstruct afterwards. He also turned around a document needed for a visa application quickly. The office is on Avenue du Maréchal Foch in Nice.