The law office of Gérard PICOVSCHI consists of several partners and associates, all specialized in different fields of law.
The target of the partners and associates of the firm is to reunite their different fields of specialization in order to enable their International and European clients and partners to do business in Europe, namely by creating the correct legal structure and by optimising their performances in reducing their tax and social security costs.
In this respect, three principal means allow the firm to be outstanding.
Firstly, through its international structure and specialization, the firm has understood the policies of companies and their need to internationalise their activities. In fact, the law firm has for a long period of time supported the view that actual success of a company means worldwide expansion of its activities.
Thus, our firm, owing to its experience and comprehension of foreign markets and companies policies, is able to explain to a company or any business structure how to ?cross its natal boarders? and introduce its policies and goals into the European market.
This is done by studying and analysing the actual internal function of the company?s business as well as its policies, and then demonstrating how these policies can be not only commercially adapted to the European or French market, but also completely in harmony with its international aims and policies set down by its managers or directors.
Secondly, the firm succeeds in applying these policies through its special and unique know-how of European, International and French business law.
This is done by offering the appropriate solutions to companies most important challenges in world business: reduction of costs and efficiency of operations.
Thus, for example, our European business department knows exactly how to create the most adapted legal structure allowing a maximum limited liability of its shareholders.
It consults companies as to how to substantially reduce its social security costs by organizing their work force and remunerating its staff and managers in a manner that will stimulate their interest in promoting the company?s business.
This department is specialised in creating for companies a local and cost efficient sale force that will be highly motivated to expand the sales of the company?s goods and services all over the world and to distribute them in Europe and on the world markets.
It also knows how to create special contractual relationships with this sale force that will allow the company to control their commercial operations.
The European business department is managed by partners and associates that specialize in the following fields of law :
The Corporate attorneys that specialize in the fields of corporate, reduction of company taxes and social security costs, banking & finance, commercial arbitration, project finance, mergers, transfer of companies, insurance, anti-trust, labour policies between companies and their employees and the application of European economic and legal regulations in the field of import, export and distribution of goods and services in the European economic area.
The Real Estate attorneys are specialized in all fields of construction and promotion of construction projects, whether for business or private purposes. They are familiar and well experienced in handling all tax and regulatory aspects of acquisitions of real estate, financing of projects and promotion of acquisition of real property.
The Tax attorneys are specialized in the reduction of companies taxes and social security costs, planning companies payments of taxes, application of international agreements in the field of tax law, optimising business operations of foreign companies in Europe and France by reducing their taxes and successfully representing them before all European and French governmental administrations and courts for the purpose of handling tax and administration issues.
The intellectual property and information technology attorneys specialise in all field of copyright, patents, models, trademarks, appellations and indications of origin, information technology, e-commerce and unfair competition law, as well as in the field of licensing of such rights and distribution of products or services protected by intellectual property rights.
These attorneys are graduates from the best law schools in France, such as the Sorbonne university, and speak, draft and write several languages, namely the French, English, Spanish, and hebrew languages.
Some of them have also post graduate degrees from foreign law schools and are authorized to exercise law in common law countries, thereby enabling the law firm to understand complex legal litigations or contracts resulting from common law countries and apply them to the French civil way of litigating, consulting or drafting contracts.
It is important to note that our office is located in the centre of Paris and is equipped with an advanced computer system compatible with those of our clients, thus enhancing transfer of data.
We are subscribed to many paper and electronic legal data-bases, either national and international, allowing our associates and staff to be up to date with all legal developments in the fields mentioned above.
