
TOMBOIS AVOCATS is a law firm specialised in Family & Tax Law, Inheritance Law and International Tax matters for individuals.
We work in French, German and English, for an important worldwide clientele.
FAMILY & TAX LAW
Our law firm operates in France and abroad on the following matters:
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Family & tax law: prenuptial agreements or civil partnership contracts, divorce, end of civil partnership or common-law partnership, parental authority, etc.
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Estate & tax planning: wills, gifts, real estate, incorporation & administration of legal structures to buy and hold French properties (SCI), preparation & submission of French tax returns, tax pre-litigation & litigation, etc.
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Inheritance law: counsel & assistance through the estate settlement process, probates, administration of joint tenancies, inheritance dispute resolution or litigation, etc.)
A DUAL EXPERTISE:
LAWYER / NOTARY
Thanks to a notarial training course, our dual expertise Lawyer-Notary gives us an overall view of your requirements and allows us to efficiently organise all needed asistance – regarding judicial, legal and tax aspects – cost-effectively.
This dual expertise can be particularly useful with real estate transactions; for example, it can allow an effecient monitoring of the whole buying or selling process and an effective real estate ownership structuring (creation of a property management company - Société Civile Immobilière "SCI").
Depending on the client's needs, our mission can also include Family Office services, such as management of legal and financial affairs, day-to-day accounting and payroll activities, household staff management, travel arragements, etc.
A SPECIFIC SKILL:
LAWYER-TRUSTEE
TOMBOIS AVOCATS is registered to act on behalf of fiduciary beneficiaries as a recognized Lawyer-Trustee, like less than 10 lawyers in France.
This distinctive characteristic adds the French equivalent of trust, known as Fiducie, as a new tool for family governance, for example as a protection against possible creditors.
TOMBOIS AVOCATS can also advise on trust contract's drafting or act as trustee, i.e. hold property on behalf of its clients.

Alexis TOMBOIS
Avocat à la Cour
Avocat Fiduciaire
After attending the German department of the Lycée International de St Germain en Laye, he continues with a Franco-German Law degree from the Université de Paris X, and attends the DESS droit notarial course at Paris II Panthéon-Assas with Monsieur le Professeur Michel GRIMALDI.
Jurist at the law firm HOHL & Associés since January 2000, he is admitted to the Paris Bar on 7 January 2004, and becomes a partner in January 2005.
In January 2014, HOHL & Associés becomes Bassano Avocats and at the same time, Alexis creates SELARLU BASSANO FIDUCIAIRE - now TOMBOIS AVOCATS - to practise as Lawyer-Trustee.
From 2007 to 2014, he is Secretary-General of the Union des Avocats Européens, an association gathering about 400 lawyers from the European Union.
He is also a member of other international associations, such as:
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FBLS (Franco-British Lawyers Society)
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AJFA (Franco-German Lawyers Society - Association des Juristes Français et Allemands)