Legal and tax support

Legal support and tax advice

Your company’s financial, legal, tax and administrative environment is both complex and constantly changing. This is why a team of ten people, lawyers and tax specialists in permanent contact with your accountant, answer your questions on business and tax law in order to assist and secure you, as well as to take the burden off your shoulders. This way, you can dedicate all your time to your job with complete peace of mind.

Advantages

Legal and fiscal security of your projects

Assignments are carried out by specialists in taxation and company law.

Choose a solution adapted to the specifics of your situation.

Address fiscal and social implications.

Anticipate future relationships between partners.

Make decisions more secure.

Benefits

Timesaving and financial gain

Optimise the financial implications of the options selected.

Save the time you would otherwise have spent setting up, executing and finalising the transaction in a complex regulatory environment.

Meet management’s legal obligations and avoid being held liable.

Safely take advantage of fewer formalities enacted by the legislator.

Our services

Our legal and tax services

  • Ordinary corporate actions
  • Capital transactions
  • Disposal - acquisition - merger
  • Asset taxation
  • Corporate tax issues
  • Tax strategy for corporate groups
Ordinary corporate actions
Capital transactions
Disposal - acquisition - merger
Asset taxation
Corporate tax issues
Tax strategy for corporate groups

Would you like to delegate and secure your company’s legal and administrative formalities ?

SYGNATURES :

  • Carries out occasional and yearly legal secretarial work
  • Relieves you of all the administrative formalities of corporate life
  • Assists you in securing and negotiating your contracts (leases, management leases, etc.)
100%

Full outsourcing

Are you considering having investors or managers take a stake in your company’s capital ?

SYGNATURES can assist you throughout this key moment by:

  • drawing up the transaction presentation file
  • holding preparatory meetings with stakeholders
  • implementing the selected plan
  • drafting the documentation
30%

Specific mission

Are you considering an external growth operation or streamlining your group structure ?

SYGNATURES can take care of the entire process, including the legal and tax aspects, including:

  • analysing tax consequence to determine the optimal scheme
  • negotiating the memorandum and associated documents
  • carrying out corporate transactions
100%

Full outsourcing

Do you have questions about the management or transfer of your assets ?

SYGNATURES offers you all-round support, including:

  • analysing your situation,
  • identifying your objectives and constraints
  • preparing and presenting the numerical analysis required to determine the optimal solution
  • organising the implementation of the operation with your various advisers (notary, lawyer, asset management consultant)
30%

Specific mission

Would you like to secure and control the tax impact of your decisions or external events ?

SYGNATURES can supply you with analyses, studies and simulations, allowing you to choose the optimal solution, anticipate the cost, and minimise risks and unforeseen events, including with regard to:

  • Tax regime changes and conversions,
  • Consequences of asset disposals,
  • Preferential regimes,
  • The exercising of a finance lease option,
  • Tax rulings
  • Assistance with tax audits
30%

Specific mission

Are you looking to control risks and take advantage of opportunities in view of the complexity of the rules governing intra-group relations ?

SYGNATURES can advise you on how to secure your group scheme, identify areas for optimisation and implement them, including for:

  • Service agreements
  • Intra-group financial relations
  • Tax consolidation
  • Deductibility of financial expenses
  • Transfer price
100%

Full outsourcing

Our experts

Toulouse

Irène Goaziou-Huret

Associate director legal and tax division, Doctor of civil law

ihuret@sygnatures.com

Irène Goaziou-Huret holds a doctorate in law and is the author of publications in legal journals. Before joining SYGNATURES, Irène Goaziou-Huret was a research professor at the University of Toulouse 1. She has nearly 20 years of experience in corporate transactions involving high financial or tax implications. In addition to leading the legal and tax teams, she is involved in complex transactions, in particular the transfer of securities and the structuring of groups of companies .

Our clients

Ergonova is a leading group in ergonomics / human factor. Centred around overall job-related performance and occupational health, what it offers covers all of the areas of application of ergonomics in industry and the services to major groups, SMI and SME nationally and internationally.

ERGONOVA

In Saint-Jean (31), the company Boxer Design has set itself an interesting challenge: to relaunch and revive a famous English motorcycle brand that had disappeared, Brough Superior.

BROUGH SUPERIOR

Cylad Consulting is a Strategy and Management consultancy firm for general and operational managers of large industrial companies. 5 offices worldwide and 70 consultants are thus tasked with supporting their clients to develop their activity and improve their performance.

CYLAD CONSULTING

Val Software is a publisher of software for those involved in professional training: training centres, human resources and collection agencies.

VAL SOFTWARE

Corus is the leading European group of laboratories for dental solutions set up to lead the technological transformation of dental prostheses in the sector.

Corus

In the world of precision machining, the AGILITEAM Group aims to bring together and combine the most advanced know-how for the benefit of the industrial excellence of its customers and their strategic expectations.

Agiliteam

V-Nano specialises in the development and production of injectable nano-emulsions on behalf of third parties.

V-NANO

The Paul Armagnac circuit or CPA, often called the Nogaro circuit, is a racetrack located in the Gers département, in the municipality of Nogaro and managed by the Paul-Armagnac public-private partnership (SEMPA)

CIRCUIT PAUL ARMAGNAC NOGARO (SEMPA)

Valiantys is a consultancy firm specialising in the deployment and adoption of, and support for, Atlassian tools. Their main mission is to support companies in implementing collaborative work solutions which improve the teams’ productivity. The company makes available to its clients certified consultants based in France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, the United States, Canada and China.

 

VALIANTYS

The foundation stone of La Compagnie des Pergos was laid in 2004 with the opening of an address which has become not to be missed in Toulouse: La Pergola. Coming from a family of restaurateurs, Thomas Fantini, the creator of the La Pergola brand name and of La Compagnie des Pergos, is keeping alive the values of the south west through his brand names: authenticity, quality, conviviality and generosity.

COMPAGNIE DES PERGOS RESTAURATION

The company Station Diesel Thermo King is a dealer with its network of branches located in the south of France and specialises in the temperature-controlled transportation sector.

THERMO KING (STATION DIESEL)

ETHIQUABLE is a French cooperative enterprise (SCOP) which has, since 2003, championed free trade carried out in organic peasant farming. With 25 million fair trade and organic products sold in 2019, ETHIQUABLEis showing that its innovative and unique model in supermarkets is making the difference for more than 80 organisations of producers in France and throughout the world.

ETHIQUABLE

Alès Groupe is a company that has, since 1969, been specialising in the design, manufacture and sale of plant-based hair and skin care products.

ALES GROUPE

The Clinique Médipôle Garonne, better known under the name Clinique du Sport, offers a range of surgical, medical and rehabilitation and recuperative care. It is a member of both Clinavenir, which brings together the independent clinics of Toulouse, and Santécité, which brings together the national independent clinics.

CLINIQUE MEDIPÔLE GARONNE

Selling new and second-hand machine tools, in sheet metal machining and shaping, for over 35 years, the SCOMO Group has become one of the leaders in supplying high technology capital equipment in France.

SCOMO

MIDI 2i is a property management and engineering company, created in December 2005 out of the desire of the Caisse d’Épargne de Midi-Pyrénées to realise property investment transactions. With nearly 800 million euros invested, MIDI 2i currently occupies pole position in the office and retail property market in the far south west of France.

MIDI 2i

Ergonova is a leading group in ergonomics / human factor. Centred around overall job-related performance and occupational health, what it offers covers all of the areas of application of ergonomics in industry and the services to major groups, SMI and SME nationally and internationally.

ERGONOVA

In Saint-Jean (31), the company Boxer Design has set itself an interesting challenge: to relaunch and revive a famous English motorcycle brand that had disappeared, Brough Superior.

BROUGH SUPERIOR

Cylad Consulting is a Strategy and Management consultancy firm for general and operational managers of large industrial companies. 5 offices worldwide and 70 consultants are thus tasked with supporting their clients to develop their activity and improve their performance.

CYLAD CONSULTING

Val Software is a publisher of software for those involved in professional training: training centres, human resources and collection agencies.

VAL SOFTWARE

Corus is the leading European group of laboratories for dental solutions set up to lead the technological transformation of dental prostheses in the sector.

Corus

In the world of precision machining, the AGILITEAM Group aims to bring together and combine the most advanced know-how for the benefit of the industrial excellence of its customers and their strategic expectations.

Agiliteam

V-Nano specialises in the development and production of injectable nano-emulsions on behalf of third parties.

V-NANO

The Paul Armagnac circuit or CPA, often called the Nogaro circuit, is a racetrack located in the Gers département, in the municipality of Nogaro and managed by the Paul-Armagnac public-private partnership (SEMPA)

CIRCUIT PAUL ARMAGNAC NOGARO (SEMPA)

Valiantys is a consultancy firm specialising in the deployment and adoption of, and support for, Atlassian tools. Their main mission is to support companies in implementing collaborative work solutions which improve the teams’ productivity. The company makes available to its clients certified consultants based in France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, the United States, Canada and China.

 

VALIANTYS

The foundation stone of La Compagnie des Pergos was laid in 2004 with the opening of an address which has become not to be missed in Toulouse: La Pergola. Coming from a family of restaurateurs, Thomas Fantini, the creator of the La Pergola brand name and of La Compagnie des Pergos, is keeping alive the values of the south west through his brand names: authenticity, quality, conviviality and generosity.

COMPAGNIE DES PERGOS RESTAURATION

The company Station Diesel Thermo King is a dealer with its network of branches located in the south of France and specialises in the temperature-controlled transportation sector.

THERMO KING (STATION DIESEL)

ETHIQUABLE is a French cooperative enterprise (SCOP) which has, since 2003, championed free trade carried out in organic peasant farming. With 25 million fair trade and organic products sold in 2019, ETHIQUABLEis showing that its innovative and unique model in supermarkets is making the difference for more than 80 organisations of producers in France and throughout the world.

ETHIQUABLE

Alès Groupe is a company that has, since 1969, been specialising in the design, manufacture and sale of plant-based hair and skin care products.

ALES GROUPE

The Clinique Médipôle Garonne, better known under the name Clinique du Sport, offers a range of surgical, medical and rehabilitation and recuperative care. It is a member of both Clinavenir, which brings together the independent clinics of Toulouse, and Santécité, which brings together the national independent clinics.

CLINIQUE MEDIPÔLE GARONNE

Selling new and second-hand machine tools, in sheet metal machining and shaping, for over 35 years, the SCOMO Group has become one of the leaders in supplying high technology capital equipment in France.

SCOMO

MIDI 2i is a property management and engineering company, created in December 2005 out of the desire of the Caisse d’Épargne de Midi-Pyrénées to realise property investment transactions. With nearly 800 million euros invested, MIDI 2i currently occupies pole position in the office and retail property market in the far south west of France.

MIDI 2i