Tax structuring that protects your deal economics
Property transactions fail on tax, financing, and exit planning — often simultaneously. Hervé brings unusually deep experience across acquisition vehicles, real estate finance, fund structuring, and cross-border investor holding platforms.
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Cross-border property and investment decisions often involve complex tax, ownership, and financing issues. Tailored advice can help you move with clarity and confidence.
What this advisory covers
In real estate, tax decisions do not sit in isolation. They affect funding, ownership, timing, investor returns, exit flexibility and later exposure under scrutiny. The role of the adviser is to help structure the transaction in a way that remains coherent commercially, internationally, and defensibly.
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Acquisition structuring
SPV design, holding company selection and cross-border acquisition planning for investors acquiring French and European real estate assets.
The objective is to align tax efficiency with lender expectations, investor strategy, operational reality, and future exit flexibility.
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Real estate fund structuring
Pan-European real estate fund vehicles, including Luxembourg and other structuring jurisdictions, for institutional and private investors.
These arrangements must support not only investment efficiency, but also investor confidence, cross-border coherence, and practical governance.
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Finance and debt structuring
Advice on acquisition finance, securitisation, intra-group debt, and sale-and-leaseback arrangements where tax and financing architecture are closely linked.
In many transactions, the financing structure is as decisive as the acquisition structure itself. The advisory approach reflects both.
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Hotel and commercial transactions
Specialist support on hotel disposals, commercial real estate deals, and more complex operational property transactions.
Where real estate, operations and financing intersect, the structuring needs are rarely standard. These are precisely the situations where senior judgement matters most.
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Cross-border investor platforms
Holding structures for Egyptian, Turkish, Middle Eastern, and other international developers or investors acquiring and holding European property assets.
The current page already highlights direct experience with non-European investors entering French and EU real estate markets; this should remain one of the differentiating points of the page.
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Exit and disposal planning
Advice on withholding tax, capital gains, reorganisation before disposal and the tax architecture of exits.
Exit planning should begin early. In many cases, value is preserved not only by the initial structure, but by how disposal has been anticipated from the outset.
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Why investors & developers instruct Hervé Israel
Real estate and finance combined
A combination of deep real estate tax and structured finance experience.
Deal-focused
The advice is built for transaction speed, commercial constraints, and live deal execution — not abstract technical analysis disconnected from the transaction.
International investor experience
Direct experience advising non-European developers and international investors acquiring and holding French and EU real estate.
Built with contentious risk in mind
If a structure or filing is challenged, the advice has been designed with that risk in mind from the outset.
Discuss your transaction with Hervé
Clients usually get in touch before an acquisition, during financing discussions, ahead of a restructuring, or when disposal planning needs to begin earlier than expected. A confidential first conversation can quickly clarify the structuring priorities and the risks that matter most.
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