Emmanuel Galifer

Contact

Tél : +33 (0)6 12 33 66 40

Fax : +33 (0)1 42 25 13 43

Distinctions

Legal 500 2023 – Band 5 – Tax Section : “Emmanuel Galifer knows how to transmit his analyzes with great clarity. Emmanuel Galifer is a very accessible lawyer, relevant, serious and always available in case of urgent question. Strong sense of service. Reassures the customer by finding appropriate solutions. Availability. Responsiveness. Very pleasant. Optimized fees. Conclusion: the perfect combination.“

Legal 500 2022 – Band 5 – Tax Section : “Emmanuel Galifer is very professional, nice, creative, clear and precise. He makes complex matters look clearer, which helps clients to take to the best decision. His analyses are always business-oriented“.

Legal 500 2021 – Band 4 – Tax Section : “Emmanuel Galifer is very professional, nice, creative, clear and precise. He makes complex matters look clearer, which helps clients to take to the best decision. His analyses are always business-oriented“.

Legal 500 2020 – Next Generation Lawyer – Tax Section : “Emmanuel Galifer is very smart and easygoing, renders tax issues intelligible, and sees the whole picture”

Legal 500 2019 – Next Generation Lawyer – Tax Section : ” The knowledgeable, smart and practical Emmanuel Galifer makes tax issues understandable »

Legal 500 2018 – Band 2 – Real Estate Section : ” Tax partner Emmanuel Galifer is ‘excellent, easily understandable, elaborates solutions and is clearly one to watch and consider’

Legal 500 2017 – Band 2 – Real Estate Section

Legal 500 2016 – Band 2 – Real Estate Section : “Emmanuel Galifer shows flexibility and force of conviction in designing tax property structures” and he is described as “pertinent and precise”.

Legal 500 2014 – Band 2 – Real Estate Section : ” Emmanuel Galifer is a “pertinent and precise” tax expert”.

Chambers Europe 2023 – Band 3, Real estate tax section – Emmanuel Galifer regularly advises on the tax aspects of real estate acquisitions as well as property investments and cross-border portfolios.“Emmanuel is extremely reassuring in his tax and legal approach to complex cases. He is a remarkable negotiator.” “His main strengths are his responsiveness, efficiency and communication skills.” “He is proactive, very nice, precise and available.”

Chambers Europe 2022 – Band 3, Real estate tax section – Emmanuel Galifer regularly advises on the tax aspects of real estate acquisitions as well as property investments and cross-border portfolios. He is described by one client as being “reachable, responsive, precise and reassuring.”

Chambers Europe 2021 – Band 3, Real estate tax section – Emmanuel regularly advises on the tax aspects of real estate acquisitions as well as property investments and cross-border portfolios. One impressed client states that he is “attentive to the needs of clients yet innovative in his proposed solutions.“

Chambers & Partners 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020 ranked Emmanuel Galifer as a recognised practitioner in the tax section

About Emmanuel

His expertise in real estate tax matters allows him to assist French institutional investors as well as foreign investment funds, property developers and tenants. He also advises investors and listed and non-listed companies in their M&A operations. Emmanuel also assists managers and other individuals in their personal tax issues both nationally and internationally.

Emmanuel is a member of the Institut des Avocats Conseils Fiscaux (IACF), he is also a member of the International Fiscal Association (IFA) and of the CFE Tax Advisers Europe

The Legal 500 2023 says that “Emmanuel Galifer knows how to transmit his analyzes with great clarity. Emmanuel Galifer is a very accessible lawyer, relevant, serious and always available in case of urgent question. Strong sense of service. Reassures the customer by finding appropriate solutions. Availability. Responsiveness. Very pleasant. Optimized fees. Conclusion: the perfect combination.“

His partners and associates at Fairway say “his Southern origins enchant a more and more complex tax law”.

His clients rely on his expertise for:

– Real estate tax
– Corporate taxation (relating to listed and non-listed companies)
– Personal property taxation
– Employee savings plan
– Tax litigation

Before Fairway

Before joining Fairway, Emmanuel practiced in the tax department of the law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
He began his career at the law firm Shearman & Sterling where he spent 4 years before joining the firm Brandford-Griffith & Associés that he left in 2006 to join Willkie Farr & Gallagher.

Well before Fairway

– Postgraduate degree in Tax Law – University of Paris XII (1998)
– Postgraduate degree in Business Law – University of Montpellier I (1997)

After Fairway

Emmanuel will go hiking or gliding in the mountains to breathe some fresh air with his wife.