Mai 2024
Notaries’ offices that have not had time to build up a clientele for estate planning matters and are therefore highly exposed to the real estate market are playing for their very survival. For others, major adjustments are still needed to get through this crisis, the worst in three decades. Pascal JULIEN SAINT-AMAND, notaire in Paris and Chairman of the Althémis Group, comments in Droit & Patrimoine magazine: “For us, current real estate represents around 50% of our business, which is significantly lower than the average for the profession. We have developed a business transfer activity that is currently holding up very well.”
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Althémis Paris
Pascal JULIEN SAINT-AMAND is a partner Civil Law notary in Paris and Chairman of the Althémis Group.
Doctor of French and European law, after a career as a tax lawyer, he joined in 1993 the notarial profession to which he had a long family tradition. He has developed a high level expertise in wealth management, and in particular in estate planning for company directors.
He writes on these subjects in numerous books published by Éditions Francis Lefebvre: Pactes d’actionnaires et engagements Dutreil, Mémentos Patrimoine et Droit de la Famille, Les holdings, Stock-options et attributions gratuites d’actions.
He is a lecturer at Paris Dauphine University and the ESCP Business School. He is a member of the FNDP legal committee.
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