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Jérôme Bogaert

Founder Associate

Phone : +33 9 75 41 36 55

Email : jerome.bogaert@harmony-avocats.com

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Commercial law and insolvency law

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Employment law

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Jérôme Bogaert

Expertise

A founding partner of HARMONY, Jérôme Bogaert has over 20 years experience as a tax lawyer, working particularly on international tax matters and mainly in English. Jérôme has a strong expertise in the following fields:

  • Supporting businesses of all sizes – from international groups to small and mid-cap companies – to define and implement their taxation policies (monitoring the ETR, guiding tax-related cash flows, overseeing tax audits, managing tax risks, etc.
  • Supporting companies in their organic and external growth operations in France and internationally (international contracts, acquisitions, disposals, restructurings, etc.)
  • Advising on company formation and takeovers
  • Assisting in negotiations with tax authorities during and/or after tax audits, or when applying for rulings.

 

Professional experience

  • One year secondment as Group Tax Director at VEOLIA ENVIRONNEMENT (6 months in 2003) and Tax Director France at ALSTOM (6 months in 1999/2000)
  • Since March 2003: Independent legal counsel, and then founding partner of HARMONY
  • September 2005 – February 2013: Partner, Head of Tax at French law firm GT Société d’Avocats
  • 2000 – 2005: Tax lawyer in the Corporate National and International Tax department at ERNST & YOUNG Société d’Avocats.
  • 1994 – 2000: Tax lawyer in the Corporate Tax department at TAJ, a member of the DELOITTE network

 

Professional-body activities

  • Member of DFCG (Association of Financial and Management Control Directors) since 2008
  • DFCG representative at the International Taxation Committee of IAFEI (International Association of Financial Executive Institutes)
  • International Tax trainer at DFCG and in-house for multinationals
  • Member of key HEC Alumni finance, entrepreneurship, law and business clubs
  • Tax News speaker at the HEC Alumni entrepreneurship club

 

Publications

  • Regular contributor on international taxation in DFCG’s Finance & Gestion financial management journal

 

Education

1991: HEC Grande Ecole

1991: DESS de Fiscalité Internationale de Paris XI (international taxation honours degree)

1993: Masters Degree in Business Law, Paris II

Admitted to the bar in Hauts-de-Seine and then Paris, April 1996

 

Languages

English: conversational for 20 years

German: fluent