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The Axtead team extends its warmest wishes for 2026!
29 December 2025
We wish you a serene year ahead, filled with happiness, new projects, and success, within an increasingly demanding tax and wealth-planning environment.
2025 held its share of surprises, often in the most unexpected places. While profound institutional and tax upheavals had been predicted, the year ultimately followed a path of relative continuity from 2024: a relative—yet welcome—stability in existing tax frameworks, alongside a more debatable steady stream of reform announcements, which proved to be as creative as they were uncertain.
This sense of “relativity” also shaped Axtead’s own journey. In early 2025, our entire team—partners and associates—came together with a shared resolve: to continue our practice within a new framework, remaining true to our core values and our commitment to rigor, independence, and expertise.
In 2026, we will continue to advise executives, managers, and private clients on the structuring, succession, and protection of their wealth. Our approach remains rooted in risk anticipation, the economic coherence of every transaction, and a mastery of complex tax regulations.
If there is one lesson to be learned from the unpredictability of 2025, it is that 2026 may well be a year of movement and significant reform.
Regardless, the entire Axtead team stands ready to support you with excellence, commitment, and pragmatism, ensuring that 2026 is a year of achievement.
Publication of the Chambers and Partners Rankings – France 2026
We are pleased to announce the recognition of Arnaud Tailfer, founding partner of Axtead, by Chambers and Partners as Up and Coming. This distinction highlights a recognised expertise in tax litigation, both for corporates and private individuals. It reflects a practice built on anticipation, rigour and the pursuit of effective solutions. “Arnaud Tailfer won’t go […]
Axtead has been awarded a Special Mention by the jury of the 2026 Sommet du Droit, in the category Wealth Taxation – Regularisation and Litigation. This distinction recognises the emergence of Axtead, a young firm led by a team of experienced lawyers, as well as the clear and demanding vision guiding its development. This recognition […]
We wish you a serene year ahead, filled with happiness, new projects, and success, within an increasingly demanding tax and wealth-planning environment.
In its October 2025 column, the Axtead team provides an in-depth overview of recent developments regarding the abuse of tax law and the prevention of tax fraud within the field of private client tax law.
On November 6, 2025, Axtead celebrates its inauguration at the Musée National Jean-Jacques Henner. Within this timeless setting—a nineteenth-century hôtel particulier—we invite you to an encounter between painting, contemporary creation, and music.