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.
26 July 2026
We are pleased to announce that Axtead has been ranked in the Chambers High Net Worth 2026 guide, in Private Wealth Law (France). A little over a year after the firm’s launch, this recognition rewards the groundwork laid in our very first months, when we submitted our candidacy to Chambers & Partners. We are especially […]
15 April 2026
In its April 2026 column, the Axtead team provides an overview of recent developments regarding the abuse of tax law and the prevention of tax fraud within the field of private client tax law. The column reviews several rulings concerning cash considerations (soulte) in contribution and capital reduction transactions. The Paris Administrative Court of Appeal […]
05 February 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 […]
29 January 2026
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 […]
15 January 2026
In its January 2026 column, the Axtead team provides an overview of recent developments regarding the abuse of tax law and the prevention of tax fraud within the field of private client tax law. The column highlights two opinions of the Abuse of Tax Law Committee (CADF) finding fictitiousness, on the one hand, in a […]
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.