Retail & FMCG

Our clients include food & beverage, home appliance & electronics, cosmetics, clothing and other consumer goods manufacturers and distributors, as well retailers.

We can put up a team of lawyers combining practical experience and expertise in tax, corporate, commercial, antitrust, labor, and intellectual property laws to effectively advise our FMCG and retail clients, as follows:

M&A transactions (e.g., drafting and negotiating shareholders’ and share purchase agreements, project financing and structuring)
Tax and legal due diligences (on vendors and buyers’ side), including in real estate.
Contracts negotiations and drafting (advertising, marketing, distribution, franchise, licensing and wholesale/retail, leasing of manufacturing and retail facilities)
Intellectual Property rights protection
Trade restrictions & commercial compliance (product labelling, restrictions on importation and distribution, trading, advertising, and promotion of products)
Tax optimization, transfer pricing and customs
Employment & HR (e.g., hiring of employees, defining conditions of work, design employment structures, incentive programs (e.g., employee shareholding plans)).

Podcasts

Perspectives Russes

Welcome to "Perspectives Russie", the podcasts of Lex Evolution, dedicated to decision-makers in Russian business law: executives, financial directors, tax and legal directors. Hosted by Dominique Tissot, founding partner of Lex Evolution and French Foreign Trade Advisor for Russia, these podcasts shed light on important legal and tax issues and the main strategic issues of the moment. These podcasts are available on our LinkedIn Corporate page, as well as on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Anchor.

Clients’ feedback

Dominique Tissot advises on corporate tax, transfer pricing and international tax structuring. He is a French-qualified lawyer and a native French speaker, making him well placed to advise French clients operating in Russia.

Chambers Global

Fantastic specialist on cross-border transactions

Chambers Europe

Highly recommended for work in the tax and energy industries

Legal500

Moscow-based Dominique Tissot is a key contact for Russian clients looking to invest in France, or French clients doing business in Russia. He is admitted to practice in France and is on the board of the French Chamber of Commerce in Russia.

Chambers Global

Proactive, available and client-oriented

Chambers Europe

Moscow-based French-qualified tax lawyer Dominique Tissot also handles project finance work. He has significant knowledge of the energy and natural resources sector, notably across Russia, Germany and Eastern Europe. He speaks English, French and Russian.

Chambers Global