A specialist in French and international corporate tax law, Emmanuel Dinh leads a dual career as a lawyer and university professor.
Denis Fontaine-Besset, a former student of HEC, has had an exceptional career as a financier and lawyer over four decades. With his first employer, the Oil civil contracting firm ETPM, he quickly became a specialist in the taxation of joint venture companies. He then worked for nine years at Arthur Andersen, which he loved for being “collegial”, and then at Banque Worms, which had just been nationalised and was undergoing a strategic review. He then joined Crédit Commercial de France, which became HSBC France, where he demonstrated his mastery of the structuring of major investments, complex tailor-made financing and leasing operations by working with players in the shipping industry and leading multinationals. His experience as a lawyer led him to Orrick Rambaud Martel, where he continued to exercise his talents in the field of maritime and aeronautical financing. In 2010, Hervé-Antoine Couderc invited him to join Sarrau Thomas Couderc, which became STC Partners. In April 2023, he became a partner at Couderc, Dinh et Associés.
Trained within the corporate M&A and private equity teams of leading French and Anglo-Saxon business law firms, Arthur Anton supports both investment funds and company directors and managers.
Having acquired academic and professional experience in the UK and Luxembourg, Arnauld has developed extensive expertise in structuring international transactions, such as cross-border financing and tax management of multinational groups.
He deals with one-off or daily corporate tax issues, so as to reconcile tax, legal, financial or wealth transfer concerns.
He also assists companies in the context of accounting audits and tax audits and, if applicable, before all the courts that may be concerned.