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Raphaëlle Svara

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Raphaëlle Svara

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CMS
Villa des Cigognes
17 rue Louis Aureglia
BP 450
98012 Monaco Cedex
Monaco
Languages French, English, Portuguese, Italian

Raphaëlle Svara is a Partner at CMS Monaco. She is co-head of the Private Clients team and co-head of the Tax team.

She acts for natural persons, family offices, trusts and foreign private entities in general, advising and representing them before both civil and criminal courts in Monaco. She specialises in family law, private international law and estate planning and personal tax law.

Raphaëlle’s practice focuses on national and international divorces and successions, wealth planning in private international law matters, legal protection of adults and minors, patrimonial organization.

Her other area of expertise is private tax law, in which she supervises all the patrimonial tax issues.

Prior to joining the firm in 2016 she worked at law firms in Paris, São Paolo and Monaco, and at the UN.

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Up-and-coming partner Raphaëlle Svara focuses her practice on advising high net worth clients on estate planning, trusts and family law. An interviewee says: "She is very knowledgeable in this field. She has a good reputation."

Chambers & Partners 2021 : Private Wealth Law (Monaco)

Up-and-coming partner Raphaëlle Svara focuses her practice on advising high net worth clients on estate planning, trusts and family law. An interviewee says: "She is very knowledgeable in this field. She has a good reputation."

Chambers & Partners 2021 : Private Wealth Law (Monaco)

Memberships & Roles

  • STEP Organisation (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners)
  • IBA (International Bar Association)
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Publications

  • The Law Reviews: The Real Estate Investment Structure Taxation Review – Monaco Chapter (2021)
  • The Legal 500: Private Client Comparative Guide - Monaco Chapter (2017, 2019)
  • Monegasque Private International Law Code follows the path of the EU Succession Regulation: a path sprinkled with differences, Gazette du Palais (2017)
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Lectures list

  • 25th Private Client Conference, IBA Conference - London (March 2020)
  • The protection of vulnerable persons in Monaco, Presentation to Monaco’s Foreign Residents’ Club (CREM) (September 2019)
  • Tax issues in cross-border divorce proceedings under Monegasque law, STEP Europe 2019 Conference (June 2019)
  • Law No 1.448 of 28 June 2017 on private international law, Presentation to Monaco’s Foreign Residents’ Club (CREM) (March 2019)
  • The impact of the Monegasque Code on Private International Law on Estate-Planning, Keys issues and challenges, STEP Monaco Seminar (December 2017)
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Education

  • Certificate of International Wealth Management (AUREP) (2020)
  • Certificate in Foundations, Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) (2017)
  • Professional Postgraduate Diploma in Private Wealth Advising, Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) (2017)
  • Monaco Bar (2016)
  • Diploma in Brazilian Tax Law, Instituto Brasileiro de Estudos Tributários of São Paolo (2013)
  • Master's degree in Private Law, La Sorbonne (2013)
  • Master‘s degree in Business, Neoma Business School Reims (2013)
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02/12/2021
Mone­g­asque tax res­id­ence cer­ti­fic­ate: one year later, it's time to take...
The con­di­tions for ob­tain­ing a tax res­id­ence cer­ti­fic­ate were spe­cified by Sov­er­eign Or­din­ance N. 8.372 of Novem­ber 26th, 2020 amend­ing Sov­er­eign Or­din­ance N. 8.566.One year later, we pro­pose to take...
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02/11/2021
Minor chil­dren as share­hold­ers of a “so­ciété civile par­ticulière moné­gasque”
A “So­ciété civile par­ticulière moné­gasque” (Mone­g­asque private com­pany) is a very ef­fect­ive es­tate plan­ning tool and is widely used as such. When con­sid­er­ing the in­volve­ment of minor chil­dren...
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30/09/2021
The choice of the spe­cial rep­res­ent­at­ive in the con­text of a safe­guard...
Safe­guard of justice is a pro­tec­tion meas­ure for adults in­tro­duced by Law n°1.474 of 2 Ju­ly 2019, re­lat­ing to the safe­guard of justice, the fu­ture pro­tec­tion man­date, and the ex­er­cise of the activ­ity...
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26/01/2021
NEW MONE­G­ASQUE LAW STRENGTH­EN­ING THE FIGHT AGAINST MONEY LAUN­DER­ING, TER­ROR­IST...
The pur­pose of Law No. 1.503 of 23 Decem­ber 2020 is to strengthen the le­gis­lat­ive body in the Prin­cip­al­ity of Monaco with re­gard to the fight against money laun­der­ing, ter­ror­ist fin­an­cing and cor­rup­tion.Al­though...
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15/01/2021
Did you know that BREXIT may im­pact your re­lo­ca­tion in MONACO?
Since Decem­ber 31, 2020, the United King­dom is not part of the European Uni­on any­more.As a res­ult, as of Janu­ary 1, 2021, UK na­tion­als (Eng­lish, Scot­tish, Welsh, and North­ern Ir­ish) no longer be­ne­fit...
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23/12/2020
Res­id­ence cer­ti­fic­ate, tax dom­i­cile cer­ti­fic­ate, proof of usu­al res­id­ence...
The de­nom­in­a­tion, the ob­ten­tion and the pur­pose of these doc­u­ments are of­ten sub­ject to con­fu­sions.Sov­er­eign Or­din­ance No 8.372 of Novem­ber 26th, 2020 pub­lished in the Journ­al Of­fi­ciel of Monaco on Decem­ber...
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20/05/2020
COV­ID-19 | Con­fined in France: What con­sequences on a tax res­id­ence in...
Is a pro­longed stay in France dur­ing the health crisis likely to jeop­ard­ise a tax res­id­ence in Monaco? A re­cent re­lease from the French tax au­thor­it­ies, spe­cific­ally the De­part­ment of Non-Res­id­ents Tax­a­tion...
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08/05/2020
In­ter­na­tion­al Es­tate: How to plan
Or­gan­ising one's suc­ces­sion guar­an­tees, on the one hand, the ef­fi­cient trans­mis­sion of one's as­sets and, on the oth­er hand, the pre­ser­va­tion of the in­terests of one's re­l­at­ives as de­sired by the test­at­or.However...
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04/05/2020
End of lock­down in Monaco: our of­fices will re­open on 11 May
We are de­lighted to an­nounce the re­open­ing of our of­fices on 11 May.We will con­tin­ue to en­cour­age the hold­ing of re­mote meet­ings (by tele­phone or video­con­fer­ence), while of­fer­ing our cli­ents the pos­sib­il­ity...
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30/04/2020
COV­ID-19 | Meas­ures to pre­vent do­mest­ic vi­ol­ence dur­ing the crisis
Dur­ing this peri­od of lock­down and health crisis, the num­ber of cases of do­mest­ic vi­ol­ence has in­creased in many coun­tries.In Monaco, acts of vi­ol­ence and as­sault com­mit­ted spe­cific­ally in the fam­ily...
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21/04/2020
Re­cog­ni­tion of new forms of fam­ily life
Since 2010, the European Court of Hu­man Rights (ECHR) has ruled "that it is ar­ti­fi­cial to con­tin­ue to con­sider that un­like a het­ero­sexu­al couple, a ho­mo­sexu­al couple can­not have a "fam­ily life"". More...
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17/04/2020
COV­ID-19 and Ex­er­cise of par­ent­al re­sponsab­il­ity
The COV­ID-19 epi­dem­ic has led the Mone­g­asque au­thor­it­ies and those of the neigh­bour­ing coun­tries to take drastic health and leg­al meas­ures to slow down the spread of the dis­ease. These meas­ures in­clude...
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