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Raphaëlle Svara

Avocat Associé | Partner

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Raphaëlle Svara

Avocat Associé | Partner

Contact
T 00377 97 98 42 24
F 00377 97 98 42 25
CMS
Villa des Cigognes
17 rue Louis Aureglia
BP 450
98012 Monaco Cedex
Monaco
Languages French, English, Portuguese, Italian

Raphaëlle Svara is a Partner in the Private Clients team.

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

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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Education

  • 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 Business, Neoma Business School Reims (2013)
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Memberships

  • STEP Organisation (Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners)
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Publications

  • The Legal 500: Private Client Comparative Guide - Monaco Chapter (2019)
  • The Legal 500: Private Client Comparative Guide - Monaco Chapter (2017)
  • "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 (upcoming - March 2020)
  • "Introduction to European Family Law Conference", IAFL Conference - Kiev (upcoming - 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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Expertise

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20/05/2020
COV­ID-19 | Con­fined in France: What con­sequences on a tax res­id­ence in...
A re­cent re­lease from the French tax au­thor­it­ies, spe­cific­ally the De­part­ment of Non-Res­id­ents Tax­a­tion ex­am­ines the case of per­sons dom­i­ciled out­side of France who are pre­ven­ted (or were pre­ven­ted) from re­turn­ing home, and there­fore would stay or would h
Publication Tax
08/05/2020
In­ter­na­tion­al Es­tate: How to plan
In an in­ter­na­tion­al con­text, the set­tle­ment of an es­tate can be com­plex. Wheth­er in civil or tax mat­ters, the plan­ning of an es­tate re­quires a great deal of vi­gil­ance. Find out more.
Publication Trust & Estates
01/04/2020
COV­ID-19 | New dates for sub­mit­ting tax re­turns in France
Mone­g­asque res­id­ents: The French Gov­ern­ment an­nounced on Tues­day 31 March 2020 a new ex­cep­tion­al tax meas­ure fol­low­ing the dif­fi­culties re­lated to COV­ID-19. This new meas­ure con­cerns in­di­vidu­als sub­ject to French in­come tax and French real es­tate wealth t
Publication Private Clients
27/03/2020
Real es­tate wealth tax (RE­WT)
Al­though the real es­tate wealth tax is a French tax, it may be pay­able by any per­son resid­ing in Monaco and own­er in France of one or more prop­er­ties held dir­ectly or through an en­tity.
Publication Private Clients
27 November 2019
CMS Pasquier Ciulla Mar­quet & Pas­tor signs Monaco’s Na­tion­al En­ergy Trans­ition...
CMS Pasquier Ciulla Mar­quet & Pas­tor signs Monaco’s Na­tion­al En­ergy Trans­ition Pact
Press release
14/10/2019
CMS Pasquier Ciulla Mar­quet & Pas­tor moves to the “Villa des Cigognes”
CMS Monaco | New ad­dress from 28 Oc­to­ber 2019
Press release Banking & Finance
30 September 2019
Private Cli­ents & Tax
What are the main tax is­sues raised by private cli­ents in Monaco ?
Publication Tax
04 July 2019
STEP Europe Con­fer­ence in Cyprus
News Private Clients
02 July 2019
The pro­tec­tion of vul­ner­able adults in Monaco
Nowadays, the is­sue of the leg­al pro­tec­tion of vul­ner­able adults sig­ni­fic­antly af­fects the lives of an in­creas­ing num­ber of people in a po­s­i­tion of fra­gil­ity, their fam­il­ies and all of the pro­fes­sion­als work­ing in the field.
Publication Private Clients
16/05/2018
The pro­vi­sions of the Code of Private In­ter­na­tion­al Law ap­ply im­me­di­ately
The Mone­g­asque Code of Private In­ter­na­tion­al Law, as set down by Act n°1448 of 28 June 2017, has been in force in the Prin­cip­al­ity’s leg­al sys­tem since 8 Ju­ly 2017. While the code en­tails some ma­jor in­nov­a­tions, the law which in­tro­duced it in­cludes no tra
Publication Private Clients
19 December 2017
Leg­al 500 Private Cli­ent Coun­try Com­par­at­ive Guide
Publication Private Clients
28 November 2017
Mone­g­asque In­ter­na­tion­al Private Law Code fol­lows the path of the EU Suc­ces­sion...
Publication Private Clients