ALEXANDRA C. VERGES
Lawyer at the Bar in Paris
Founder & Managing Director
Many years of professional practice at International/French Lawyers and Audit Groups.
Direct member of the International Fiscal Association – IFA France, in Andorra.
Member of IFA France.
Associate Member of the American Bar Association – ABA Section of International Law (International Tax Committee, International Private Cient Committee, Europe Committee, Cross-Border Real Estate Practice Committee, International M & A Joint Venture Committee).
Member of the Andorran Employers Confederation - CEA.
Delegate in Andorra of the Assocation for the Promotion of the Practice of Lawyers Abroad - APPEAL-E.
Former Member of the Company of Financial Counsels and Experts – CCEF.
Former Member of the "Electronic Commerce Taxation" Working Group of the Fiscal Committee of the French Employers National Center - MEDEF.
Master's degree in Business Law, postgraduate diploma in international tax law | Chartered Accountant | training workshops on English maritime law and yachting matters.
Alexandra C. Verges has acquired a great experience with clients of international size in many diversified fields such as:
Private Client Services, Yachting, Shipping, Entertainment Business, Film Production, Artistic Production, Audiovisual, Multimedia, High-Tech, Real Estate, Optical fibers (manufacturing and distribution of fiber optic), Aeronautics, Banking, Advertising, International Strategy & Financial Consultancy, Medical Equipment Distribution, Luxury Packaging, etc..
Former International Legal and Tax Advisor at ARTHUR ANDERSEN INTERNATIONAL and KPMG FIDAL PARIS, Alexandra C. Verges founded her own International Law Office in Paris, Law Offices of A. C. VERGES and has built up a great deal of expertise in the highly specialised fields of:
- International Maritime Consulting, ie, assisting owners & future owners in the building, buying, chartering or selling of their commercial or pleasure Megayacht/Yacht (international tax, legal, maritime, business, financial & technical issues),
- International Tax & Legal Strategy for businesses and individuals (HNWI, investors,athletes, etc..) including transfer of residence and/or citizenship through investments and other cross-border operations,
- E-commerce taxation, first professional to speak and publish on the matter.
Law Offices of A. C. VERGES has entered into close professional relationships with selected professionals such as lawyers, chartered accountants, maritime experts, property experts and financial advisers located internationally.
In 2003 and 2004, Alexandra Verges opened two offices in Spain under the name Verges & Co. International Law Office (Málaga and Marbella). These offices were subsequently transferred to Switzerland and in 2022 Verges & Co. International Law Office SL was opened in the Principality of Andorra.
Alexandra C. Verges presented many seminars such as:
- "YACHTS! Construction, achat, charter, vente (questions clés, pièges à éviter, etc..): la mission du représentant de l'armateur " (October 2015, April 2016 & March 2022 | Geneva Conferences and Private Seminars, Verges & Co. International Law Office),
"Les Régimes Français du Yacht Commercial, exonérations fiscales et autres avantages?" (May - October 2009 | Paris Private Seminars, Verges & Co. International Law Office and Haussmann Patrimoine),
- "Commercial Yachts in France, tax exemptions and other incentives?" (June & November 2009 | London Private Seminars, Verges & Co. International Law Office and Simmons Gainsford Group),
- "What's new about the Commercial Yachts in France?" (March 2009 | International Superyacht Symposium, Cruise Shipping Miami 2009, Miami Beach Convention Center),
- "So you want to build a yacht?” (2004 - 2008 | London & Paris Private Seminars),
- "Telecommunications and Internet Services Taxation" (August, 1996 | IFA, Dijon – France, Pre Congress, first worldwide congress on this matter & other various seminars on e-commerce taxation: 1997 with the CNPF; 1998/1999 with the French Center of Foreign Commerce - CFCE, etc..),
- "Stratégie Fiscale: la Belgique n'est plus seulement le pays des centres de coordinations" (Belgian Embassy & Belgo-Luxembourg Chamber of Commerce, chaired by the Head of Cabinet of the Belgian Minister of Finance),
- "Investing abroad: which legal, tax and financial strategies" (L’ENTREPRISE, the COFACE & the CIC Bank).
Alexandra C. Verges also wrote many publications like:
- "So you want to build a yacht?" Interview with Alexandra Verges published in "Essential Magazine",
- "Les Yachts Commerciaux, avantages pour les armateurs, une solution pour résister à la crise?" published in AGEFI Luxembourg,
- "Electronic Commerce: a taxation to think up" published in Les Echos and La Gazette du Palais,
- "France: Selling to the U.S.A. via the Internet" published in Tax Planning e-commerce, BNA International Inc, Vol. 1, Nr 1 and also published in "Les Cahiers du CFCE" under the title: "Etats-Unis: Commerce Electronique, une fiscalité à inventer",
- "The Belgian option" published in DROIT ET PATRIMOINE.