Presentation of our firm by Xavier de Sarrau
In this video, Xavier de Sarrau introduces the firm Gordon S. Blair.
A benchmark firm in Monaco…
Gordon S. Blair is an independent legal and tax consulting firm, established in Monaco in 1920.
Originally created by British lawyers to support their clients in their mobility projects in Monaco and the region, the firm has acquired unique know-how in managing the civil and tax law implications related to changes in their lives and in their legal environment.
Opening up to new clientele and sustained growth in recent years have enabled Gordon S. Blair to become a benchmark firm in Monaco and the region.
…also present in Switzerland
Switzerland has unique know-how when it comes to asset management and wealth structuring. It is for this reason that Gordon S. Blair set up an office there in 2006. Focusing on wealth and asset ownership and conveyance issues, the Geneva team allows the firm’s clients to access the opportunities offered by the Swiss regulatory framework.
Our international clientele
We work with an international clientele of private individuals, wealthy families, and family groups that we support on all of their projects.
We also advise a number of international groups, particularly banking groups, on their activities in Monaco.
Our know-how is based on long experience handling complex matters and scenarios, which has given our teams mastery of the most sophisticated legal techniques and a keen sense of innovation.
In addition, due to the international nature of the matters we handle for our clients, we work closely with a network of professionals in major jurisdictions.
We can thus define and manage complex multi-country engagements and offer a truly global service to our clients.
A team of professionals structured around client-focused practices
Our team is made up of around fifty multilingual lawyers and tax specialists, with experience in multiple jurisdictions and environments.
We attach great importance to subject-matter expertise, experience, and teamwork. This is why we have organized our firm around client-focused practices, responding as closely as possible to their needs.
Our practices :
- Relocation to Monaco
- International Mobility
- Inheritance and Estate Planning
- Tax
- Family Organizations and Governance Mechanisms
- Business Law
- Yachts, Aircraft and Trophy Assets
- Employment Law
- Banking and Asset Management
- Real Estate
- Risk and Compliance
We also have a specialized desk to support our Eastern Europe Clientele
In Monaco for more than one century.
1920
British solicitors Spencer Batchelor, Charles Humphrey Woolrych and Archibald Williams joined together to found the Batchelor, Woolrych & Williams law firm in the Principality of Monaco. Given the appeal of Monaco and the French Riviera on the wealthy British people, the law firm would offer support and counseling services in civil law involvements and wealth management issues due to a lifestyle change and a different legal framework.
1920
British solicitors Spencer Batchelor, Charles Humphrey Woolrych and Archibald Williams joined together to found the Batchelor, Woolrych & Williams law firm in the Principality of Monaco. Given the appeal of Monaco and the French Riviera on the wealthy British people, the law firm would offer support and counseling services in civil law involvements and wealth management issues due to a lifestyle change and a different legal framework.
1949
British solicitor Gordon Stanley Blair moved to Monaco and joined the law firm. In the following years, the firm will be named Gordon S. Blair.
1949
British solicitor Gordon Stanley Blair moved to Monaco and joined the law firm. In the following years, the firm will be named Gordon S. Blair.
1988
The firm is acquired by Ernst & Young.
1988
The firm is acquired by Ernst & Young.
2007
Xavier de Sarrau acquired Gordon S. Blair. Under his leading, the law firm has experienced a new impulse and it has become a benchmark in the law sector in Monaco.
2007
Xavier de Sarrau acquired Gordon S. Blair. Under his leading, the law firm has experienced a new impulse and it has become a benchmark in the law sector in Monaco.
Today
The firm is located in Monaco and Switzerland and counts 6 partners and 60 employees.
Today
The firm is located in Monaco and Switzerland and counts 6 partners and 60 employees.
MonacoAn exceptional environment for family’s affairs management
An independent sovereign state in the heart of Europe, Monaco offers an exceptional living environment and an extremely attractive legal and tax environment for establishing residence and doing business.
This attractiveness is the result of remarkable political, legal and fiscal stability.
A major player in the North Mediterranean labor market area, appreciated for its climate, infrastructure, transport, security, and education and health systems, Monaco has based its model on a sound balanced fiscal policy, which allows to offer numerous tax advantages to residents.
Monaco has signed a number of conventions or agreements that provide the Principality recognition from the international community and guarantee a protective framework for Monegasque residents and companies.
Finally, Monaco is an international economic and financial center, endowed with a virtuous ecosystem, which fosters the creation and development of entrepreneurial projects and the management of the most sophisticated family and estate arrangements.
With a resident population of approximately 39,000 people, representing more than 120 different nationalities, the Principality is a place of encounters and exchanges. Emblematic sporting and cultural events give this small country an exceptional reputation.
Monaco is also the preferred setting for many cinematographic works, inspired by the ever-present memory of Princess Grace of Monaco, to whom our firm has sought to pay homage by creating an iconography inspired by the great classics of international cinema.
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