INTERNATIONAL LAW FIRM • FRANCE • DUBAI • CANADA
INTERNATIONAL LAW FIRM • FRANCE • DUBAI • CANADA
The law firm for
international projects
The law firm for
international projects
The law firm for
international projects
Expats Law Firm advises businesses, groups, entrepreneurs, investors, executives and families who set up, work, invest or live across borders.
Setting up a subsidiary, incorporating a company in Dubai or elsewhere in the UAE, international expansion, expatriation, employee mobility or investing abroad: we coordinate the legal, tax, corporate, immigration and wealth aspects of your project.
Lawyers and legal professionals. An international strategy. End-to-end support.
TWO PATHWAYS. ONE INTERNATIONAL VISION.
Businesses and groups, entrepreneurs and families
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For Companies and Groups – International Development
Expats Law Firm supports companies and corporate groups with their international setup, expansion, and restructuring projects.
Setting up a subsidiary in Dubai or the UAE, reorganizing a group, expanding business into a new jurisdiction, or relocating executives and employees can simultaneously raise corporate law, international taxation, transfer pricing, permanent establishment, immigration, labor law, and compliance issues.
Our role is to ensure consistency across these various dimensions, from defining the structure to its implementation.
Discover how we support businesses
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TWO PATHWAYS. ONE INTERNATIONAL VISION.
Businesses and groups, entrepreneurs and families
I
II
→
I
For Companies and Groups – International Development
Expats Law Firm supports companies and corporate groups with their international setup, expansion, and restructuring projects.
Setting up a subsidiary in Dubai or the UAE, reorganizing a group, expanding business into a new jurisdiction, or relocating executives and employees can simultaneously raise corporate law, international taxation, transfer pricing, permanent establishment, immigration, labor law, and compliance issues.
Our role is to ensure consistency across these various dimensions, from defining the structure to its implementation.
Discover how we support businesses
→
TWO PATHWAYS. ONE INTERNATIONAL VISION.
Businesses and groups, entrepreneurs and families
I
II
→
I
For Companies and Groups – International Development
Expats Law Firm supports companies and corporate groups with their international setup, expansion, and restructuring projects.
Setting up a subsidiary in Dubai or the UAE, reorganizing a group, expanding business into a new jurisdiction, or relocating executives and employees can simultaneously raise corporate law, international taxation, transfer pricing, permanent establishment, immigration, labor law, and compliance issues.
Our role is to ensure consistency across these various dimensions, from defining the structure to its implementation.
Discover how we support businesses
→
OUR PRACTICE AREAS
One firm.
One firm.
Expats Law Firm practises directly in three legal environments and advises on projects involving several jurisdictions.
Expats Law Firm practises directly in three legal environments and advises on projects involving several jurisdictions.
Where other countries are involved, the firm works, where necessary, with the relevant local professionals while keeping an overall view of the project.
Where other countries are involved, the firm works, where necessary, with the relevant local professionals while keeping an overall view of the project.
Paris Bar – French law & international tax
Admitted to the Paris Bar, the firm advises clients on the French consequences of their international operations.
Our practice includes taxation of non-residents, exit tax, tax treaties, structuring international activities and maintaining interests in France.
Legal Counsel – United Arab Emirates – Set-up, companies & operations in the UAE
Registered as Legal Counsel in the United Arab Emirates and present in Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah, the firm supports businesses, entrepreneurs and investors with their projects in the UAE.
Our practice areas include setting up companies and subsidiaries, free zones and mainland, restructuring, contracts, tax, compliance and international mobility.
Quebec Bar – Canadian law & international mobility
As a member of the Quebec Bar, the firm practises Canadian tax law, business law and immigration.
In particular, we advise clients whose business or personal circumstances involve Canada and other jurisdictions at the same time.
9+
More than 9 years of experience in international practice
Professional experience built on situations where several countries, several legal systems and several economic or financial interests need to be analysed together.
Paris Bar – French law & international tax
Admitted to the Paris Bar, the firm advises clients on the French consequences of their international operations.
Our practice includes taxation of non-residents, exit tax, tax treaties, structuring international activities and maintaining interests in France.
Legal Counsel – United Arab Emirates – Set-up, companies & operations in the UAE
Registered as Legal Counsel in the United Arab Emirates and present in Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah, the firm supports businesses, entrepreneurs and investors with their projects in the UAE.
Our practice areas include setting up companies and subsidiaries, free zones and mainland, restructuring, contracts, tax, compliance and international mobility.
Quebec Bar – Canadian law & international mobility
As a member of the Quebec Bar, the firm practises Canadian tax law, business law and immigration.
In particular, we advise clients whose business or personal circumstances involve Canada and other jurisdictions at the same time.
9+
More than 9 years of experience in international practice
Professional experience built on situations where several countries, several legal systems and several economic or financial interests need to be analysed together.
OUR PRACTICE AREAS
One firm.
One firm.
Seven practices. One international vision.
Seven practices. One international vision.
International tax
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Tax residency, exit tax, tax treaties, non-residents, tax audits and disputes, permanent establishment, substance, transfer pricing and international flows.
Companies, international expansion & development
Subsidiaries, holding companies, companies in France, Canada and the UAE, free zone or mainland, governance, restructuring, shareholding, compliance, sale and liquidation.
International employment law & mobility
Expatriation and secondment contracts, intragroup mobility, expatriate executives, international employees, staff secondment, local contracts and repatriation.
International contracts & intragroup agreements
Service agreements, management, distribution, licensing, subcontracting, staff secondment, parent-subsidiary relationships and documentation of flows.
Immigration & international mobility
Visas, work and study permits, permanent residence, Golden Visa, mobility of entrepreneurs, business owners, employees, spouses and children.
International real estate & investments
Acquisitions in France, Canada and the UAE, freehold, SPA, SCI, holding property through a company, financing and international real estate tax.
Wealth, estate planning & international succession
Assets spread across several countries, UAE wills, international successions, business succession, matrimonial property regimes and family protection.
International tax
Learn more
Tax residency, exit tax, tax treaties, non-residents, tax audits and disputes, permanent establishment, substance, transfer pricing and international flows.
Companies, international expansion & development
Subsidiaries, holding companies, companies in France, Canada and the UAE, free zone or mainland, governance, restructuring, shareholding, compliance, sale and liquidation.
International employment law & mobility
Expatriation and secondment contracts, intragroup mobility, expatriate executives, international employees, staff secondment, local contracts and repatriation.
International contracts & intragroup agreements
Service agreements, management, distribution, licensing, subcontracting, staff secondment, parent-subsidiary relationships and documentation of flows.
Immigration & international mobility
Visas, work and study permits, permanent residence, Golden Visa, mobility of entrepreneurs, business owners, employees, spouses and children.
International real estate & investments
Acquisitions in France, Canada and the UAE, freehold, SPA, SCI, holding property through a company, financing and international real estate tax.
Wealth, estate planning & international succession
Assets spread across several countries, UAE wills, international successions, business succession, matrimonial property regimes and family protection.
Companies, international expansion & development
Subsidiaries, holding companies, companies in France, Canada and the UAE, free zone or mainland, governance, restructuring, shareholding, compliance, sale and liquidation.
International employment law & mobility
Expatriation and secondment contracts, intragroup mobility, expatriate executives, international employees, staff secondment, local contracts and repatriation.
International contracts & intragroup agreements
Service agreements, management, distribution, licensing, subcontracting, staff secondment, parent-subsidiary relationships and documentation of flows.
Immigration & international mobility
Visas, work and study permits, permanent residence, Golden Visa, mobility of entrepreneurs, business owners, employees, spouses and children.
International real estate & investments
Acquisitions in France, Canada and the UAE, freehold, SPA, SCI, holding property through a company, financing and international real estate tax.
Wealth, estate planning & international succession
Assets spread across several countries, UAE wills, international successions, business succession, matrimonial property regimes and family protection.
Our method
From strategy to execution, from home country to host country
01 Understand
Identify the countries, people, companies, assets and issues involved in the project.
01 Understand
Identify the countries, people, companies, assets and issues involved in the project.
02 Structure
Determine the appropriate legal, tax and operational organisation, as well as the applicable law.
02 Structure
Determine the appropriate legal, tax and operational organisation, as well as the applicable law.
03 Implement
Company formation, contracts, legal opinions, formalities, immigration and tax or regulatory procedures.
03 Implement
Company formation, contracts, legal opinions, formalities, immigration and tax or regulatory procedures.
04 Support
Monitor the client's structure and situation as their business, mobility or investments evolve.
04 Support
Monitor the client's structure and situation as their business, mobility or investments evolve.
Our method
From strategy to execution, from home country to host country
01 Understand
Identify the countries, people, companies, assets and issues involved in the project.
02 Structure
Determine the appropriate legal, tax and operational organisation, as well as the applicable law.
03 Implement
Company formation, contracts, legal opinions, formalities, immigration and tax or regulatory procedures.
04 Support
Monitor the client's structure and situation as their business, mobility or investments evolve.
EXPATS LAW FIRM
The law of your international
life
The law of your international life
The law of your international
life
Founded in 2019 by Justine Basilio, a lawyer admitted to the Paris Bar, a member of the Quebec Bar and registered as Legal Counsel in the United Arab Emirates, Expats Law Firm grew out of its founder's own expatriation and the issues faced by her expatriate clients.
The firm advises a business setting up a subsidiary abroad just as readily as an executive organising their relocation, an entrepreneur growing a business across several countries or a family whose assets and interests extend across borders.
Our approach rests on a simple idea: an international situation must be looked at as a whole, not country by country or one area of law at a time.
LEGAL INSIGHTS AND ANALYSIS
International tax, expatriation and cross-border transactions
International tax, expatriation and cross-border transactions
Exit tax: fact and fiction about property-rich companies
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France–UAE tax treaty: what are the implications for UAE residents?
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Conseil d’État ruling of 20 March 2023: what are the consequences for French expatriates?
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Does your project
extend
extend
across borders?
across borders?
Setting up a subsidiary, incorporating a company in Dubai or elsewhere in the UAE, international expansion, expatriation, investment or family relocation: our firm analyses the different aspects of your project and supports you in putting them into practice.
Does your project
extend
across borders?
Setting up a subsidiary, incorporating a company in Dubai or elsewhere in the UAE, international expansion, expatriation, investment or family relocation: our firm analyses the different aspects of your project and supports you in putting them into practice.
EXPATS LAW FIRM
Practice areas
EXPATS LAW FIRM
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Daftime and Expat living real estate
© 2026 Expats Law Firm - All rights reserved
EXPATS LAW FIRM
Practice areas
EXPATS LAW FIRM
Contact
In collaboration with
Daftime and Expat living real estate
© 2026 Expats Law Firm - All rights reserved
EXPATS LAW FIRM
Practice areas
EXPATS LAW FIRM
Contact
In collaboration with
Daftime and Expat living real estate
© 2026 Expats Law Firm - All rights reserved