Emmanuel Jacques Almosnino Mr. Emmanuel Jacques, managing partner, grew up in Paris, France where he attended the same private school throughout his childhood and teenage years and graduated with a baccalaureate of sciences and mathematics. Mr. Jacques completed four years of coursework in two years and, at the age of 23, became the youngest attorney in France. After graduation with a Phd and the Paris bar exam, he became the director of cabinet of the Paris managing director of the Paris Chamber of Commerce (4.000 employees), he needed to fulfill his military obligation and in 1992, so he resigned from his cabinet post and served as a civil soldier in Mexico, where he helped French companies settle into the country. He returned to France 18 months later and, in 1994, became a junior partner in a law firm in Paris. One year later, at 27 years old, he opened his own practice. As an attorney, Mr. Jacques realized that every decision had financial repercussions and, by the 21st century, the impact of those decisions would be felt worldwide. So he began to study Management at HEC Paris, the highest-ranked business schools for MBAs in Europe. He later studied International Relations and Diplomacy at CEDS, then returned to HEC Paris to study Corporate Finance. During his studies, he still continued to practice law as he ran his own firm. He later became partner of a French law firm, then Of Counsel with a U.S firm based in Paris. In 1998, he became President of the French-Icelandic Chamber of Commerce. He was re-elected to that post three times and served in that capacity until 2009. At the same time, he became Vice President of the parent organization of the 105 French Chambers of Commerce abroad and one of the special advisers of the French government for trade with the Nordic countries. It was in 1993 that Mr. Jacques discovered St. Barth. He fell in love with the island’s beauty and came back to the island very often. In 1996, he pleaded his first cases regarding St. Barth and started advising foreign investors. As his clientele began to grow, he opened a second office in St. Barth in 2005 and later relocated from Paris. In 2013, the firm negotiated and structured the purchases of real property in the amounts of $10 million and $20 million. That same year, the firm negotiated a financing of $ 20 million and partnered with firms in New York, Paris and Luxembourg in the structuring of $40 million of financing for the construction of a new luxury hotel. The firm also advised a global bank regarding the regulation for banking and investment in Saint Barth, Guadeloupe and Martinique jurisdictions. Some of the cases the firm has won last year include a tax case involving the repayment of €518,000 of state taxes regarding a capital gains tax applied to a real estate transaction; the renewal of commercial leases in Paris’ “Golden Triangle”; and the voiding of the urban planning map of St. Barth. Mr. Jacques and his firm have built a reputation for excellence throughout the international community. For over 20 years, he has been catering to his clients needs in Saint Barths. His strategic vision, his great experience in international relations and diplomacy, and his unparalleled passion for his clients and his work, all reassure clients who live far away from the Saint Barth jurisdiction to trust him with their foreign investments and business.
Posted on: Sun, 18 May 2014 22:19:26 +0000