Auriga Legal Services offers its clientele of private individuals and professionals the expertise and recognized practical skills in the following fields of intervention: Legal and business consulting, international Tax Law, Banking and Financial Regulation, Anti-Money Laundering, Combating the Financing of Terrorism and Combating Corruption and data protection.
Our team has more than 30 years of unique experience both in a Monegasque and international context.
Find out about our fields of intervention below.
Legal and business consulting
Auriga Legal Services offers the following services including:
- Assistance and advice in the relocation of individuals in Monaco
- Assistance and advice in applying for authorisation to pursue an economic or commercial activity in Monaco
- Assistance and advice in wealth engineering (acquisition and holding of real estate, estate planning, etc.)
- Assistance and advice in optimizing estate transfer taxes
- Assistance and advice in the creation of legal entities under Monegasque law (SAM, SARL, Société Civile)
- Assistance and advice on commercial leases
- Assistance and advice on all matters relating to Monegasque law, private international law or administrative procedure.
International Tax Law
Auriga Legal Services offers the following services including:
- Assistance and advice in the relocation of individuals in Monaco
- Assistance and advice in applying for authorisation to pursue an economic or commercial activity in Monaco
- Assistance and advice in wealth engineering (acquisition and holding of real estate, estate planning, etc.)
- Assistance and advice in optimizing estate transfer taxes
- Assistance and advice in the creation of legal entities under Monegasque law (SAM, SARL, Société Civile)
- Assistance and advice on commercial leases
- Assistance and advice on all matters relating to Monegasque law, private international law or administrative procedure.
Banking and Financial Regulation
Auriga Legal Services offers services in international tax matters such as:
- Assistance and advice in the implementation of obligations under the OECD Multilateral Convention on Mutual Administrative Assistance in Tax Matters and the Standard for the Automatic Exchange of Information on Financial Accounts in Tax Matters (SRC);
- Assistance and advice on all matters relating to tax information exchange agreements (TIEAs) and bilateral tax treaties for the avoidance of double taxation and the prevention of fiscal evasion or tax fraud (DTCs) signed by Monaco;
- Assistance and advice in personal and wealth tax matters (real estate, income, estate planning, French tax declarations, etc.)
- Fiscal consultations.
Anti-Money Laundering, Combating the Financing of Terrorism and Combating Corruption
Auriga Legal Services offers a wide range of services in banking and financial regulation:
- Assistance and advice in obtaining the necessary approvals to carry on the business of a credit institution from the competent French and Monegasque authorities;
- Assistance and advice on prudential regulations in force in the banking sector (Order of 3 November 2014 on the internal control of companies in the banking, payment services and investment services sector subject to supervision by the Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution…)
- Assistance and advice in the creation of any financial activity subject to the provisions of the law n° 1.338 on financial activities;
- Assistance and advice in the creation of any mutual fund or investment fund subject to the provisions of law n° 1.339 relating to mutual funds and investment funds;
- Assistance and advice in the implementation of the provisions of Act 1.338 on financial activities and Act 1.339 on mutual funds and investment funds;
- Carrying out pre-audit missions to prepare for a possible CCAF audit;
- Assistance and advice in the exercise of Cross-Border financial activities to and from the Principality of Monaco.
Data Protection
Auriga Legal Services offers to accompany you in the implementation of your AML/CFT obligations:
- In the implementation of adapted internal organization measures:
- Drafting and updating of your internal procedures
- Assistance and advice in the implementation of your risk-based approach and the mapping of these risks
- Assistance and advice in the organization of the compliance and compliance function
- Organization of training and awareness sessions adapted to your specificities and needs
- Audit of your LAB device (KYC, constant vigilance…)
- In the implementation of your duty of constant vigilance:
- Personalized assistance and advice in setting up your operation monitoring tools
- Assistance and advice in the analysis of specific review reports to which complex or unusual transactions must be submitted
- As part of SICCFIN control procedures:
- Carrying out pre-audit missions to prepare you for a possible audit
- Assistance and advice in the various stages of the SICCFIN control procedure (discussion on the preliminary draft, draft report, etc.)
- Assistance and advice in administrative sanction proceedings
- In your reflections on the fight against money laundering, terrorist financing and corruption:
- Legal advice and monitoring