Marcon & Associés

Business and financial law from the Principality of Monaco, for an international clientele.

Marcon & Associés is a bespoke boutique law firm serving a select number of clients: established families, entrepreneurs, banks, financial institutions, and corporate groups. Their assets, operations, and decisions sit in several jurisdictions at once, and they need an entry point in Monaco that also understands what happens outside Monaco.

The firm

A boutique law firm, by design

The firm is deliberately small. Matters are handled by the partners who sign them. There is no bench of junior associates working a matter the partners have not read, and there is no standard document waiting to be filled in.

Authorized to practice in the Principality since 2013, Marcon & Associés advises on mergers and acquisitions, equity transactions, corporate structuring, and the regulatory framework that governs business in Monaco. Richard Marcon leads the firm’s M&A practice, buy-side and sell-side, from the identification of a target through post-transaction integration. Lionel Escaffre, partner since 2026, brings to every transaction the discipline of financial regulation, valuation, and governance.

Our clients come from Australia, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus, Germany, Guernsey, Hong Kong, Israel, Italy, Kuwait, Lebanon, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Malta, Moldova, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States, as well as Monaco and France.

Who we are
What we do

Fields of expertise

Single family officesFor families whose assets justify a dedicated structure, and who want a European base that holds up under scrutiny.Mergers and acquisitionsBuy-side and sell-side, from target identification through integration, with valuation and tax assessed alongside the legal structure.Family-owned groupsGroups at the point of succession, reorganization, or international expansion, whose ownership and structure will decide what the next generation inherits.Corporate structuringCreation, restructuring, and transformation of businesses. Shareholders’ agreements, private equity, real estate development, commercial contracts.Regulated financial activitiesLicensing before the CCAF, governance of regulated entities, and the regulatory dimension of a transaction.Arbitration and alternative dispute resolutionAnticipating disputes at the drafting stage, and resolving them outside the courts when they occur.

Structurally independent

We receive no retrocession from banks or from any intermediary. Nothing in our remuneration depends on which bank, which fund, or which counterparty a client ends up working with. When we recommend one, the reason is on the table.

Working from Monaco, not only on Monaco

Being in Monaco does not mean working only on Monegasque matters. The families and groups we advise hold entities in London, Paris, New York, and elsewhere; the Monegasque component is one element of a larger set, and we keep the whole picture in view.

What we do not do

We do not practice litigation, and we do not represent clients before the courts. Richard Marcon appears for longstanding clients before Monaco’s administrative authorities only: the Financial Activities Supervisory Commission (CCAF) and the Monegasque Financial Security Authority (AMSF), both independent, and the Business Development Agency (DDE).

We do not sell compliance procedures. Both partners teach the subject at the International University of Monaco; neither sells it as a service. That is a matter of professional ethics, not a gap in the offering.