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Jean-François Adelle advises financial institutions, investment funds and major French and international groups on transactional, regulatory and litigation matters (mainly in international cases). He heads the firm’s Legal Opinions Committee. He assists clients in a wide range of general and structured finance transactions: fund financings, asset-based facilities, acquisition financings, equity and debt financings, bond issues, project financings (energy, telecom), trade finance,...
The go to man for employment law issues, Jean-Marc Albiol is a partner at Ogletree Deakins Paris office, the only global firm dedicated to labor and employment, counting more than 900 lawyers fully dedicated to Labor and Employment . He has provided strategic advice on numerous complex and sensitive non contentious and contentious employment matters including mergers and acquisition, site closures, trade union or employee representative disputes, termination litigation cases and settlement ag...
Blandine Allix advises employers on labour-law issues, essentially on collective and individual disputes, including both labour law as such, and its criminal law aspects. She develops an expertise with the labour law issues that have arisen through new technologies.Blandine Allix holds a Masters in Law and a post-graduate degree in HR Management (DESS : Ingénierie des Ressources Humaines) from the Université Paris V. From 1999 to 2002 she was with Salans as an associate in its l...
Jean-Christophe Amy practises in mergers & acquisitions and corporate law. He has also developed an expertise in corporate taxation. He assists French and international groups, listed or not, for their corporate finance operations, such as acquisitions, divestitures or joint-ventures. He also advises his clients for the structuring and the implementation of complex group reorganizations. His practice covers notably health and life sciences, renewable energies, food & beverage and comm...
Claude-Etienne Armingaud is a partner in the firm's Paris office and a member of the Technology Transactions and Sourcing practice group. He is also a practice group coordinator for the Data Protection, Privacy, and Security practice group at K&L Gates. His practice relies on extensive experience in understanding technological and structural processes, which allows for innovative approaches to solidify his client's business models and protect their intangible assets, at all stages of thei...
Lionel Attal specialises in competition law, distribution law and Information technology law. He is particularly involved in all types of commercial contracts. Lionel has growing experience in the field of e-commerce and the new business models arising out of the growth of the Internet.
Arash Attar-Rezvani focuses on complex cross-border public and private M&A transactions, strategic alliances and business partnerships, international capital markets transactions and privatizations. His professional experience also includes corporate governance and shareholder activism. Mr. Attar-Rezvani was selected as one of 10 Rising Stars of the Paris bar by Décideurs Juridique for 2018, was named in The Best Lawyers in France 2021 and has repeatedly been listed as a Notable Pr...
Florence Aubonnet is a partner at top-tier employment and labour law firm Flichy Grangé Avocats which comprises over 70 specialist lawyers working in complimentary areas. Alongside an English-speaking team, much of her advisory work concerns international clients, mainly in industry, who need, given France's strict legal environment, reliable and practical advice with human resources issues. For international and French corporations and investment funds intending to set up, acquire or ...
Mr. Autret regularly represents clients in all aspects of their disputes, particularly with regard to M&A-related disputes, commercial and corporate litigations, stock market and securities disputes, bankruptcy litigation, corporate restructurings, directors’ liability, state aids and white collar crime. He has been heavily involved in numerous “bet-the-company” litigations in which the disputes have had high levels of commercial and financial risk and prominent media ex...
Professional activity · Attorney-at-law, Member of the Paris Bar (2005); Head of the Advertising & E-Marketing department of the Alain Bensoussan Avocats Lexing law firm. 2. Practice areas · Advertising and Marketing law; · E-commerce law; · Consumer law; · Data protection law. 3. Experience 1. Céline Avignon is the Head of the Advertising & E-Marketing department. Her practice focuses in: · Viral marketing; · Games and contests;...
Florence Bacquet has specialised in advising international companies on collective labour-law issues: staff representative bodies, collective status, group disputes and litigation with major financial implications. She also advises on restructuring and transfer of undertakings. A member of the American Bar Association, Florence, who is bilingual, graduated from the École des hautes études commerciales de Paris (HEC); she holds two Masters degrees (business & tax law, labour ...
Lorenzo Balzano assists his clients, project developers, industrials and investors for all real estate-related matters (land management, construction, leases, audit of real estate asset purchases and sales, “Grenelle” regulation and asset “greenisation” issues, etc.). Lorenzo has also developed a renowned expertise in industrial environment law (classified facilities, wastes, restoration of polluted sites, sanitary regulations applicable to property goods – asbes...
M&A AND PRIVATE EQUITY PARTNER Delphine has extensive experience in business law, particularly M&A and private equity.Delphine serves a clientele of French and international industrial groups and family businesses, providing assistance with devising and implementing growth strategies, organising shareholder relations and addressing governance issues. She also regularly assists investment funds and management teams in strengthening or structuring their investments and organizing their ...
Alain Bensoussan created in 1978 a law firm dedicated to technology law and data protection law. His law firm was the first French law firm to be ISO 9002: 1994 certified in 1998. In 2014 he created Association du droit des robots, an association promoting the development of the law of robots. He is the founder and president of Lexing®, the first global network of lawyers specialized in technology law. He has been designated “Lawyer of the Year” in Technology law or Informatio...
1. Professional activity Lawyer, Member of the Paris Bar (admitted in 2006); Lexing Alain Bensoussan Avocats, Head of the Digital Litigation Division made of four departments: Press, Media and Digital Communications Law, Criminal Law, Internet Litigation and Data Protection Litigation; Selected for inclusion in the 2019 edition of the US lawyer ranking publication The Best Lawyers in France™ for Information Technology Law. 2. Education Certificate of specialization in criminal law with ...
1. Professional activity Lawyer Paris Bar (since 2014); Lexing Alain Bensoussan Avocats, Head of AI and Robotic Technologies Law department (Artificial Intelligence Law, Data Protection Law, Patent Law, Litigation & Dispute Résolution); UIA | Privacy and Right of the Digital Person (President) ? Law of Robotics (Member); Included in the 2023, 2022, 2021 and 2020 editions of the US lawyer ranking publication The Best Lawyers in France™ for Technology Law. 2. Education Center f...
Raphaël Béra has extensive experience in the tax structuring of: - Alternative investment funds (private equity / real estate / infrastructure funds) in multiple jurisdictions, including the structuring of carried interest and co-investment mechanisms; - Mergers & Acquisitions: private M&A deals including LBOs, capital markets transactions; - Real estate transactions, including acquisitions of French real property by institutional investors and non-resident high net worth ...
Matthieu Bichon, member of the Paris Bar since 2006, practices essentially in mergers & acquisitions, corporate law and securities law. He assists French and foreign clients, principally, in acquisitions and divestitures of shares or strategic assets transactions, private equity deals, joint ventures and capital operations as well for the structuring of their management packages. He also advises in M&A litigations. Over the recent years Matthieu has been involved in many transactions ...
Bertrand Biette is a partner and co-head of Jeantet’s corporate restructuring practice. He works with both SMEs and large corporate groups, for both creditors and debtors, in the context of safeguard and turnaround strategies. His dual legal and financial training contributes to his effective approach to the issues encountered by companies and enables him to propose innovative solutions consistent with the requirements of their businesses. He also assists potential purchasers, sharehold...
Head of the Health Care Departments, Gilles advises and defends French and European leaders such as publicly and privately managed health institutions, laboratories, professional associations, medical equipment and pharmaceutical product manufacturers, and health care practitioners. He is considered to be an architect in the health care field.
Florence Bilger is partner in the Tax department of our Paris office. She focuses her practice on the tax aspects of investments, restructurings, and mergers and acquisitions. Florence has experience representing French and international clients in their inbound investments and restructuring transactions. She also advises French clients in the tax aspects of mergers and acquisitions, including structuring transactions, conducting due diligence, and handling post-acquisition advice and litigat...
Gaëlle Bloret-Pucci has been a partner at BCTG Avocats since 2004 and is in charge of the Intellectual Property department. For nearly 20 years, Gaëlle has been assisting her French and international clients, both as counsel and in litigation, in all areas of intellectual property. Her areas of expertise are: trademarks, patents, designs, copyright and internet. She also assists her clients in communication law, more specifically in advertising and media, sponsorship and influence c...
Specialist in c onsumer law and DGCCRF/DDPP investigations , but also in food law . Trained in European law and competition law, she developed an expertise in consumer law (cases of misleading commercial practices, comparative advertising, sales promotion, price reduction announcements, product conformity and safety). She assists companies from the moment a product is put on the market to the DDPP inspections and their criminal or administrative consequences, but also in commercial litigation...
Jeanne BOSSI MALAFOSSE is head of the Personal Data Department and co-head of the Life Sciences Department. She has significant experience in personal data protection and various questions relating to life sciences, particularly in the area of health information systems.She assists organizations in the following subjects : compliance with personal data protection principles in all sectors preparation for Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation regulatory framework of planned hea...
Vanessa holds a specialty certificate in Intellectual Property (trademark law, design law, literary and artistic property, computer and telecommunications law). She trained at the University of Pantheon-Assas. She holds a D.E.A. in Corporate Law from the University of Paris Dauphine and a D.E.S.S. in International Trade Law. She also studied Intellectual Property in London at the University of Queen Mary and Westfield College. Vanessa worked as an Associate Lawyer for the law firm Hirsch for ...
Nicolas Bouckaert is a Partner at Kennedys, whose Paris office he co-founded in October 2017. He is qualified as a French avocat à la cour and a solicitor in England and Wales, having studied in England (University of Oxford and University of York) and trained at a magic circle firm in the City, before relocating to Paris and joining one of France’s leading (re)insurance practices at litigation boutique firm BOPS. Nicolas is regularly instructed in complex and international dispu...
After he graduated from St Jean de Passy in Paris, Kiril Bougartchev studied at Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas. He has post-graduate diplomas in Business Law (Magistère) and in Tax Law (DESS). He first worked as an intern at l’Oreal in Paris and carried out several internships at renowned US law firms (Coudert Brothers, etc.) and securities brokers (Morgan, Olmstead, Kennedy & Gardner), before he started his career in 1988 as an auditor at Arthur Andersen. A...
Benoît BOUSSIER is co-manager of the Real Estate Law department in the Paris office. He has acquired widely recognised experience in the field of commercial leases and complex real estate transactions. He deals with every real estate aspect of corporate life (merger, restructuring, asset divestment) and asset management. He is also a Real Estate Agent and negotiates the sale of real estate assets. His other working languages are English and Spanish. Benoît BOUSSIER holds a Master&...
With 30 years’ experience, Thierry Brun is a recognised specialist in mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures and company restructuring. His multi-sectoral activity is mainly focused on international transactions for high-end clients including corporates and investment funds, both French and foreign, to whom he offers support in their strategic growth and/or restructuring projects in France and abroad. He also manages strategic litigation and arbitration proceedings related to his ar...
Louis-Bernard Buchman is an international arbitrator, with over 35 years' experience as a consultant and arbitrator in commercial disputes. Louis is on the panels of the American Arbitration Association, the World Intellectual Property Organization and the Polish Arbitration Court in Warsaw. Arbitration Rules (such as UNCITRAL, LCIA, ICC, ICR, Polish Arbitration Court, WIPO, International Seeds Federation), and chaired Several arbitral tribunals. The French Bar certified him as a specialist i...
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