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Jean-François Adelle has a practice in general and structured finance, distressed debt restructuring and financial engineering transactions with a strong regulatory component. He focuses on asset-based financing, deconsolidated financing, risk transfer structures, energy project, leveraged acquisition and fund financing, whether in loans or bonds formats. He has experience in transactions involving credit disintermediation, complex financial instruments, derivatives, digital assets, tr...
Jean-Marc Albiol is the founding Partner of Ogletree Deakins in France. He provides strategic advice on numerous complex and sensitive matters including mergers & acquisitions and restructurings of French and international groups. He regularly advises on issues related to employee representative bodies, collective dismissals, staff transfers, and he is also experienced in the setting-up of compensation policies. He has notably developed his expertise in the area of internal investigations...
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...
Lawyer for more than 25 years in the field of Life Sciences with a thorough knowledge of the regulation of health products. Advice to the various actors in this sector, especially industry and health institutions. Michèle Anahory is an expert in issues of market access, issues of pricing and reimbursement, advertising, distribution, regulation of cosmetic products and litigation before the French courts. Representation of clients in setting up public/private cooperation groups and advi...
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...
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...
Partner of BG2V since 2023 - Member of the Paris Bar since 2000 Experience : BG2V, Gibson Dunn & Crutcher LLP, Brandford-Griffith Baverez Cotty, Baker McKenzie. Education : Sciences Po Paris, Public Service Section, DESS in public law litigation, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, DEA in European competition law, University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Practice areas : Nicolas Autet advises on public law (public contracts, town planning law, local authority l...
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...
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...
Olivier Baratelli, born in Nancy on October, 1964, is a French lawyer specializing in business criminal law, press law and the art market. Career Olivier Baratelli studied law at the University of Nancy, in parallel with a degree in political science. Together with Paul Lombard, with whom he worked from 1989 to 2017, they defended Prince Victor-Emmanuel of Savoy, son of the last King of Italy, before the Paris Assize Court, where they obtained his acquittal on murder charges. In France, he is...
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 ...
Registered with the Lyons bar (previously with the Paris bar since 2012) Yoan assists French and international companies with respect to all matters pertaining to labour law and more specifically compensation policies, employee savings plans (mandatory profit-sharing, voluntary profit-sharing, company or retirement savings plans) and supplemental welfare benefits (supplemental retirement plans, death-disability-invalidity plans…). Yoan has also developed sought-after expertise in socia...
BG2V founding Partner (2010), Admitted to the Paris Bar since 1999. Expertise : Criminal Law Experience : BG2V, Former Secretary of the Internship Conference, Metzner & Partners, Salès Vincent & Associatess, Townsend Townsend & Crew (San Francisco). Education : DEA in Private International Law, University of Paris I Sorbonne. Practice areas : Karim is primarily involved in the criminal liability of the legal persons of their leaders, in financial, s...
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...
A tax expert by training, Jean-Luc Blein works in the area of mergers-acquisitions and private equity. He has gained additional expertise in the areas of restructuring and reorganization [of the distribution of powers] within groups, as well as in the issuance of complex financial securities in connection with mergers and acquisitions. He also works with the firm’s litigation team in acquisition-related litigation, specifically with respect to shareholder conflicts and warranty agreemen...
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...
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