Astrid Duboys Fresney

Samantha Nataf, Partner since 2018, focuses her practice on international arbitration and related court proceedings. She advises multinational companies, states and state entities in the resolution of international disputes with high strategic stakes, submitted to commercial or investment arbitration, in France and abroad. She has acted as counsel in over 50 international arbitrations taking place under the major arbitration rules (ICC, ICSID, LCIA, DIAC, UNCITRAL, etc.) in a wide range of se...

Mireille Mull-Jochem, Partner since 2018, is involved in corporate and private equity, and more particularly in the structuring of management companies and investment funds. She advises portfolio management companies as well as industrial and service groups on the structuring of their investment vehicles and on all their regulatory and/or specific issues. Particularly involved in private equity activities, she intervenes in the following areas: structuring of private equity investment vehicle...

Founding Partner of BG2V since 2010 - Member of the Paris Bar since 2002​ ​ Experience : BG2V, Franklin, Deloitte & Touche Legal ad Taw, Tax Management of the Crédit Lyonnais.​ ​ Education : DESS of International Taxation, University of Paris II Panthéon Assas, Higher Institute of Interpreting and Translation.​ ​ Practice areas : Jean-Marc specializes in corporate taxation, mergers and acquisitions, LBOs, transaction taxation, property taxation and executive taxation. He als...

Caroline Texier is experienced in restructuring and bankruptcy. Her main areas of expertise include insolvency proceedings and debt restructuring. Caroline has solid experience in restructuring companies in international distress, both in the context of amicable resolution and formal liquidation proceedings, in which she advises all types of parties. Her expertise covers all aspects of restructuring, including bankruptcy litigation.

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 ...

Pierre GOUGÉ is co-head of the « Merges & Acquisitions - Corporate law » Department. His expertise extends to the following areas : mergers and acquisitions : advisory work with French and international groups in the framework of external growth operations, company transfers, mergers and demergers private equity : in the broadest sense, capital risk, capital development, LBOs stock markets / capital markets : IPOs, overseeing publicly listed companies, capital markets (...

Lawyer, Member of the Paris Bar (admitted in 1999) Lexing Alain Bensoussan Avocats Head of the Data Protection & Privacy department and member of the firm since 1999 Certificat d’Aptitude à la Profession d’Avocats (Bar exam) (1999) Doctorat (Doctoral degree) on the internet and consumer sales (“L’Internet et la vente aux consommateurs”) (1999). Advisory and litigation in the following areas: - Auditing legal compliance of information systems with priva...

Alexis Valençon is the co-founder and Managing Partner of Kennedys’ Paris office and sits at the firm’s Governance Group. He is an insurance and reinsurance specialist with extensive expertise in complex litigation and arbitration. He advises leading French and foreign insurance and reinsurance companies, brokers, major policyholders and manufacturers on matters of insurance and reinsurance litigation and arbitration, professional and product liability, construction, cyber ...

Philippe Guibert is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Competition / Antitrust Law, European Union Law and Litigation. Philippe, who practices law in Paris, France, has been recognized since 2011. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Philippe is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Frédéric Leclercq is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Labor and Employment Law. Frédéric, who practices law in Paris, France, has been recognized since 2020. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Frédéric is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.