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Jeremy Scemama is an M&A partner and member of the firm's Private Capital industry group. Jeremy has been working for more than 20 years with listed and non-listed industrial and services groups on their corporate finance operations, restructuring and external growth operations. Jeremy also advises investment funds on leveraged buyouts, venture capital and development capital transactions. While working for corporate groups and investments funds, he has developed an extensive experience i...

Arnaud Moquin is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate Law. Arnaud, who practices law in Paris, France, has been recognized since 2025. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Arnaud is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Emmanuel MERCINIER-PANTALACCI has been a lawyer since 2004, was a Secretary of the pleading competition of the Paris Bar Association and is first of all an undisputed criminal lawyer . He is now also a recognised expert in the defence of lawyers, in arbitration, deontological and even criminal matters. In the field of criminal business law, he assists companies and their officers, whether suspects or victims, in matters involving criminal labour law, criminal stock market law, criminal tax la...

Eloïse Koudou is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Real Estate Law. Eloïse, who practices law in Paris, France, has been recognized since 2026. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Eloïse is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Thomas has a diversified practice that emphasizes matters in international and domestic taxation, with special experience in advising private equity funds and managers with their leveraged buyouts and in capital development transaction as well as companies on their growth strategies or reorganizations. Over the years, Thomas Pulcini earned the trust of many leading players in private equity across Europe, advising them in major mid-market LBO transactions with a nexus to France.

Following a career in the private sector and in law firms, Jean-Jacques Uettwiller founded UGGC Avocats – with other lawyers – in 1993. From the onset, his foremost speciality is the law of company transfers (what some posers call M&A), providing advice or assisting with litigation, but also deal with the management of the personal assets of wealthy families. In fact, his practice is both international and multidisciplinary at the same time since it covers international arbitr...

For more than 25 years, Philippe Bouchez El Ghozi has developed top-level expertise and experience in the fields of business criminal law, internal investigations, compliance and business litigation, involving sensitive and complex cases requiring a thorough understanding of the economic, social, financial and media environment. As such, he enjoys extensive practice in the criminal, commercial and civil courts, as well as in the numerous inquiries and investigations carried out by the judicia...

Christophe Gaillard is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Banking and Finance Law, Leveraged Buyouts and Structured Finance Law. Christophe, 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 Christophe is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Thierry Lauriol is a recognised specialist in the fields of mining, energy and natural resources law, and in international, commercial and investment arbitration, and OHADA law. As Partner since 1997 and Manager of the Energy, Mining and Infrastructure Department, he has almost thirty years’ experience in France, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Thierry, who has a Doctorate in Law, teaches at Paris II – Panthéon-Assas University, where he co-leads a university diploma de...

2.1 Pull-out Statement/ Quote Antitrust and Regulatory lawyer Jean-Paul Tran Thiet brings experience and know-how to clients involved in competition-related proceedings or facing regulatory stakes. He is described as “ ‘An iron hand in a velvet glove’ when it comes to defending his clients’ interests ”. (Legal 500, EU Competition and Distribution (France) 2014) 2.2 Biographical overview As head of the EU Antitrust and Regulatory Practice at SophiaLex, Jean-Paul T...