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Alexandre Koenig is the partner heading the restructuring and insolvency practice within the Paris office of Stephenson Harwood LLP. He is a restructuring and insolvency and dispute resolution specialist. Alexandre advises and assists a wide range of French and international clients, including the various stakeholders faced with an insolvency situation or crisis (distressed companies, shareholders, creditors, debtors in difficulty, investors, purchasers, insolvency practitioners, etc.) on all...

Fabien Rorato is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate Law. Fabien, who practices law in Paris, France, has been recognized since 2022. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Fabien is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Cécile ROUQUETTE-TÉROUANNE worked in Washington, D.C. for the firm of Baker & Miller in 1997. Upon moving back to France, she was called to the Bar in Lyon and spent five years as an assistant in the commercial law firm of Courtillié, Chauviré, Grange & Linares. Cécile ROUQUETTE-TÉROUANNE joined Cornet Vincent Ségurel (first in the Nantes, then in the Paris offices) in 2007. She has been in charge of the property law department in the P...

Gwenaël Kropfinger is a tax partner and a member of both the Private Funds and Private Equity M&A Groups, as well as the firm’s Private Capital industry group. Gwenaël has extensive experience advising private equity funds and multinational groups on the tax structuring of M&A transactions, including leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and capital markets deals. In addition to his transactional work, Gwenaël is highly experienced in the formation and structuring of French an...

Sophie Pelicier-Loevenbruck is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Labor and Employment Law. Sophie, who practices law in Paris, France, has been recognized since 2023. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Sophie is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Jean-François Pourdieu is a top attorney recognized by Best Lawyers in the practice area(s) of Corporate Law, Leveraged Buyouts, Mergers and Acquisitions Law and Private Equity Law. Jean-François, who practices law in Paris, France, has been recognized since 2010. This recognition is based on an exhaustive peer-review survey, reflecting the high esteem in which Jean-François is held by other top lawyers in the same geographic and legal practice area.

Partner, Jérémie Swiecznik is highly experienced in advising issuers and investment funds on venture capital or growth capital operations. He also advises listed and unlisted companies of all sizes on all mergers, acquisitions and reorganisations, both in France and overseas. His industry expertise includes healthcare services, technology and business services. Jérémie assists private equity and real estate funds, banks, financial institutions, corporates, family o...

Alexandre Moustardier has developed an advisory and litigation activity, upstream and downstream, in environmental law and town planning / construction law with institutions, SMEs / SMIs, industrialists, developers, companies involved in particular in cement and quarrying, energy, agrifood, chemicals, waste treatment, etc. Managing Partner of the firm ATMOS Avocats (formerly named Selarl Huglo Lepage & Associés until December 31, 2017), Alexandre Moustardier has developed, for twen...

Julia Minkowski was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2006 when she joined Hervé TEMIME, before becoming a partner of TEMIME. She mainly acts in business criminal law, general criminal law and business litigation, as well as in press law and art market matters. She has developed an in-depth mastery of international cases, in particular those in English-speaking countries.Julia Minkowski holds a Master’s degree in Business Law and a DEA [postgraduate diploma] in General Private Law fro...

Manuel WINGERT is a partner within the "Distressed companies - Restructuring" Department. A specialist in companies in difficulty, he works on the prevention and management of crisis situations, whether for preventative (ad hoc authorization, conciliation) or collective insolvency proceedings (safeguarding, recovery, liquidation, etc.). His expertise lies in the law applicable to companies in difficulty, directors’ liability, bonds, commercial contracts, leases, recovery, competition, c...