Best Foundation.Models.Locations.City, France Lawyers (2024)

Blandine Allix

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...

Thomas Amico

Thomas AMICO is a Partner and co-head of the " Civil and commercial litigation " and " White-collar crime - Compliance " Departments. Specialised in business criminal law, Thomas regularly acts on behalf of companies and their officers in criminal proceedings in France and abroad. His practice covers all business law offences, from corruption, to cybercrime, fraud and press offences. Thomas also possesses a strong expertise in compliance and criminal risk prevention. He thus advises French an...

Jean-Christophe Amy

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...

Michèle Anahory

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 reimbursem*nt, 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

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...

Carole Arribes

Carole is a corporate lawyer with more than 25 years' experience. She advises both French and international companies on corporate, regulatory and contractual matters, including M&A operations, project development work, complex transactions (such as JVs), shareholders agreements, FIDIC, EPC and O&M contracts or commercial contracts. She assists across a range of sectors with a particular focus on energy transactions with worldwide industry expertise and extensive experience in renewab...

Lionel Attal

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

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...

Nicolas Autet

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...

Valentin Autret

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...

Celine Avignon

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

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 ...

Ahmed Baladi

For more information, please visit www.gibsondunn.com/lawyer/baladi-ahmed/ .

Olivier Baratelli

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...

Bertrand Barrier

Bertrand Barrier has acquired a solid experience in Mergers & Acquisitions and assists international clients in their investment projects. With 20 years of international experience, Bertrand is also involved in the development of large-scale projects and infrastructures, mainly in developing countries, and has developed significant experience in the field of renewable energy.

Delphine Baudouin

Delphine Baudouin specializes in banking and finance law, and assists credit institutions, private equity firms, debt funds and borrowers in arranging senior, mezzanine and unitranche debt financing for leveraged and unleveraged domestic and cross-border acquisitions. She also advises her clients in connection with transactions of real estate finance, trade finance, and project finance in Africa. Furthermore, she has recently advised clients on structured finance deals and debt restructuring,...

Alexis Becquart

Alexis BECQUART is co-head of the PARIS office’s Non-Profit Organizations and Social Entrepreneurship Department. He has developed recognized expertise in : legal and tax aspects of founding, reorganizing and restructuring non-profit organizations legal and tax structure of trade unions and professional bodies, on which he spends over a third of his time (articles of association, division into sectors or subsidiaries, mergers, competition regulations applicable to trade unions, etc.) le...

Alain Bensoussan

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...

Virginie Bensoussan-Brulé

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 ...

Jérémy Bensoussan

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

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 ...

Ariane Berthoud

Ariane has more than 20 years of experience in the banking and finance practice by representing borrowers and lenders in domestic and international transactions in particular in the private equity and corporate sector. She works alongside companies at all stages of their financing needs, structuring with the choice of appropriate financial product (senior debt, unitranche, mezzanine debt, etc.) to closing.

Amanda Bevan-de Bernède

For more information, please visit www.gibsondunn.com/lawyer/bevan-de-bernede-amanda/ .

Karim Beylouni

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, sto...

Matthieu Bichon

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 ...

Gilles Bigot

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

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...

Jean-Luc Blein

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...

Aloïs Blin

Aloïs' practice focuses on white-collar crime and liability litigation. He also assists clients with internal investigations. Aloïs Blin has developed a cutting-edge expertise in the following areas: labor criminal law (manslaughter and unintentional injuries, safety and environmental offenses, harassment); corruption and related offenses (influence peddling, illegal taking of interest, etc.); financial criminal law (fraud, misuse of corporate assets, money laundering, tax fraud, cu...

Gaëlle Bloret Pucci

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...