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Frédérique Meslay Caloni

Frédérique Meslay Caloni, Partner and Co-Head of Dentons Paris Employment Group, is a litigation expert with a 20-year track record in employment, and contract/commercial law, advising French and multinational businesses on risk prevention in the pre-litigation, negotiation, litigation and post-litigation phases. In employment, Frédérique advises companies and handles individual and collective litigation before the French Labor Courts related to restructuring, redundancy plans, voluntary plans, departure of executives, transactions, sexual and workplace harassment, discrimination, safety and health issues, covenant restrictions. Her transversal expertise in contractual/commercial law allows her to provide complete service regarding issues combining both corporate and employment law (risks relating to abusive termination of services agreement, with consequences under criminal law, and recharacterization into an employment contract of a relationship with a service provider's employees, unfair competition, poaching of employees, departure of executives with an employment contract and a corporate office, etc.).

Dentons

Frédérique Potin

Frédérique is a “Of Counsel” working within the French IP team. Frédérique advises on a wide range of intellectual property and data protection matters. She has acquired expertise in dealing with the intellectual property and data protection aspects of acquisitions and corporate restructuring operations, as well as on contentious matters. She developed a particular area of expertise in IP licensing work, advising clients on complex development and licensing contracts. Her expertise includes advising on ownership of inventions and intellectual property rights of employees and public agents, and on negotiating and drafting co-ownership agreements and collaborations with French academics. Frédérique Potin is an active member of LES, being part of the Committee working on public/private relationships. She is also a member of the French association of biotechs, France Biotech.

Simmons & Simmons

Frédérique de La Chapelle

Frédérique de La Chapelle is a Partner in the Dentons Paris office and Head of Europe Insurance group. She is renowned in regulatory and dispute resolution matters in the insurance and reinsurance sectors. Frédérique assists domestic and international clients with all questions relating to inter alia regulatory insurance, transactions, partnerships agreements, transactional insurance, the structuring of insurance products (including affinity insurance), review and adaptation of insurance policies, review and negotiations of reinsurance agreements, licensing and portfolio transfer. Frédérique also has a broad dispute management expertise acts in the context of cross-border and complex litigation proceedings notably relating to civil liability (third-party liability, professional liability, product liability, industrial risk in the energy sector) and financial lines (D&O, W&I, fraud, etc.). Frédérique’s clients include insurers, reinsurers, CAC40 companies and brokers.

Dentons

Félicien Bardsley

Bird & Bird

Gabriel Dalarun

DLA Piper

Gabriel Flandin

Gabriel Flandin is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department. He focuses on mergers and acquisitions involving public and private companies, including both private equity and strategic acquirer transactions, as well as bankruptcy-based asset sales. He also regularly advises on corporate governance issues and joint venture structuring. Gabriel is a lecturer on corporate law topics at the Université de Montpellier, where he provides several courses on LBO structuring. He served for one year as external general counsel for Deutsch Group in New York.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Gabriel d\'Amécourt

Partner - M&A-Private Equity

Veil Jourde

Gabriel di Chiara

Partner - Tax

Jeantet

Gabriela Custodio

Gabriela is an associate in the commercial disputes team. Her practice focuses on assisting and representing clients before civil and commercials courts on all commercial issues. She also assists companies facing insolvency issues. Prior to joining the Paris Bar, she was an attorney at the Lyon Bar and practised in a law firm specialised in commercial issues and insolvency proceedings.

Addleshaw Goddard

Gabrielle Pierre-Lenfant

Qualified with the Certificate of Aptitude for the Legal Profession (CAPA) since 2020, Gabrielle is practising at the Paris Bar for three years, in intellectual property and digital law, advice and litigation. In particular, she advises French and international companies in protecting their intangible assets, as well as in matters of cybersecurity, personal data protection and e-commerce. Her litigation experience also covers trademarks, copyright and unfair competition before the French and European courts, particularly in the fashion, clothing, alcoholic beverages and construction equipment sectors. As a student, she studied International Business Law (Master 2) at the University of Aix-Marseille, whilst studying for the DJCE, and Intellectual Property Law at the University of Strasbourg (CEIPI, the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies). Gabrielle also studied for a year in Dublin, Ireland (Erasmus, L3). Gabrielle is also a guest lecturer in intellectual property law at the Université Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas and a trainer at the Digital School of Paris. She also holds a DPO certification (Data Protection Officer).

Addleshaw Goddard

Gabrielle Reddé

Counsel

Bredin Prat

Galien Devillers

Associate

Goodwin

Gaspard Fiévet

Gaspard Fiévet is an associate at Audit – Duprey – Fekl.

Audit Duprey Fekl

Gaspard Lundwall

Partner

Reinhart Marville Torre

Gaëlle Bourout

Gaëlle is a patent litigator with specialized expertise in the healthcare, chemicals and industrials sectors. Her strategic advice draws from her prior experience as an examiner at the European Patent Office, as well as a qualified French and European Patent attorney. Gaëlle has a strong expertise in cross-border disputes, designing and implementing litigation strategies thoroughly informed by her background in physics, chemistry and biology. She is ranked amongst France’s best patent lawyers by Legal 500, IAM Patent and IP Stars.

Linklaters

Gaëlle Le Breton

Partner

Gowling WLG

Gaëlle Le Quillec

Partner

HFW

Gaëlle Merlier

Gaëlle MERLIER is co-head of the Life Sciences Department. Gaëlle’s expertise spans advisory work on regulatory and contractual matters as well as the management of complex, serial litigation in commercial matters and health product liability. She also assists her clients during criminal investigations and in their dealings with the health authorities (particularly in the context of ANSM, DGCCRF, DDPP inspections, etc.). Furthermore, Gaëlle advises her clients on mergers-acquisitions and investments in the health sector (pharmaceutical companies, medical device manufacturers, clinical laboratories and other regulated health professions). Finally, she contributes to the launch of compliance programmes (anti-gift legislation, Sapin 2 Act, lobbying, etc.).

Delsol Avocats

Gaëlle Quillivic

Gaëlle Quillivic is Partner. She has two fields of expertise. She works in M&A and LBO transactions and in Senior and Mezzanine Acquisition Financing. She has taken part in a number of mid-market transactions, such as the takeover of Planet Sushi, the investment in Mon Véto, Mademoiselle Desserts and Occitane Group.

LL Berg

Gaëtan Berger-Picq

Gaëtan Berger-Picq joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1997 and became a partner in 2008. He advises and supports companies on all aspects of VAT, payroll tax, and property tax. In addition to his core practice, He also advises clients on managing tax audits and litigation.

CMS Francis Lefebvre

Gaëtan Cordier

Partner Head of Eversheds Sutherland Luxury Legal Group

Eversheds Sutherland

Gaëtan Rogeau

Partner

Stephenson Harwood

Geoffrey Gury

Counsel

Bredin Prat

Geoffrey Levesque

Geoffrey Levesque joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2018 and became a partner in 2023. He is head of the firm’s Project Financing practice. He practices in infrastructure and energy project financing (greenfield and brownfield sites, public-private partnerships, private finance initiatives, acquisition financing, refinancing, and privatisation programmes) as well as in bank financing (corporate and investment grade credit facilities to acquisition financing, leveraged finance, and property financing, etc.). His clients include industrial sponsors and investment funds, as well as lenders and institutional lenders. Geoffrey Levesque works closely with the firm’s teams specialising in public law, energy law, environmental law, and corporate law.

CMS Francis Lefebvre