محامون في France

Louis-Marie Pillebout

Louis-Marie is a partner in our Litigation group in Paris. He is a specialist of financial disputes and corporate litigation. He works primarily for financial institutions, listed companies and their executives. He specialises in corporate, financial and equity litigation and primarily assists the management teams of listed companies and financial institutions, as well as shareholders and investment funds in the context of their litigation (judicial, arbitral, or criminal). He advises both French and international players, especially in complex cross-border litigations relating to M&A, shareholders' agreements, and bank fraud.

Simmons & Simmons

Louis-Romain Riché

Louis-Romain Riché, a recognized expert in civil, commercial and criminal business litigation, assists French and international companies (based in Switzerland, the United States, Luxembourg and Belgium) with all th eir issues relating to unfair competition, breach of contract and fraud. With over ten years' experience, Louis-Romain has also developed leading expertise in the management of estate litigation and international trusts on behalf of major French fortunes. He also provides strategic advice to investment funds during M&A and private equity negotiations.

Herald Avocats

Louise Duvernois

Partner - Real estate

Veil Jourde

Loïc Lemercier

Loïc Lemercier, Partner, heads the Intellectual Property and Technologies (IP&T) group of Dentons’ Paris office. Over the last 10 years, Loïc has handled both contentious and non-contentious patent, trademark, copyright, design, unfair competition and trade secret cases. Focusing on industrial property, Loïc has built a solid patent litigation track record assisting many large corporations with a particular emphasis on the pharmaceutical and telecoms sectors. Loïc's practice includes initiating and defending preliminary injunction proceedings, seizures for gathering evidence, and actions on the merits dealing with validity and/or infringement of the intellectual property rights. Loïc regularly advises clients in the technology sector, particularly in relation to FRAND obligations and the impact of those obligations on obtaining relief in France. In addition to his litigation work, Loïc advises his clients on contract negotiation and drafting (e.g., R&D, trademark or patent licensing, pledge agreement) in the context of M&A transactions.

Dentons

Loïc Touranchet

Loïc helps groups as part of collective bargaining (Annual Mandatory Negotiation, working time, GPEC (Jobs and Skills Forecast Management) and the management of high-risk cases in pretrial phases and litigation. He has a wide-ranging experience in company restructurings, turnarounds and winding-up proceedings.

Actance

Luc Bigel

DLA Piper

Luc Castagnet

Partner

LERINS

Luc Jaillais

Luc Jaillais joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1991 and became a partner in 2008. He practices in tax law with a focus on asset planning taxation. Luc Jaillais advises private banks, entrepreneurs and high-net-worth individuals on the tax aspects of asset planning. His practice covers business and asset transfers, contributions and gifts (including under the Pacte Dutreil, a favourable tax regime for the transfer of family businesses, apport-cession, contribution-disposal of securities under Article 150-0 B ter of the French Tax Code, and donation-cession, gift followed by sale). He advises on share savings plans, business property financing, property wealth tax and life insurance policy taxation. Luc Jaillais also consults on structuring employee and executive compensation, handling founder share subscription warrants, bonus shares, employee shareholding plans and mobility.

CMS Francis Lefebvre

Luc Julien-Saint-Amand

Partner

Valoris Avocats

Luc Pons

Partner

Racine

Luc-Marie Augagneur

Partner

Cornet Vincent Ségurel

Lucas De Ferrari

Partner

White & Case LLP

Lucas d’Orgeval

Lucas d’Orgeval is a partner and co-founder of VOLT Associés, where he is one of the partners leading the Private Equity / M&A department. He advises clients on corporate law matters and specializes in private equity and mergers & acquisitions. Lucas regularly assists corporate groups and investment funds with acquisitions, disposals, leveraged buyouts (LBOs), growth capital, venture capital, and secondary transactions. He also advises management teams and entrepreneurs in transactions involving investment funds.

VOLT Associés

Lucie Delille

Associate

OYAT

Lucie Dolla

IP/IT Lawyer

Dreyfus & associés

Lucie Giret

Counsel

ADVANT Altana

Lucie Jacquet

IP/IT Lawyer

Dreyfus & associés

Lucie Mongin-Archambeaud

Partner

Osborne Clarke

Lucie Paitier

Adaltys Avocats

Lucie Pernet

A member of the Paris Bar since 2012, Lucie Pernet practices urban planning law and public real estate law. She assists and represents public entities and private operators (landowners, developers) in the development, implementation, and litigation of complex projects (commercial buildings, shopping centers, sports facilities, transportation infrastructure, co-living residences, etc.) in the areas of urban planning and development. She advises on regulatory issues (local urban planning, joint development zones) and operational matters such as planning permission, commercial planning and, more generally, all administrative authorizations required for real estate projects (ERP/IGH regulations, “activities” approval, change of use, etc.), as well as public information and participation procedures (environmental assessment, consultation, public inquiry). She also advises clients on issues relating to public property and land ownership (expropriation, pre-emption). She has also developed a strong litigation practice in urban planning, commercial urban planning, and land ownership, before both administrative and judicial courts.

Adaltys Avocats

Lucile Gaillard

Partner specialising in mergers and acquisitions, in particular corporate restructurings and spin-offs of both listed and unlisted entities as well as joint ventures. She has notably undertaken restructurings of groups in the public sector and of groups with a specific legal status. She also advises founding shareholders in family-owned business groups. She has recently advised Sopra Steria and Sopra GMT on a global transaction consisting in the sale of Sopra Banking Software to Axway and the sale by Sopra Steria to Sopra GMT of a stake in Axway; one of the founding shareholders of SPHERE on the sale of a majority stake to Hivest Capital Partners; SNCF on its recapitalisation via a €4 billion share capital increase and on the reorganisation of Fret SNCF and Rail Logistics Europe following the opening by the European Commission in January 2023 of formal proceedings regarding French support measures for Fret SNCF; La Banque Postale on its acquisition of a 58% stake in CNP Assurances and its public offer and squeeze out of the remaining shares of CNP Assurances; Financière LOV on the regulatory aspects of the combination of its subsidiary FL Entertainment with Pegasus Entrepreneurial Acquisition Company Europe B.V; the French State (Agence des Participations de l’État and Direction Générale du Trésor) on the reorganisation of Bpifrance; and Aéroports de Paris on the restructuring of its share capital and the regulatory consequences of its privatisation.

BDGS Associés

Lucille Madariaga

Lucille Madariaga focuses her practice on complex commercial transactions, insolvency proceedings and restructurings, including prevention proceedings. She has an additional strong background in contentious matters, both during and after the restructuring, and more generally on all types of commercial litigation.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Lucille Montaut

Counsel

ADVANT Altana

Ludovic Duguet

Ludovic Duguet joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2006 and became a partner in 2017. He practices in tax law with a particular focus on the tax aspects of domestic and cross-border restructuring, and mergers and acquisitions (structuring, negotiations, due diligence, etc.). Ludovic Duguet advises clients on corporate group taxation, managing taxable income, and applying for advance tax rulings. He also represents them in tax litigation proceedings.

CMS Francis Lefebvre