About
De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés is a full-service French business law firm advising corporations and public entities on transactional, financing and operational matters, and handling both advisory and litigation work. The firm has an international presence in Paris, Brussels, Geneva, Abu Dhabi and Abidjan, notes around 200 people dedicated to client relationships, and reports staffing figures of 42 partners and 90 collaborators.
Practice areas
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Lawyers at this firm
Adam Stolcz
Lawyer · Financial Services Regulation
Agnès Macaire
Partner · Public / Administrative Law
Anker Sorensen
Partner · Corporate / M&A
Anne Maréchal
Partner · Banking & Finance
Bruno Lunghi
Partner · Real Estate
Catherine Castro
Firm partner, Catherine Castro has strong expertise in the real estate sector: acquisitions/takeovers of completed or in future state of completion buildings, acquisitions/takeovers of immovable assets portfolios, sale and leaseback, leases (commercial leases, including in future state of completion), construction and property development. Catherine Castro specialises in all kinds of assets: offices, warehouses, complex buildings. She participated in numerous transactions in the hotel industry in France and abroad (takeovers, acquisitions, financing, sale and leaseback) as well as in the drafting and negotiation of management or construction agreements. In terms of commercial leases, Catherine Castro assists and advises more particularly occupants including for the performance of works and the implementation of good environmental practices. · Real Estate
Charles Edouard Renault
Partner · Media & Entertainment
Charlotte Hébert-Salomon
Lawyer - Senior Counsel · Intellectual Property
Claire Tergeman
Partner · Employment
Cécile Théard-Jallu
Partner · Technology & Data
Danielle Smolders
Partner · Real Estate
Esperanza Barrón Baratech
Lawyer
Francine Le Péchon-Joubert
Partner · Intellectual Property
François Couhadon
Firm Partner, François Couhadon is specialised in mergers and acquisitions, stock exchange and private equity. He advises listed and non-listed companies and investment funds in the context of national and international transactions, including acquisitions and assignments, public offerings, delisting, securities issues, restructuring, implementations of joint-ventures and shareholders agreements. · Corporate / M&A
François Zocchetto
Firm Partner, François Zocchetto mainly works in corporate and tax law, assisting both public and private actors. Chartered accountant, François Zocchetto began his private career with an audit/accounting and statutory auditor firm, and then founded in 1987 a law firm in business law for SMEs located in Paris and Western France. He has experience of the law applied by public actors and companies, and supports public projects (contracts, urban planning, public procurement, public service delegation) as well as restructuring, acquisition and transfer operations in entities of various sizes. He has held numerous mandates, including Senator of the Mayenne department from 2001 to 2017 and has been Mayor of Laval since 2014. · Corporate / M&A
Frédéric Destal
Partner · Administrative & Public Law
Henri-Nicolas Fleurance
Partner · Corporate / M&A
Jean-Baptiste Santelli
Partner · Banking & Finance
Jean-Christophe Amy
Partner · Corporate / M&A
Jean-François Paque
Partner · Litigation
Jonathan Souffir
Partner · Banking & Finance
Julie Bader
Lawyer - Senior · FinTech
Julien Horn
Partner · Intellectual Property
Kevin Ishac
Lawyer - Senior · Intellectual Property
Magalie Dejoux
Lawyer - Senior Manager · Public Law
Mathilde Traumat
Lawyer · Public Law
Matthieu Bichon
Partner, 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 for investment funds and medium and large companies operating in various sectors such as media, banking and insurance, hospitality, and industry. Matthieu also regularly advises new technologies start-ups in connection with fundraising and strategic partnership. · Mergers & Acquisitions
May Jarjour
Partner · Banking & Finance
Mireille Mull Jochem
Partner · Corporate / M&A
Nataliia Ivanytska de Maulde
Lawyer - Senior · Banking & Finance
Philippe Moncorps
Firm Partner, Philippe Moncorps supports our practice in the media and new technologies sectors. An expert in audiovisual transformations (content production and protection, advertising models and brand content challenges, etc.), he has expanded his practice to other sectors that are also facing accelerated digitization issues. He provides his services as an advisor and in litigation, on cases involving intellectual property law, media law, audiovisual and film production law and regulation, as well as in commercial and criminal law. He started his career as a lawyer, practicing for 14 years in the Cabinet Louis Bousquet (1992–2006) on litigation cases for the entire TF1 Group, particularly in the areas of media law and intellectual property. He then joined TF1 Group as Director of Legal and Regulatory Affairs, reporting to the Secretary General (2006–2010) and then Legal Director of Information and Judicial Affairs, reporting to the Legal Director of TF1 Group (2011–2017). · Media & Entertainment
Pierrick Le Goff
Firm Partner, Pierrick Le Goff focuses his practice mainly on international arbitration, major infrastructure projects, and compliance. He is also involved in various areas of international business law linked to these fields (equity joint ventures, consortium structures, technology transfers, sales and distribution agreements, subcontracting, etc.). Before joining De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés in 2019, Pierrick Le Goff was Group General Counsel of Alstom (2015-2019), a multinational corporation in which he has also held the function of General Counsel of the transport sector (2011-2015) as well as various positions in the energy sector in England, Germany and the German-speaking part of Switzerland (1994-2011). He had previously started his career in Paris in 1992 with a business law firm. His significant in-house career has enabled him to acquire a strong international expertise as well as a solid understanding of the industrial world and of major energy and transport construction projects. He has also been exposed regularly to claims management activities and the handling of disputes arising from projects execution. Finally, he has been involved in the management of compliance matters in relation with financial institutions and foreign judicial authorities (DOJ, SFO), the monitoring of due diligence reviews and internal investigations, and the follow-up of arbitration proceedings with commercial agents. In this context, he has gained a notable experience in the implementation of advanced ethics and compliance programs. In particular, Alstom became in 2017 the first company in France to be certified ISO 37001 for its anticorruption management system. This initiative has led him to receive on behalf of his legal and compliance team the Gold Trophy 2017 of the most innovative Legal Department by Leaders League. Pierrick Le Goff is an affiliate professor at Sciences Po Law School in Paris and serves as adjunct faculty member at the University of Marburg in Germany. His teaching and speaker activities focus on international commercial law, international litigation and arbitration, international construction law, corporate social responsibility as well as ethics & compliance. He has written his doctoral thesis on the topic of liquidated damages and penalty clauses in international contracts for the construction of industrial plants. · International Arbitration
Serge Lederman
Serge Lederman intervenes as counsel as well as in litigation in industrial property law in sectors as diverse as fashion, design and media and the food industry, and literary and artistic property law in the areas of art, media and communication. Recognised by his clients for his analysis of litigious matters and the stakes at hand, as well as his sharp grasp of litigious strategies, Serge Lederman advises companies and institutions on an international level and on domestic operations. He is a founding member of the Acteurs Avocats Associés Association at the Palais de Justice (Paris Courthouse) and also teaches at the Further Education Centre of Paris II-Assas University as part of the Art Work and Law (L’œuvre d’art et le Droit) course organised by the Art and Law Institution (Institut Art et Droit). · Intellectual Property
Smaïn Guennad
Lawyer - Partner · Commercial Law
Sylvie Perrin
Partner · Banking & Finance
Thierry Titone
Thierry Titone advises corporate clients on the organization of their activities, from procurement to the release for consumption of products and services. He specializes in relations between the industrial and distribution sectors and in the development of networks in France and abroad (e-commerce, franchise, selective network, etc.). He handles as well anticompetitive cases (advice, compliance and litigation), restrictive competition practices, and merger control in support of M&A teams. He has written numerous articles and recently co-authored a book on risk management, standards and product compliance. He is also a lecturer, notably for the DJCE – Diplôme de Juriste Conseil d’Entreprise, Certificate of Specialization in Distribution Law at the Centre du Droit de l’Entreprise in Montpellier. · Competition / Antitrust
Thomas Vaseux
Lawyer - Senior Counsel · Administrative & Public Law
Victor Omnes
Lawyer · Corporate / M&A
Vincent Schmitt
Partner · Tax
Vinscent Schmitt
Partner · Tax
