Law firms in France

BCTG Avocats is a French business law firm providing advisory and litigation services with a focus on strategic, cross-disciplinary solutions tailored to clients across sectors including energy, mining and renewable projects. Founded in 1971, the firm has a significant international client base (notably in Africa and Japan) and emphasizes long-term partner relationships and multidisciplinary teamwork.

BDGS Associés

France

BDGS Associés is a French independent law firm founded in 2013 that advises on strategic and complex matters across mergers and acquisitions, corporate law, competition and regulatory law, tax, dispute resolution, restructuring and insolvency, and finance. The firm has around sixty lawyers; partners work in small, responsive teams and it regularly acts on international transactions, with several lawyers who are bicultural, multilingual or dual-qualified.

BG2V

France

BG2V is an independent French law firm of nearly 70 attorneys (including 18 partners, 6 counsels and 42 associates) providing tailored advisory and litigation services to mid-sized companies and major French and international groups. The firm advises across areas such as litigation, tax, white‑collar matters, employment, M&A and private equity, real estate, intellectual property and technology, distressed company matters, and public and environmental law, and practices in French and English with international network relationships.

Baker McKenzie

Argentina, Australia +42

Baker McKenzie is a global law firm with offices and affiliated practices across many jurisdictions. The firm provides full-service legal advice across a broad range of cross-border and domestic matters, including corporate transactions, finance, tax, disputes, and regulatory issues.

Barbier Legal

France

Barbier Legal is a boutique law firm founded in 2015 by Jérôme Barbier, specializing in insolvency and restructuring, crisis management and distressed transactions, with a focus on Franco‑Swiss business relations. The firm advises distressed companies, investors and corporate clients on pre-insolvency proceedings, financial restructuring, distressed M&A, industrial restructuring, private equity, commercial law and litigation, and maintains offices in France and Switzerland.

Bauhaus Avocats

France

Bauhaus Avocats is a Paris-based boutique law firm advising international investors, asset managers, developers and institutional stakeholders on complex M&A and real estate matters in France. The firm provides transactional and corporate support across acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, development projects, commercial leasing, asset management and construction, assists foreign clients with cross-border investment, due diligence and corporate structuring, and integrates ESG and sustainability considerations into its operations.

Behring

France

BEHRING is a niche law firm specializing in telecommunications, information technology and space law, with a dedicated intellectual property and data protection practice. It advises French and international clients — including fixed and mobile operators and satellite/space industry players — and fields a multidisciplinary, bilingual team with UK- and French-qualified lawyers and experience in French-speaking African jurisdictions.

Bentam Societe D'Avocats

France

Bentam Société d'Avocats is a France-based law firm, founded in 2021 with 12 professionals, focused on the financing industry and advising banks, investment funds, financial institutions, public entities and companies. The firm advises on bond and other market financings (including EMTN and negotiable debt programs), loans (including German-law Schuldschein), project finance for renewable energy and infrastructure, and related legal, tax and derivatives issues.

Bersay

France

Founded in 1995, Bersay is a Paris-based law firm of around 50 lawyers providing specialist advice in contentious and non-contentious business matters for public and private clients and investment funds, handling both French and international transactions. The firm is ISO 9001 certified and is regularly recognized across its practice areas.

Bessis Avocats

France

Bessis Avocats is a French boutique law firm with nearly 50 years' experience providing specialized legal advice and representation in areas such as commercial litigation, IP/IT, real estate, distribution, commercial transactions and aviation, and in dispute resolution before civil, commercial and criminal courts as well as arbitration. The firm serves international groups, SMEs, executives and private individuals with tailored, client-focused solutions.

Bichot & Associés

France

Bichot & Associés is a French law firm with nine lawyers. The firm provides services in English and French.

Bignon Lebray

France

Bignon Lebray is a French law firm with offices in Paris, Lyon, Lille and Aix-en-Provence. Contact details for each office, including telephone numbers and a general communications email, are listed on the firm's website.

Bird & Bird

Australia, Belgium +23

Bird & Bird is an international law firm with a sector-focused, cross-border practice serving clients in technology-driven and regulated industries. Its offices provide a range of advisory, transactional and contentious services across multiple jurisdictions.

Boché Dobelle

France

Boché Dobelle is a firm with locations in France, including an office at 5 Rue Henri De Bornier, 75116 Paris, France.

Bonifassi Avocats

France

Based in Paris, Bonifassi Avocats is a litigation boutique specializing in international litigation involving complex financial crimes, including corruption and fraud, with a strong focus on asset recovery and enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards. The firm handles transnational enforcement of confiscation orders, insolvency judgments and receiverships and advises on criminal law and procedure in international contexts, combining personal client attention with international experience.

Borrel d’Arche

France

BORREL d'ARCHE Avocats is an independent French law firm, founded in 2008, focused on competition law, distribution law and commercial litigation. The five-lawyer firm represents French and international companies across sectors and advises on litigation, antitrust investigations, distribution networks, franchise matters and commercial negotiations.

Bougartchev Moyne Associés

France

Bougartchev Moyne Associés is a French litigation boutique founded in January 2017 by Kiril Bougartchev and Emmanuel Moyne. The firm advises public and private companies, banks, financial institutions and insurers (and their officers) in white-collar, civil, commercial and regulatory matters, with experience in emergency, complex, multi‑party and transnational proceedings and in negotiating settlement agreements.

Bracewell LLP

France, United States

Bracewell LLP is a leading law firm with approximately 350 lawyers across 10 offices, advising Fortune 500 companies, financial institutions, and municipalities on transactions, litigation, regulatory matters, and government relations, with particular strength in energy, finance, infrastructure, and technology.

Bredin Prat

France

Bredin Prat is a French law firm founded in 1966, known for its strengths in corporate/M&A and litigation/arbitration across a broad range of practice areas. The firm has almost 220 lawyers working in Paris and Brussels and collaborates internationally through a Best Friends network of 2,700 lawyers in 37 offices worldwide.

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Belgium, France +5

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner is an international law firm with offices across Europe, the Middle East, and the United States. The firm describes itself as providing integrated, specialist legal advice to a broad client base including corporations, financial institutions, public entities, not-for-profits, and individuals.

CABANES Avocats is a French law firm based in Paris. The firm lists an office at 141 Avenue de Wagram, 75017 Paris, and provides contact details on its website.

CBR & Associés

France

Established in 1994, CBR & Associés is an independent French corporate law firm advising on business law, strategic and complex matters with a strong transactional practice. The firm covers litigation, corporate/M&A, private equity, capital markets, IP, technology, telecoms, media and sector-focused work in areas such as tobacco, tourism, energy and music, and maintains international correspondent networks.

CGR Avocats

France

CGR Avocats is a France-based law firm advising clients on energy, industrial and social transitions across sectors including energy, industry, real estate, tech and mobility. The firm provides interdisciplinary legal services spanning energy law, employment, corporate/M&A, financing, insurance and public business law.

CLEACH Avocats

France

CLEACH Avocats, founded in 1965, is a French law firm whose team of experienced lawyers offers integrated legal and tax advice while taking litigation risk into account. The firm advises clients of all sizes on employment, corporate/M&A, private equity, dispute resolution, tax, intellectual property, technology, contracts and cross-border matters.