Lawyers in France

Stéphanie Chami

Stéphanie is an associate in the finance team of the Paris office of Addleshaw Goddard. She advises a wide range of clients on domestic and cross-border financing transactions. Her practice is focused on acquisition finance, intra-group financing and capital markets. Before joining Addleshaw Goddard, Stéphanie gained experience mainly in an American law firm in Luxembourg where she was admitted to the Luxembourg bar as a foreign lawyer and where she advised local and international clients, both lenders and borrowers, on investment fund financing and real estate financing transactions. Stéphanie is active in academic activities. She previously worked as a research and teaching associate at a French university and regularly delivers courses on business law and civil law.

Addleshaw Goddard

Stéphanie Corbière

Avocat à la cour, Stéphanie is the Managing Partner of our Paris office, a trusted adviser in finance law and co-head of our Paris Global M&A and Capital practice, helping clients achieve their strategic objectives through carefully structured financing solutions. As a partner in our Global M&A and Capital practice, Stephanie provides comprehensive counsel to private equity funds, financial institutions and corporate clients on leveraged and acquisition finance and debt restructurings. Her deep understanding of market dynamics empowers clients to execute transactions efficiently while maintaining flexibility for future growth.

Freshfields LLP

Stéphanie Delage

Partner - https://www.osborneclarke.com/lawyers/Stephanie-Delage/

Osborne Clarke

Stéphanie Foulgoc

Partner - Digital and creative business law (IT and Platforms - Data and Privacy - IP and Entertainment - AI and Digital Assets) For over 15 years, Stéphanie Foulgoc has been developing her expertise in all areas of digital and creative law. She practices in both advisory and litigation matters. She is a co-founding partner of NEXT avocats. Client-focused, seeking customized solutions, Stéphanie Foulgoc assists companies in all areas of intellectual property, innovation, privacy and entertainment laws. Internationally orientated, she also assists international groups and foreign companies with the compliance of their activities in France and Europe.

NEXT avocats

Stéphanie Guedes Da Costa

Partner

Flichy Grangé Avocats

Stéphanie GÉRARD

Partner

Cornet Vincent Ségurel

Stéphanie Lapeyre-Castellane

Partner

OYAT

Stéphanie MILANO

Partner

Joffe & Partners LLP

Stéphanie Nègre

Partner

LERINS

Stéphanie Patureau

Stéphanie Patureau’s practice focuses on EU and French competition law. Stéphanie has extensive experience advising clients on merger control regulations including complex, multijurisdictional transactions, as well as in international cartels and anticompetitive agreements, abuse of dominance, and regulated sectors. Her wide-ranging practice also includes work on foreign investment control issues.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Stéphanie Riou-Bernard

Stéphanie Riou-Bernard joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2009 and became a partner in 2026. She practices tax law, with a focus on direct taxation, advising and assisting companies, public bodies, and associations. She supports her clients in corporate taxation (advising and assisting companies and groups of all sizes and in various sectors (industry, commercial, services, insurance, banking, etc.)), taxation for non-profit organisations (advising charities, professional and public bodies, etc.), asset taxation (advising business leaders, family groups and individuals with all tax-related issues and in particular those related to ownership, transmission and disposal of companies and holdings) and investment aid schemes in overseas territories. She also advises on tax audits and tax litigation, assisting clients in their discussions with the tax authorities and defending their interests before the competent courts.

CMS Francis Lefebvre

Stéphanie Schweitzer

Partner

HFW

Stéphanie de Robert Hautequère

Partner

Almain

Susan Ekrami

Clifford Chance

Suzanne Carayol

Associate, Paris

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Sylvain Bergès

Partner

Racine

Sylvain Canard-Volland

Partner

Gowling WLG

Sylvain Naillat

Counsel

Nomos

Sylvie Canonge

Partner

Nomos

Sylvie Gallage-Alwis

Sylvie is a Founding Partner of Signature Litigation’s Paris office. She specialises in product liability, toxic tort, ESG and group litigation disputes. With almost 20 years’ experience, Sylvie represents manufacturers doing business in France in complex product-related disputes, including product liability, industrial risk, product safety, toxic tort, mass litigation/class actions, regulatory compliance and environment/climate change matters. Sylvie represents a variety of globally recognised manufacturers from industries including automotive, electronics, life sciences, cosmetics, new technologies, steel, energy, food, toys and consumer goods. She manages one of the largest product litigation teams in the French market. She is involved in several high-profile French industrial disaster cases, including large-scale fires, planned obsolescence allegations, use of conflict minerals, ‘dieselgate’, maritime engine accidents, marketplace liability and COVID-19 vaccine cases. She defends clients against claims from consumers, NGOs, business partners and competitors, and also handles investigations by French market surveillance authorities such as the DGCCRF, ANFR and ANSM. She has also coordinated product safety corrective measures across the European Union. Sylvie also assists her manufacturing clients with commercial litigation (e.g., sudden termination of contracts, unfair competition, significant imbalance cases) and the review of contracts and Terms & Conditions. Sylvie is a leading defence counsel in France for manufacturers facing mass toxic tort claims and consumer group actions. Her work in this area began with asbestos-exposure claims, where she established rare, company-favourable case law. Some of these cases are cited in the French Civil and Social Security Codes due to the significant legal precedents they set. Her practice now includes cases involving various chemical and hazardous substances, as well as claims based on anxiety over developing future diseases. Sylvie is a go-to lawyer for class actions in France. She has conducted a study for a client on class action systems in over one hundred jurisdictions and is one of the few defence counsel invited to participate in the Cambridge Forum’s working group on class actions in the EU. Sylvie is admitted as an Avocat à la Cour in France and a Solicitor in England & Wales.

Signature Litigation AARPI

Sylvie Le Damany

Adaltys Avocats

Sylvie Perrin

Partner

De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés

Sylvie Welsch

Partner at UGGC Law Firm, Sylvie Welsch co-heads the litigation departement. She regularly intervenes in litigation relating to contract law and liability, with a specific contentious activity around health law. Her area of expertise is the law of medical liability (medical accidents, nosocomial infections, iatrogenic diseases, health products, medical devices, vaccines, medicines, etc.) which imposes both the control of civil, administrative and penal procedures, and know-how in the management of so-called “serial” damage.

UGGC Avocats

Sébastien CARNEL

Partner

Cornet Vincent Ségurel