Lawyers in France

Cédric Hajage

Cédric Hajage is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, focusing on private equity transactions and mergers and acquisitions. In the area of private equity, Cédric has regularly represented private equity firms in leveraged buy-outs (including through competitive auctions and public-to-private transactions), build-ups and sales.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Cédric Hascoet

Lawyer

MCE CARREL

Cédric Meiller

DLA Piper

Cédric Poisvert

Partner

Nomos

Céline Bey

Co-managing Partner

Gowling WLG

Céline Cloché-Dubois

Céline Cloché-Dubois joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2003 and became a partner in 2020. She practices in Public law and Real Estate law. She acts for a large number of French and international clients in urban planning and development law, as well as environmental law, in the context of real estate project development. Céline Cloché-Dubois also acts for developers, funds, and banks in the renewable energies sector, especially in the context of project development.

CMS Francis Lefebvre

Céline Espesson

DLA Piper

Céline Larmet

Céline is admitted to both the Paris and the Luxembourg bar. She specialised in finance law, including asset-based finance, syndicated and bilateral lending, asset-backed bonds with a focus on capital call financings and real estate financings as well as portfolio transfers and restructuring. Celine acts for all market participants: lenders, borrowers, senior, junior and mezzanine debt players. Céline also specialised in real estate restructuring and insolvency work, working with lenders and borrowers and with insolvency practitioners.

Simmons & Simmons

Céline Leparmentier

Of Counsel

MCE CARREL

Céline Moille

Counsel

Goodwin

Céline Rifflet

Counsel

LPA Law

Céline Roquelle-Meyer

Céline Roquelle-Meyer leads the Health/Life Sciences team alongside Olivier Saumon and Jean-François Laigneau. She has developed a recognized expertise in the field of medical biology and especially in governance structures, professionals’ associations of medical biology professionals, the restructuring of their companies, and the negotiation and drafting of professional practice contracts. Céline has extended her activities to the pharmaceutical and medical professions as well as to the medico-social sector. She regularly acts in medical liability cases for compensation funds. She also has an extensive practice in the fields of e-health and disciplinary law for health professionals. She also intervenes in conflicts between partners, both in their prevention and in their judicial settlement.

jasper Avocats

Céline Verney

Senior Associate

Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP

Côme de Saint Vincent

Côme de Saint Vincent focuses his practice on advice to investment funds, top executives and management teams on tax aspects of domestic and international private equity transactions. He also regularly advises on corporate tax matters, and has developed a strong background in the life sciences sector. Côme also provides tax advice to high net-worth individuals on domestic and international estate planning issues and assists clients in the management of tax disputes. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/de-saint-vincent-come/

McDermott Will & Schulte

Damien Decolasse

Damien Decolasse joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2002 and became a partner in 2018. He practices in employment, labour and pensions law and has a particular focus on the organisation of working time, pay policy, relations with employee representatives and collective bargaining, employment protection plans, European harmonisation of HR policies, retirement and benefit plans and management of international mobility, national and international restructuring projects, setting up employee shareholding schemes, mergers & acquisitions, spin-offs, secondment and expatriation of employees, company audits, social security audits, hiring, and termination of individual employment contracts.

CMS Francis Lefebvre

Damien Fenard

Damien Fenard is Of Counsel in the Tax practice of Paul Hastings and is based in the Paris office. Mr. Fenard focuses his practice on tax matters, regularly advising French and international clients in contentious and advisory aspects of taxation. He has extensive experience in tax structuring of M&A transactions, both for industrial or private equity funds. Mr. Fenard regularly advises management teams in LBO transactions. He has also developed a strong experience in taxation of innovation, such as R&D tax credit, patent regime, or pharmaceutical taxes.

Paul Hastings LLP

Dan Roskis

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland

Danhoé Reddy-Girard

Partner

Gowling WLG

Daniel Gutmann

Daniel Gutmann joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2007 and became a partner in 2011. He is the head of the firm's Tax Intelligence team, His main role is to coordinate the firm’s legal positions in high-stakes, complex legal cases. He also oversees the preparation of client guides and studies. He is in constant contact with professional organisations and the tax authorities.

CMS Francis Lefebvre

Daniel Hurstel

Daniel Hurstel is senior counsel in the Corporate & Financial Services Department. He serves as a member of the firm's Executive Committee. Mr. Hurstel has extensive experience in mergers and acquisitions/capital markets, group restructurings, joint ventures, IPOs, corporate governance and the creation of a wide variety of financial instruments. Mr. Hurstel represents French and foreign companies in France. His clients include large French and international corporate and financial institutions and LBO funds.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Danielle Smolders

Partner

De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés

Danièle Darmon

Danièle Darmon advises clients on the acquisition, development, and leasing of commercial properties including office, hotel, retail, industrial, and warehouse assets. She has in-depth knowledge of the warehouse industry and related environmental issues (e.g., classified installations for the protection of the environment). Danièle is fluent in French and English. For more information, view Danièle's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/danieledarmon

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

Dany Khayat

Partner

Mayer Brown

Daphné Roger-Vasselin

Daphné Roger-Vasselin is a counsel in insurance in Dentons’ Paris office. Daphné mainly focuses on advising her clients on compliance with insurance and mutual insurance law and reinsurance regulations, and on the drafting of insurance and reinsurance contracts. She has extensive expertise in reinsurance, insurance distribution and affinity insurance. She also works on the management of insurance disputes related to the implementation of insurance guarantees as well as reinsurance disputes, before French courts and arbitral tribunals. Finally, she acts as monitoring counsel to assist in disputes with an international dimension involving foreign courts.

Dentons