Lawyers in France

Denis Bourgarel

Partner; French Patent Attorney; European Patent Attorney

Plasseraud IP

Denis Meyer

Force 10

Denis Redon

Denis Redon joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1990 and became a partner in 2004. He practices in anti-trust, competition and trade with a focus on merger control, cartels and abuse of dominant position, restrictive trade practices, anti-competitive practices, economic regulations, unfair business practices, distribution law and customs and excise law. Denis Redon advises corporate clients on a broad range of competition issues. His practice also extends to audits, including compliance audits. He represents clients during audits by the competition authorities, the DGCCRF (French consumer protection agency) and the customs authorities. He is involved from the initial investigation stage through to defending or contesting the merits of the case and appeals. He also acts for clients in litigation proceedings with other partners in these areas.

CMS Francis Lefebvre

Denis Santy

Adaltys Avocats

Denise Diallo

Partner

White & Case LLP

Denise Lebeau-Marianna

DLA Piper

Dessislava Savova

Dessislava Savova leads our Tech Group in Europe, and is head of the Tech//Digital team in Paris. Dessislava specialises in all areas of tech and commercial law, including technology and platform regulations, AI, data privacy and data governance, cybersecurity, commercial contracts and cooperations, joint ventures, e-commerce and consumer law. She leads Clifford Chance’s AI group. Dessi is a highly regarded commentator on AI issues in the mainstream press including BBC, CNBC and Reuters. She also speaks on AI issues at a range of events including for the International Bar Association, World Litigation Forum and City & Financial. She is a lecturer at Sciences Po (Ecole de Droit) and the University of Versailles Saint Quentin-en-Yvelines on Tech & Data Law.

Clifford Chance

Diana Hund

Diana Hund advises clients on a wide variety of corporate transactions, including domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and leveraged buyouts. Diana represents private equity sponsors, founders and managers in connection with acquisitions and disposals. She also represents German corporate groups in their investments in French companies and other cross-border transactions. In addition, Diana advises venture capital funds, corporate clients and entrepreneurs on venture capital and growth transactions of various types in sectors such as e-commerce and technology. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/hund-diana/

McDermott Will & Schulte

Diane Bandon-Tourret

Attorney at law registered at the Paris Bar, Diane BANDON-TOURRET leads the Life Sciences department of LexCase. Throughout her career, in both French and International law Firms, she has built a practice dedicated to Life Sciences industrials (pharmaceutical companies, medical device, cosmetics, and food supplements manufacturers, biotechs, contract research organizations…). She advises her clients on regulatory issues, notably manufacturing, market access, pricing, promotion, compliance with anti-gift regulations and withdrawal of health products. I also handle proceedings against French competent authorities, notably on sanitary police issues and is representing her clients before courts in serial liability cases.

LexCase

Diane Campion de Poligny

DLA Piper

Diane Jouffroy

Diane Jouffroy is counsel in Gide's Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions team in Paris. Her activities mainly cover private equity matters. She is particularly active in venture capital and venture growth. Diane assists both investors (French and foreign) and start-ups with fund-raising, governance issues, profit-sharing structures, external growth operations and exits. Prior to joining Gide, Diane worked for a leading start-up incubator. Diane was also seconded to the VC team of an investment fund in 2024. She holds an LL.M. from New York University and a BA, M1 and M2 in French law / Anglo-American law from the University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense. She has been a member of the New York Bar since 2015 and of the Paris Bar since 2017.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Diane Lamarche

Partner

White & Case LLP

Diane Reboursier

Partner Specialist in Employment & Social Welfare Law.

August Debouzy

Diane de Bustamante

Diane is a counsel in the Paris-based Finance Team. Her practice focuses on aviation finance and leasing, where she has an extensive experience in structuring, documenting and negotiating transactions on French and English law, as well as cross-border aspects of the transactions. She advises primarily airlines, lessors and lenders on their transactions. She assists clients with their complex tax structures such as green financing, JOLCOs, Insurance product financing (Balthazar and Piiq) and title retention agreements as part of SLBs. Working closely and building lasting relationship with her clients has allowed her to work on new topics and innovative financings/products such as sustainable lending, Balthazar and PIQ-type financings. Her goal is to act as a one-stop shop for our clients in aviation-related, corporate, finance and tax matters.

Bird & Bird

Diane de Moüy

Partner

HFW

Didier Fornoni

Didier Fornoni joined Hoche Avocats in 2019. He focuses his practice on market operations (takeover bids, IPO, public exchange offers), mergers and acquisitions for listed or non-listed companies and capital restructuring of listed companies. His expertise also covers the issues related to governance, shareholders disputes as well as stock exchange and acquisition litigations. Didier Fornoni began his career at Clifford Chance, before continuing his career in boutique law firms. Than he was partner in the Paris M&A group and head of the Equity Capital Market (ECM) group of Dentons’ Paris office. Didier Fornoni holds a DESS (post graduate degree) in Business Law and Taxation, HEC Department from the University Paris I Pantheon La Sorbonne.

HOCHE AVOCATS

Didier Malka

Partner

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Didier Martin

Didier G. Martin is a Partner in Gide's Corporate/M&A and ESG, CSR, Sustainability teams in Paris. His practice covers mergers and acquisitions, securities law, corporate law and corporate governance. He deals with acquisitions, joint ventures and business combinations, particularly involving listed companies, and has extensive experience of cross-border transactions. He assists several listed issuers with their stock market law, corporate governance and financial and non-financial communication issues. Furthermore, he coordinates the firm's ESG, CSR and Sustainability practice. Didier has recently advised leading French and foreign companies on mergers and acquisitions and joint ventures, including URW, Accor, Swiss life, Carlisle Inc, Zimmer Biomet and Normec. Didier is a graduate of HEC (major in finance) and holds a master's degree in business law from the University of Paris 2. He was admitted to the Paris Bar in 1992.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Didier Martin

Senior Partner

Bredin Prat

Diego De Lammerville

Diego de Lammerville has litigated numerous complex commercial disputes in state courts and in a variety of arbitral forums. Diego has experience in M&A/Corporate, securities and commercial/distribution litigation. Diego is teaching commercial proceedings at the Paris Bar School and also occasionally teaches securities litigation at Sciences Po.

Clifford Chance

Dimitar Hadjiveltchev

Dimitar Hadjiveltchev joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2001 and became a partner in 2016. He is co-heading the CMS Private Clients group since 2020. He advises high-net-worth individuals and families on complex national and international tax cases, including wealth and income structuring, intergenerational transfer planning, and supports clients in their international projects, whether in the context of their investment projects, particularly in luxury real estate and vineyards, or in their professional projects, as well in the determination of their tax residence. His expertise includes the advisory work for foreign trusts and similar structures, with respect to their tax treatment and their compliance duties. Dimitar Hadjiveltchev also assists his individual clients with their tax compliance (review, preparation, filing of personal tax returns - income tax, wealth tax and self-disclosure procedures) In his corporate practice, he supports French and international companies and groups in managing the preferred income tax regimes that can be applied to executives and high-potential managers. In the area of compliance, he coordinates and manages issues relating to personal tax returns (income tax, wealth tax, gift and inheritance tax returns) as well as the returns for the administrators of trusts and similar entities. Dimitar Hadjiveltchev also assesses whether clients’ situations or projects present potential risks in terms of anti-money laundering rules or rules against aggressive tax planning (DAC 6).

CMS Francis Lefebvre

Dimitri Dimitrov

Dimitri Dimitrov is a partner in Gide's Competition & International Trade team in Paris. He advises on competition and distribution law. He represents companies in proceedings before the French and European competition authorities (cartels and abuse of dominant position) and state courts (compensation claims, restrictive competition practices, etc.). He regularly assists French and foreign companies with the notification of complex, multi-jurisdictional merger transactions. Dimitri advises leading clients on competition and distribution law, both in transactional matters and major litigation. In particular, he has developed a practice aimed at manufacturers and distributors of healthcare products (medicines and medical devices). Dimitri is a graduate of the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and the University of Aix-Marseille. He was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2003.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Dimitri Leboff

Dimitri Leboff joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1999 and became a partner in 2013. He acts for French and international corporate groups on direct taxation (day-to-day tax matters, tax consolidation, transfer pricing, research tax credit (CIR), dividend taxation, audits, etc.), mergers and acquisitions, disposals and restructuring, as well as managing and assisting on tax audits and litigation. In addition to advising corporate tax, financial and accounting departments, he provides senior managers with asset planning advice. Dimitri Leboff coordinates all tax issues for his French and international corporate clients (in Europe, Asia, and America), drawing on the support of the CMS organisation.

CMS Francis Lefebvre

Dimitri Lecat

Avocat à la cour, Dimitri is a partner in our dispute resolution practice group, and a member of our global investigations and global antitrust litigation practice groups. He has strong expertise in regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings (especially before the sanctions commission of the Autorité des marchés financiers France's financial markets regulator), white-collar crime (including bribery and corruption), and banking and financial services litigation. Dimitri also has particularly strong experience of global investigations in a range of sectors (including financial services, banking, technology, defence and automotive), commercial and business law-related matters, shareholder disputes and post-acquisition litigation.

Freshfields LLP