Lawyers in France
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Edouard Thomas
Partner, Paris
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP
Edouard Treppoz
Edouard is Of Counsel at Bird & Bird in Paris, specialising in IP/IT law and international dispute resolution, dividing his time between the IP and dispute resolution teams. He is a full-time professor at the University Paris 1 Panthéon/ Sorbonne where he mainly teaches copyright law in its internal, European and international dimensions. During his PhD at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, he was a Fulbright visiting scholar at Columbia Law School. Edouard is the author of numerous articles dedicated to copyright law, private international law and European intellectual property law published in French and English, the co-editor of two books on those issues and the co-author of a casebook dedicated to 'International Copyright Law – US and EU perspectives' (ed. Edward Elgar Publisher with Jane C. Ginsburg as a co-author). His main areas of expertise are copyright law and the intersection of intellectual property and private international law/conflict of laws. He often speaks and presents at professional events here in France and internationally. He has been appointed as a member of the International Law Association's Committee, dedicated to intellectual property and private international law. In 2014, he was a visiting professor at Columbia University Law School where he taught international copyright law. Edouard is currently directing the Master 2 D2A in Economic Law and Audiovisual Management at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon/Sorbonne.
Bird & Bird
Edouard Verhoeven
Edouard is graduated of the Business Law and Management program at EDHEC Business School (Grande Ecole course, Master in law & Tax Management, 2021) and the Catholic University of Lille (Master II Business Law Practice, 2021). After completing several internships in business law, Edouard began his career in 2023 as a paralegal, then as a lawyer at De Pardieu Brocas Maffei in corporate M&A. Edouard has expertise in corporate M&A and private equity with a strong interest in international cases. He has also developed a personal expertise in commercial and corporate leases relating to real estate.
Addleshaw Goddard
Edouard Vitry
Before joining Addleshaw Goddard, Edouard has been a partner with K&L Gates (9 years), Simmons & Simmons (5 years) and an associate at Richards Butler (now Reed Smith) (4 years) where he headed their real estate group after spending 8 years with major French law firms Edouard Vitry, a partner in the firm’s Paris office, has more than 30 years of experience in real estate. He advises on all commercial real estate matters, with a particular focus on investment, finance, construction, real estate development and commercial leases. He has experience in all types of real estate work including due diligence, sale and purchase process, securitisation, drafting and negotiating contracts and leases, property disputes and ADR Edouard acts for international and French clients including real estate funds, asset managers, developers, banks, builders, real estate companies, landlords, occupiers and insurance companies
Addleshaw Goddard
Edouard de Rancher
Partner - Tax
Winston Taylor
Eduardo Fernandez
Eduardo Fernandez is a partner in Willkie's Corporate & Financial Services Department in Paris. Eduardo focuses primarily on mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. He is co-head of Willkie's European Committee and co-managing partner of Willkie's Paris office. A native New Yorker, Mr. Fernandez commenced his career as an associate in Willkie's New York office. He is fluent in English, French and Spanish. Mr. Fernandez has extensive experience advising both privately held and publicly listed companies on cross border acquisitions and dispositions, corporate venture investments and strategic alliances in a broad range of industries, including business services, consumer products, education, food and healthcare services. He regularly represents some of Europe's most prominent private equity sponsors on leveraged buy-outs (LBO), leveraged recapitalizations and late stage growth capital investments and has acted on several of the most prominent LBO and growth capital transactions in recent years on the French market. Eduardo Fernandez also regularly advises family-owned professional long term investors on a variety of matters.
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Eglantine Lioret
Partner
Squadra Avocats
Ela Barda
Ela Barda is a Partner at Signature Litigation’s Paris office specialising in commercial litigation, digital platform law, civil fraud and enforcement matters. Ela has over 10 years’ experience in commercial litigation. She represents both claimants and defendants before the French civil and commercial courts at all stages of litigation with a particular focus on high-profile cross border disputes. She has developed specific expertise in digital platform law and regularly represents French and international online platforms and media tech companies in civil and commercial litigation against individuals, companies and local authorities. Ela also has extensive experience in investigating, initiating and defending civil fraud claims. She regularly acts for international clients on asset-tracing and asset recovery proceedings. She has in-depth experience in pre-action proceedings on a wide range of interim applications. In addition, Ela has developed a strong expertise in the enforcement of foreign judgments and arbitral awards. Ela also represents manufacturers in commercial and product liability disputes in the aviation sector, as well as company directors in personal liability cases before commercial courts in the scope of insolvency proceedings.
Signature Litigation AARPI
Eleonora Sorribes
Partner
LPA Law
Elie Kleiman
Partner
Jones Day
Elif Kaplan
Associate
Racine
Elisa Bocianowski
Elisa heads the Paris office Real Estate practice, incorporated in our Financial Markets Department. She advises national and international institutional investors (real estate funds, asset managers, property companies, etc.) in all their real estate transactions. Throughout her career, Elisa has focused on real estate transactions (acquisition of buildings and real estate companies), construction and real estate development law and rental management with a specific expertise in commercial lease law.
Simmons & Simmons
Elisabeth Ashworth
Elisabeth Ashworth joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2008 and became a partner in 2011. She practices in tax law and manages VAT, payroll taxes, and corporation tax for the firm's Tax Intelligence team, working closely with VAT teams across the firm. She has also developed extensive experience with tax audits. Through ongoing dialogue with the tax authorities, she plays an active role in developing new standards to transpose European Union law or to implement major national reforms of VAT, property VAT, income tax, corporation tax, taxes on goods and services, and electronic invoicing. Before joining CMS, Elisabeth Ashworth had a 20-year career with the tax authorities. She first headed up the team in charge of VAT deduction rules in the French Tax Policy Directorate (1997-2003) before leading the team of technical experts in charge of corporate and local authority tax affairs in the Tax Audit division (2003-2007).
CMS Francis Lefebvre
Elisabeth Debregeas
Of Counsel, Paris
Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP
Elisabeth Graujeman
Managing partner | Attorney registered with the Paris Bar Association
Chassany Watrelot & Associés (CWA)
Elisabeth Logeais
Elisabeth Logeais co-founded the IP-IT practice at UGGC since the establishment of UGGC. The licensing of brands, patents, designs, software, R&D partnerships, databases, intellectual property litigation, digital, personal data are her main areas of intervention. She works mainly in the sectors of industry (road infrastructures, tools, cosmetics), services (network of realtors, foundations, medical devices, electronic consumer goods, fashion accessories), artistic creation, Museums and art law. Many of her clients are foreign based (USA, Switzerland, Germany, Korea…) and active in various fields (road infrastructures; solar road; medical devices, outdoors equipment and activities; health data management and sports). She is design rapporteur of the IP commission of the ICC and Vice-President of the Intellectual Property Commission of the ICC France. She teaches a course on IP and antitrust at the University of Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines. Elisabeth Logeais, Corinne Khayat and Anne-Marie Pecoraro are the partners in charge of the IP-IT department.
UGGC Avocats
Elisabeth Marrache
Elisabeth Marrache is leading the IP/IT and data protection practice at Addleshaw Goddard France. She has an expertise in intellectual property, new technologies and personal data and advises on complex transactions in digital law (IT contracts, outsourcing operations, internet law) as well as in personal data and intellectual property law. Elisabeth benefits from a wide range of French and international clients and advises companies and start-ups in the healthcare, telecoms, IT, financial institutions, and e-commerce sectors. Elisabeth is also part of different international committees such as the International Trade mark Association (INTA) or the Trademark and Design Law Practitioners Association (APRAM) and regularly speaks at conferences (AIM Marseille / La Tribune) and training programs on matters relating to new technologies and personal data. In France, she is co-leading the Addleshaw Goddard accelerator programme for young startups “AG ELEVATE”, advising on IP/IT and data protection matters. And she is involved in some Pro Bono work for several startups belonging to 42 Startup-Up Club (Ecole 42). Member of the Paris Bar since 2005, with more than eight years of experience in the TMT departments of major Anglo-Saxon law firms, she holds a post-graduate degree (DEA) in communication law from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas.
Addleshaw Goddard
Elise Baha
Associate
Mayer Brown
Elise Bénéat
Elise Bénéat is a Counsel specialised in Emplyment Law.
De Pardieu Brocas Maffei
Elise Dufour
Elise Dufour is a partner in the intellectual property, tech and data practice, specializing in new technology law. Elise advises French and international clients on their digital projects, both in consulting and litigation. Her expertise covers key areas such as data valuation and security (personal and non-personal), IT project management (cloud computing, artificial intelligence, SaaS, open source) as well as digital transformation strategy and the protection of online intangible assets (e-reputation, AdWords policy, domain name strategy and recovery). She also supports her customers in the development of e-commerce projects, whether for websites or mobile applications.
Stephenson Harwood
Elise Goebel
Elise Goebel’s practice focuses on domestic and international litigation and arbitration, as well as white-collar defense and investigations.
Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton
Elise Kosman
Counsel
ADVANT Altana
Elise Marie
Elise Marie is Of Counsel in the Intellectual Property, Telecommunications, Media & Technology team. She advises clients and has extensive experience in non-contentious matters (audits of intellectual property portfolios, contracts) and contentious matters (proceedings before French, European and foreign courts and offices). She also practises copyright and unfair competition law. Elise advises and manages the industrial property rights portfolios of some of the world's leading brands, particularly in the sports, finance, fashion and consumer goods sectors. Elise graduated in law from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas and in intellectual property law from the University of Aix-Marseille. She has been a member of the Paris Bar since 2013.
Gide Loyrette Nouel
Elise Mignard
Elise Mignard is counsel in Gide's Insurance team in Paris. Her practice covers insurance and civil liability law. She is particularly involved in non-life insurance litigation (construction insurance, damage, civil and professional liability, special and industrial risks), and regularly takes part, on behalf of clients, in legal expert meetings. He also provides legal advice to insurers and other clients. Elise recently assisted an architect in drafting the insurance clauses of a contract relating to the construction of a battery production and recycling plant for electric vehicles. She also assisted an insurer in a dispute relating to a hydroelectric power station and handled an insurance dispute relating to the construction of a port in West Africa. Elise holds a Master 2 in Public Economic Law from the University of Paris I (2006) and a Master 2 in Criminal Law and Criminal Sciences from the University of Paris II (2005). She regularly publishes in her areas of expertise. She was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2007 and has been a Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales since 2021.
Gide Loyrette Nouel