Lawyers in France

Emmanuelle Henry

Partner

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Emmanuelle Mignon

Partner

August Debouzy

Emmanuelle Pontnau-Faure

Partner

Ashurst LLP

Emmanuelle Porte

Emmanuelle is co-managing partner of Bird & Bird France. Emmanuelle advises companies and venture capital funds on fund-raising processes, M&A transactions, private placements and IPOs. She specialises in venture capital, M&A and corporate finance transactions within the Life Sciences & Healthcare sector. She focuses in particular on clients in the biotech, medtech and healthcare industries, although she also works for clients in the Tech & Comms sector. Emmanuelle's practice frequently involves advising small to mid-size corporate clients on fundraising processes, both within the French market and overseas. Her expertise includes advising start-ups and those selling new technologies on M&A, private placements and IPOs as well as general corporate and commercial matters.

Bird & Bird

Emmanuelle SORINE

Emmanuelle Sorine est spécialisée en droit fiscal. Ayant exercé en cabinet et en entreprise, sa double expérience lui a permis de développer une forte expertise en fiscalité corporate, tant dans les aspects de fiscalité générale qu’en matière de fusions-acquisitions. Elle conseille et accompagne les entreprises et leurs dirigeants dans leurs projets de croissance, de restructuration, de cession, avec une approche globale fiscale, corporate et patrimoniale en collaboration avec les équipes des autres disciplines. Elle assiste également ses clients particuliers et entreprises dans les procédures de contrôle et de contentieux fiscaux.

Ollyns

Emmanuelle Trombe

Partner Emmanuelle Trombe represents pharmaceutical, medical device and bio-pharmaceutical companies globally in transactional matters in relation to M&A and divestitures, joint ventures and strategic partnerings, large-scale projects, outsourcing projects, product development, licensing agreements and regulatory matters. She also advises venture capital funds and bio-pharmaceutical companies in connection with a broad range of financing activities. For further details of Emmanuelle's biography, please view McDermott website here.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Emmanuelle van den Broucke

Emmanuelle van den Broucke is a Partner in Competition Law and Distribution Law. In Competition Law, Emmanuelle van den Broucke assists and advises clients on merger controls (France, the European Commission, Morocco and the coordination of multi-jurisdictional notifications), anti-competitive practices (both in counseling and in defending clients in proceedings before the French Competition Authority, the European Commission and the French and European Courts) or for State aid. She also conducts competition audits, implements compliance programs at her clients' premises and works closely with other Dentons lawyers on compliance or risk issues. She has an excellent knowledge of the life sciences and pharmaceutical sector, as well as the luxury and food sectors. Emmanuelle has thorough expertise in the French regulation of restrictive practices, advising clients on the negotiation and implementation of annual framework agreements and conditions of sale as well as compliance of their business practices in accordance with their commercial practices with regard to the provisions of the French Commercial Code or specific regulations to certain products. She is also regularly consulted for the establishment of distribution networks (exclusive/selective/franchise/sales agents/other), including the drafting and negotiation of distribution agreements of all types as well as assisting clients in the event of their violation.

Dentons

Emmanuèle Lutfalla

After more than 30 years practicing in both major international law firms and top tier French law firms, Emmanuèle is one of the founding partners of the Paris office of Signature Litigation. She heads its French Insurance/Reinsurance practice. Emmanuèle's Insurance and Reinsurance litigation practice focuses on highly complex claims for their clients. She intervenes in various domains at national and international levels both for the Insurer’s accounts and their Insureds in order to advise them throughout their litigation’s lifespan. Emmanuèle has been involved in some of the most cutting-edge issues that have arisen so far in France, such as COVID-related cases, pollution cases and nuclear issues. She has been involved in some of the most important product liability cases for instance in the life sciences (medical devices) industry. In this respect, she has developed a specific experience in complex expert-appraisal proceedings and industrial risks investigations. She has advised a leading French engineering company, sub-contractor in charge of the geotechnical studies for the French main contractor following land subsistence in China in a shopping centre with escalators. She has also advised a company based in New Caledonia in the implementation of a “Terrorism” and “Vandalism” policy, following the occurrence of destructive popular riots. Additionally, Emmanuèle has assisted a French Insurer in US court proceedings related to the coverage of clean-up of soil and water at a site in New Jersey. Emmanuèle also advises on cutting-edge issues involving fraud, cyber, D&O and W&I. She assists her clients with pre-litigation and litigation procedures, Court ordered expert proceedings and enforcement actions. She is also involved in ADR.

Signature Litigation AARPI

Eric Barbier de la Serre

Jones Day

Eric Barbry

Partner

Racine

Eric Bernard

Counsel since 2015

Steering Legal

Eric Bolis

Eric Bolis is Counsel in Gide's Structured Finance team in Paris. He joined the firm in 2017 and specializes in structured and real estate financing transactions. Eric advises French, foreign and supranational financial institutions as well as sponsors on complex real estate financing (hotels, offices, retail, residential) and venture debt transactions. Eric has been named in the Best Lawyers Ones to Watch ranking since its inception (2021). Eric holds a Master 2 in Corporate Engineering from the University of Aix-Marseille. He was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2018.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Eric Burbaud

Partner; French Patent Attorney; European Patent Attorney; Czech Patent and Trademark Attorney

Plasseraud IP

Eric Cartier-Millon

Eric Cartier-Millon is a partner in Gide's Banking and Finance team in Paris. He specialises in structured finance and project finance. In structured finance, he represents senior lenders and/or mezzanine lenders in LBO financing transactions; he also has extensive experience of structured finance, whether or not associated with securitisation transactions. In project finance, he advises several lenders or sponsors in various financing transactions in France, including a paper mill in Golbey, a Daimler-Benz plant in Sarreguemines, the Stade de France and the A28 motorway. He also has extensive experience of debt rescheduling agreements. He advises creditors or borrowers in a number of debt restructuring transactions on behalf of major French listed and unlisted companies. Eric also represents clients in arbitration proceedings before the ICC International Court of Arbitration in Paris. Eric is a member of the Paris Bar.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Eric Deubel

Partner - Litigation

Veil Jourde

Eric Dezeuze

Partner

Bredin Prat

Eric Fiszelson

Partner

Ashurst LLP

Eric Knai

Partner Head of France Corporate Finance Practice Group

Eversheds Sutherland

Eric Lauvaux

Partner

Nomos

Eric Le Quellenec

Partner

Flichy Grangé Avocats

Eric Manca

Partner

August Debouzy

Eric Martin-Impératori

Eric Martin-Impératori is a partner in Gide's Real Estate team in Paris. He has specialised in real estate and town planning law, construction law, the acquisition and financing of real estate projects and commercial leases since 1990. Involved in all aspects of real estate matters, Eric has extensive experience of large-scale projects, including the development of shopping centres, office buildings and data centres, from the design stage through to completion and marketing. He assists a wide range of real estate players (developers, investors, management companies, asset managers) on all types of assets (shopping centres, logistics, offices, hotels, data centres, leisure, etc.). His in-depth knowledge of the entire production cycle of a property enables him to provide precise advice tailored to each situation. Eric is consistently listed as one of the leading property experts in the international legal guides Chambers Europe, Legal 500, Best Lawyers and Who's Who Legal Real Estate in France. Eric has been a member of the Paris Bar since 1990.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Eric Meier

Partner

Baker McKenzie

Eric Muller

Eric Muller, partner, advises French and foreign, listed and non-listed companies in corporate transactions, including mergers, acquisitions, joint ventures, disposals and corporate reorganizations. He also has strong expertise concerning stock exchange related transactions and corporate governance rules.

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