Lawyers in France

Alexandre de Konn

Partner

LPA Law

Alexia Eskinazi

Partner

CGR Avocats

Alexia Russell

Alexia specialises in asset finance, leasing and project finance, where she acts primarily for banks and other financial institutions, equity investors, export credit agencies, and other lenders and lessors. Her asset finance and leasing practice focusses on transactions in the shipping, aviation and rail sectors, while in the project finance sphere she has developed strong expertise in the energy sector, especially as relating to renewables. Alexia has extensive experience in structuring, documenting and negotiating acquisitions, financing and leasing transactions and has been involved in numerous complex restructurings in the last few years. She has also developed a strong track record advising on ECA-backed financings.

Watson Farley & Williams LLP

Alexis André

DLA Piper

Alexis Becquart

Alexis BECQUART is co-head of the PARIS office’s Non-Profit Organizations and Social Entrepreneurship Department. He has developed recognized expertise in: - legal and tax aspects of founding, reorganizing and restructuring non-profit organizations - legal and tax structure of trade unions and professional bodies, on which he spends over a third of his time (articles of association, division into sectors or subsidiaries, mergers, competition regulations applicable to trade unions, etc.) - legal and tax structure of tourist facilities - legal and tax structure of bodies managing social and medicosocial facilities (pricing, founding social and medicosocial cooperation groupings, etc.) - managing non-profit organizations’ property assets (legal structures, tax impacts, sale of property assets, - use of investment partnerships, etc.) - litigation relating to associations’ operation (disputed elections, general meetings, exclusions, etc.) or activities (lease termination, supplier liability, etc.). He works primarily for associations, trade unions and professional bodies, foundations, endowment funds, social security groups, and social and medicosocial cooperation groupings.

Delsol Avocats

Alexis Bessis

Partner (individual practice) Alexis Bessis specializes in commercial and financial litigation, as well as commercial arbitration in connection with post-acquisition and shareholder disputes, and contractual and unfair competition litigation. He has significant experience in resolving complex commercial disputes and M&A-related litigation with a strong focus on post-acquisition litigation, shareholder disputes and, more generally, corporate governance matters. Alexis Bessis assists his clients on a day-to-day basis in preventing the legal risks associated with their activities and frequently appears before French civil and commercial courts as well as arbitration tribunals (ICC, LCIA or ad hoc). He is also involved in the preventive management of disputes, in pre-litigation negotiations or in mediation and conciliation.

Bessis Avocats

Alexis Borestel

Of Counsel

Ogletree Deakins

Alexis Bussac

Alexis Bussac joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2007 and became a partner in 2024. He practices on a full range of advisory and litigation matters relating to local taxation and provides comprehensive support on all types of issues across all sectors (industrial, commercial and service). He assists all types of clients, including mid-sized companies, SMEs, French and international groups, public and private entities, trade federations, professional organizations and individuals. He has extensive experience in: the property tax on commercial and industrial premises (TFB, TFNB), the local economic contribution (CET), the business land tax (CFE), the tax on business added value (CVAE), the tax on commercial spaces (TASCOM), the local tax paid by energy, rail and telecommunications companies in France (IFER), the annual tax on offices, the commercial spaces and warehouses in the Ile-de-France and Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur regions region (TSB), the tax on parking spaces (TASS), the tax on vacant premises and disused commercial and industrial sites, the residence tax applicable to businesses and individuals, and the local Tax on Outdoor Advertising (TLPE). His practice covers: review and optimisation of the rental values of business premises on which land tax and business land tax (CFE) are paid, assistance with handling tax audits, assistance with handling tax litigation, preparation of advance tax rulings and amendments to legislation, assistance with restructuring projects, mergers and acquisitions, assessment of the impact of choice of location, advice on and estimates of the tax consequences of new building construction, building demolition or restructuring.

CMS Francis Lefebvre

Alexis Chabert

Alexis CHABERT is the co-head of the Civil and commercial litigation and White-collar crime - Compliance Departments. A specialist in legal proceedings applied to commercial litigation, he has developed solid experience in conflicts between partners, liability of company directors, unfair competition, compliant delivery, defective equipment, etc. He has also developed particular expertise in criminal business law to assist company directors who are victims of crime (fraud, breach of trust, forgery and use of forgeries, etc.) and defend them personally for complex financial infractions.

Delsol Avocats

Alexis Fournol

Alexis Fournol is the founder of the firm, established in 2013. He is the firm's leading expert on all secondary market issues, particularly litigation relating to the authenticity of artworks as well as criminal law, customs law, and disputes over ownership of artworks.

Fournol & Associés

Alexis Hojabr

Partner

White & Case LLP

Alexis MARCHAND

Partner

Cornet Vincent Ségurel

Alexis Marraud des Grottes

Partner

Orrick

Alexis Pailleret

Alexis Pailleret is a partner in Gide's Mergers & Acquisitions/Private Equity team in Paris. He works on M&A transactions (acquisitions, disposals and partnerships). With over 20 years of experience, he is recognized as a leading expert in the energy and infrastructure transactional sectors. Alexis regularly advises investment funds, strategic investors, public entities, lenders and developers on M&A / Private Equity transactions in France and other jurisdictions. Alexis teaches mergers and acquisitions as part of the Master II in Business Law at Université Paris-Dauphine. He is graduated from the Paris-Sorbonne University and the Paris-Dauphine University. He was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2004.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Alexis Rapp

Alexis Rapp is a partner at VOLT Associés, where he heads the Restructuring and Litigation department. He has extensive experience in handling corporate distress situations, both in the context of preventive measures and insolvency proceedings. Alexis advises lenders, institutional lessors, industrial groups, executives, and shareholders on complex restructuring transactions and business takeovers involving distressed companies. His practice also covers litigation related to insolvency and collective proceedings.

VOLT Associés

Alexis Rutman

Counsel since 2015

Steering Legal

Alexis Terray

Partner - Private Equity

Winston Taylor

Alexis Valençon

Kennedys

Alfred LORTAT-JACOB

Partner

Cornet Vincent Ségurel

Ali Bougrine

Ali Bougrine is Managing Partner of UGGC Avocats (Paris) and Managing Partner of UGGC Africa (Morocco - Douala - Abidjan). He is a multidisciplinary lawyer working on local and cross-border transactions mainly in the EMEA region. He specializes in corporate law with a focus on Mergers & Acquisitions, International Investments, Private Equity, and Litigation & Arbitration. He is also an expert in OHADA Law which he has been practicing for more than a decade. In 2021, he was ranked among the 20 best lawyers in Africa by Jeune Afrique Business+. He has a double degree in public and corporate law (DEA and DESS) from the University of Paris V – René Descartes, and was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2003. He started his career at UGGC Avocats in 2002 and has remained loyal to this independent firm created in 1993. He then became a partner of the M&A department in Paris. Ali is also the Managing Partner of UGGC Africa, leading the African offices in Casablanca, Douala, Abidjan, and Paris Desk. For over 20 years, UGGC Africa has been deeply involved in major pan-African cross-border transactions, primarily in French-speaking Africa. Ali Bougrine is a member of several associations such as the « Conseil Français des Investisseurs en Afrique » (CIAN), the Israel-Morocco Chamber of Commerce and Industry since the launch of the international alliance of the two leading law firms in Morocco and Israel: FIRON-UGGC in 2022, the International Association of Lawyers (ULA), the “Association Française d’Arbitrage” (AFA), the French Association of Investors for Growth, France Invest, the Moroccan Business Lawyers Association (AJAM), the Moroccan Association of Capital Investors (AMIC). He holds the job of representative for the BNP Trade International. Ali is the author of several articles and publications and has given numerous interviews to the media (Le Monde du Droit, BFM TV, RFI, La Tribune Afrique, Médi1 radio, Magazine de l’Afrique, Les Inspirations Eco magazine, Africa Business+, etc.). He is a regular speaker at international conferences and forums and pursues an educational activity by regularly conducting numerous training sessions on Mergers & Acquisitions, international investments and litigation & arbitration (Francis Lefebvre Formation, “Ecole de Formation du Barreau de Paris” EFB, Groupe EFE, “Université International de Rabat” UIR, etc.). With The World Bank Group, he contributed in 2021 to the drafting of the Moroccan chapter of the Doing Business Project related to their Transfer of Ownership indicator, including a section describing efforts to support recovery after Covid-19. Ali is a native French and Arabic speaker, and is fluent in English.

UGGC Avocats

Alice Bellières

IP/IT Lawyer

Dreyfus & associés

Alice Bouillié

Alice Bouillié is Of Counsel in Gide's Public Law and Environment teams in Paris. She advises on and litigates before the administrative, civil and criminal courts, in environmental law (ICPE, water law, soil pollution, waste, industrial risks, natural areas, protected species/biodiversity), nuclear law and energy law, as well as in mining and extractive activities law, and in matters relating to the circular economy, CSR/ESG and sustainable development (Gide Impact). In addition to her advisory and litigation work, Alice is a contributor to the Bulletin de droit de l'environnement industriel, and has written the books Lamy Transition énergétique and Offshore Wind Licensing (Edward Elgar Publishing). She is a member of the Club des avocats environnementalistes (CDAE) and the Cercle interprofessionnel du droit de l'environnement (CIDDE), and co-responsible for the Commission Environnement et Risques industriels of the Paris Bar Association. She has taught a course in nuclear law at Paris Descartes University since 2016. Alice holds a postgraduate diploma (DEA) in environmental law from the Universities of Paris I and Paris II (1997) and a diploma from the Institut de Droit des Affaires (IDA) at the University of Paris II (1996). She was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2002.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Alice Delamarre

Alice Delamarre has been working with Marie-Alice Jourde since 2007. She joined jasper avocats in 2020 when the Labor Law Department was created and has been a partner since January 1, 2023. Alice advises and assists French and foreign companies and groups of companies, both in consulting and in litigation, on all aspects of labor and social security law. She has acquired a solid experience in social audits and restructurings. She advises clients in the day-to-day management of their individual and collective labor relations. Alice has developed a significant expertise in the press, audiovisual and entertainment sectors.

jasper Avocats

Alice ENDERLE

Partner

Valoris Avocats