Lawyers in France

Nicolas Durand-Gasselin

Nicolas Durand-Gasselin est associé gérant du cabinet TNDA qui est structuré sur un modèle qui insiste sur la discrétion des services rendus à ses clients en stratégie sociale et dans les contentieux complexes et sensibles en droit du travail.

TNDA Avocats

Nicolas Faguer

Nicolas Faguer focuses his practice on complex litigation, in particular in company law including conflicts between shareholders in post-acquisition litigation. He also has a wealth of experience in commercial litigation, as well as in pre-litigation matters, and in various form of alternative dispute resolution matters. Nicolas has represented several renowned insurers, audit firms, investment funds in connection with media litigation. He has defended many companies over the years in diverse industries such as telecom, pharmaceutical, IT services, energy and nursing homes. Read full biography: https://www.mwe.com/people/nicolas-faguer/

McDermott Will & Schulte

Nicolas Favre

Nicolas Favre, Partner, specialises in mergers and acquisitions, corporate law and securities law. He advises listed and unlisted companies in connection with French and cross-border transactions.

De Pardieu Brocas Maffei

Nicolas Laurent

Partner

Bredin Prat

Nicolas Le Guillou

Nicolas is a Partner in the Corporate/M&A practice of Linklaters Paris. He regularly advises financial sponsors, private equity houses, insurance companies and corporates on their M&A transactions, with a particular focus on energy and infrastructure sectors.

Linklaters

Nicolas Lefèvre

Counsel

LPA Law

Nicolas Léger

DLA Piper

Nicolas Mancret

Partner -Employment & Labour Law

Jeantet

Nicolas Message

Partner

FTPA

Nicolas Mordaunt-Crook

Nicolas has over 25 years of experience practicing banking and financial law and has extensive experience of the Industry, having supported a broad range of players: credit and payment institutions, investment firms, asset managers, insurance companies and financial intermediaries. He provides his clients advice and assistance relating to the provision of banking, investment, fund management and insurance services or financial intermediation, both from a regulatory and transactional perspective. Nicolas has extensive knowledge of laws and regulations that apply to different types of banking and financial activities in France and the EU, as well as of the procedures for obtaining relevant permissions or licences. His practice aims to address the needs of both local and international players : In the banking / payment services and capital markets space, he supports clients with initial set-ups (including applications for authorization and EU passport filings), the design and roll out of large-scale and cross-border, reorganizations, business cooperation / joint-venture schemes and marketing / product distribution arrangements. More generally, he provides technical advice relating to day-to-day business on a broad range of banking or capital markets related issues In the Asset Management area, he has long-standing experience with structuring AMF-authorized investment management companies and their funds, primarily in the alternative space (private equity and real estate areas in particular). He also advises foreign players on the marketing of their funds in France (alternative or UCITS), with due consideration given to local rules and constraints (112) In the Insurance sector, he supports both insurers and brokers, with particular focus on product-related regulatory and contractual issues, distribution schemes and reorganisation and / or merger of insurance companies.

Bird & Bird

Nicolas Moreau

Partner, Intellectual Property & New Technologies

Bignon Lebray

Nicolas Morelli

Nicolas advises on all stages of financial and industrial restructurings, from consensual workouts to litigation involving distressed companies.His practice covers insolvency law, both as an advisor and as a litigator. In addition, Nicolas has a strong expertise in complex commercial litigation.

Bird & Bird

Nicolas PALOS

Partner

Cornet Vincent Ségurel

Nicolas Partouche

Partner

Sekri Valentin Zerrouk

Nicolas Peixoto

Partner

Ogletree Deakins

Nicolas Planchot

Nicolas Planchot is a partner in Gide's Real Estate team in Paris. His practice covers real estate and corporate real estate. He works on all legal issues relating to the real estate industry, including transactions, vehicle structuring, leases and construction matters. His multi-disciplinary positioning enables him to support his clients throughout the lifecycle of their assets and to provide an operational response to their problems. His expertise extends to all asset classes (offices, retail, logistics, etc.), including the new asset classes that are driving the market (data centres, last-mile logistics, etc.). Nicolas' recent major clients include (in alphabetical order) Adia, Altarea, Apollo, Bain Capital, BC Partners, Brookfield, BNPPRE, ESR Europe, Experimental Group, GDG Investissements, Goldman Sachs, Greystar, Hemisphere, King Street, Nuveen, Paris2024, REI, TotalEnergies, TPG. In 2023, he advised Brookfield on the share deal to sell a building on the Champs-Elysées for around €1billion. This is one of the largest trophy asset transactions in recent years. Nicolas was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2006.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Nicolas Privat

Partner

Mermoz Avocats

Nicolas Quoy

Partner

Ashurst LLP

Nicolas Renevier

Partner

CLEACH Avocats

Nicolas Riou

Nicolas Riou joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2000 and became a partner in 2019. He practices in direct taxation, advising French and foreign multinationals on all aspects of tax management and strategy. He advises clients on implementing Pillar 2 rules, in the context of acquisitions and restructuring operations, and assists them during tax audits and tax litigation. Nicolas Riou also advises senior managers on personal and asset planning tax.

CMS Francis Lefebvre

Nicolas Spitz

Nicolas Spitz is one of the leading regulatory lawyers in Paris. He is a specialist in financial regulatory matters and has been involved in some of the most important transactional regulatory matters in France recently. He has developed significant expertise on regulatory requirements relating to derivatives and structured products (EMIR). Nicolas also represents banks and financial institutions in regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings before the ECB/AMF/ACPR and judicial disputes before the French courts. He has held teaching positions at leading French universities or at ESSEC Business School and has also published extensively on financial markets and banking regulation.

Spitz Poulle Kannan

Nicolas Tollet

Nicolas Tollet joined the CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2025. He assists his clients with internal investigations, regulatory inspections such as AFA controls , monitoring, due diligence, and compliance audits around the world (Ukraine, Romania, Italy, Venezuela, Brazil, Mexico, Jordan, South Korea, Bangladesh, Southeast Asia, etc.), in the areas of anti-corruption, duty of care & Human rights, economic sanctions, export control and anti-money laundering. A certified CSRD auditor, he also advises companies in the drafting of their sustainability report. Nicolas Tollet has 20 years of experience in the legal and compliance field, from the very first landmark investigations relating to the US FCPA involving French companies in the 2000s, to more recent cases involving French and foreign authorities. He previously worked for nine years at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP where he was a partner, and before that, five years at Technip where he worked as Vice President Compliance, based between France and Brazil, in the context of the very first monitoring of a French company, then in the context of the Car Wash case. Nicolas Tollet, then at Technip, received the Gold Trophy for the best compliance program in 2016, and was the only Frenchman selected among the 38 global specialists in internal investigations by the Global Investigation Review (GIR-InHouse) in 2017. He is also ranked Tier 1 and Leading Individual in the Legal 500, as well as by Chambers Partners and Best Lawers. In 2024, he is nominated among the Top 40 Legal Voices by Lamy.

CMS Francis Lefebvre

Nicolas Vanderchmitt

Partner

LPA Law

Nicolas Zacharie

Nicolas Zacharie specialises in European and French Competition Law work, especially the aspects relating to merger regulations, anticompetitive practices (horizontal agreements/cartels, vertical agreements and abuse of a dominant position) as well as in State Aid. He represents his clients before the European Commission and the French Competition Authority and before European and national jurisdictions. Nicolas Zacharie has been involved in a number of complex national and cross-border transactions. He advised in particular Sanofi during a tentative joint venture with Merck regarding their animal health business and he currently works on the major asset swap whereby Boehringer Ingelheim’s Consumer Healthcare business would be transferred to Sanofi in exchange for Sanofi’s animal health business. He also regularly advises large groups and investment funds. Nicolas Zacharie also advises clients in the field of anticompetitive practices by providing guidance during the implementation of commercial strategies (such as Sanofi, Sanofi-Pasteur and AXA as regards cooperation and joint ventures) and in the implementation of compliance programmes. He contributes within the framework of their disputes (notably PSA and Sanofi). He has also assisted several clients when competition authority dawn raids have been carried out and during the procedural steps which follow thereafter, including within the framework of leniency procedures. As regards to State Aid, he has advised several large groups such as the Caisse des Dépôts or Engie. Nicolas Zacharie lectures in Competition Law at the Paris Dauphine University, at Sciences Po and frequently organises training seminars for his clients

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