Lawyers in France

Anne-Marie Lacoste

Partner

Eversheds Sutherland

Anne-Marie Pecoraro

With 30 years of experience serving clients of all sizes and types (corporate groups, multinationals, start-ups, associations, trade unions, foundations, artists, fashion designers, production companies, etc.), Anne-Marie Pecoraro has been advising and litigating on all legal aspects of intellectual property, trademarks, information and digital technologies and data protection. She assists clients in a wide range of sectors including notably film, audiovisual and radio, media funding, performances, theatre and events, music (in which she is has undeniable expertise and a recognized practice since UGGC Avocats is ranked tier 1 by the Legal 500), literary, media companies, press, photography, image, reputation and crisis communication, innovation, multimedia, internet, and platforms, CSR communication, sustainable development, compliance, sport, e-sport, gaming and betting. She also advises prestigious French and international clients, particularly in the United States, Europe (Paris, Milan, Rome, Brussels) and Asia (China, Hong Kong, Singapore). Furthermore, throughout her experience, Anne-Marie has also developed cross-disciplinary skills, particularly in the strategic support of communication programs.

FIDAL

Anne-Solène Gay

Owner and managing partner

Behring

Anne-Sophie Cepoi-Demouzon

Of Counsel

Ogletree Deakins

Anne-Sophie Coustel

Anne-Sophie Coustel’s practice focuses on French and international tax law as well as complex reorganizations and M&A transactions. She also has extensive experience with employee stock offerings, employee benefit plans and management incentive packages.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Anne-Sophie Goapper

Partner

Aliénor Avocats

Anne-Sophie LE FUR

Partner

Cornet Vincent Ségurel

Anne-Sophie Lampe

Anne-Sophie is a partner based in our Paris office, with 15 years' experience in the technology sector. She specialises in IT and Internet litigation, and works for both tech companies and end-user clients. She is passionate about the technology sector because of its relentless innovation. In addition to her practice in IT litigation, she is also interested in market trends, such as the ongoing digital transformation of companies, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and specifically the challenges related to generative AI. Additionally, Anne-Sophie closely follows the increasing regulations surrounding platforms, which are inevitably leading to complex legal disputes. She is passionate about understanding our clients' businesses to better serve them. She loves to impart information, so she teaches in two different Masters 2, dedicated to Digital creation law, as well as organising training for Numeum (formerly Syntec Numérique, a union of IT service providers) and writing articles.

Bird & Bird

Anne-Sophie Lilti

Squair

Anne-Sophie Maes

Anne-Sophie Maes focuses her French tax practice on tax audits and controversies, transfer pricing and tax aspects of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions. She also has extensive experience advising clients on financings, capital markets transactions and employee offerings.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Anne-Sophie Noury

Partner

White & Case LLP

Anne-Sophie Rostaing

Anne-Sophie Rostaing joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2002 and became a partner in 2016. She practices in direct taxation, particularly corporate taxation (acquisitions, restructuring, tax consolidation, tax audits and tax litigation), and property tax (for property funds such as SIICs, SCPIs and OPCIs). Her main clients include REITs, real estate management companies, real estate developers, privately-owned real estate groups, as well as large French and international groups operating mainly in the industrial, construction and insurance sectors.

CMS Francis Lefebvre

Annette LUDEMANN-OBER

Partner

Valoris Avocats

Annette Péron

Annette Péron is a partner in the Corporate & Financial Services Department, focusing on private equity, mergers & acquisitions, leveraged buy-outs, and corporate finance. Annette regularly advises companies on cross-border joint ventures.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Annie Maudouit

Partner - Capital Market

Winston Taylor

Anthony Giustini

Tony Giustini is the senior partner of our global energy, infrastructure and projects practices. His global practice covers investment, development and finance transactions in the power, renewables, sustainability, clean hydrogen, oil and gas, petrochemical, mining, and infrastructure sectors. He served for years as head of the firm's Worldwide Projects Group and Africa Group. Tony is also the leader of the Clean Hydrogen Taskforce (CHT), a group of Clifford Chance lawyers around the globe following the latest in clean H2 regulation, transaction structuring and market developments. Over more than three decades, Tony has represented developers, investors and lenders in many multisource, complex energy, infrastructure and industrial projects in a variety of sectors, in Europe, Africa and other emerging markets. These include oil and gas pipelines, renewables (including geothermal), gas (including renewable natural gas) and coal fired power plants, LNG, mining and transportation projects. Most recently, he has led or worked on teams assisting clients on several (including GW-scale) clean H2 matters, including in Spain, France, The Netherlands, Morocco and Namibia. As the CHT leader, Tony brainstorms with market players across the upstream, midstream and downstream of the emerging clean H2 value chain, including developers, offtakers, regulators, investors, and lenders. Tony has several notable rankings, including Chambers (Chambers & Partners) Band 1 in Project & Energy France, and Project Finance Africa-wide. He is also listed in the Legal500 (Legalease Ltd.) Hall of Fame, and IFLR (Delinian Ltd.) across several categories.

Clifford Chance

Anthony Paronneau

Anthony Paronneau is a partner, he advises clients on all aspects of corporate and business law, with a particular focus on pharmaceutical, medical device, biotech and health care industries. Anthony has significant experience advising life sciences companies, private equity funds and venture capital firms on a number of merger and acquisition (M&A) and private equity transactions, including acquisitions, financing rounds, joint ventures and divestitures. He also regularly advises life sciences companies on collaborations, licensing and distribution arrangements. For further details of Anthony's biography, please view McDermott website here.

McDermott Will & Schulte

Antoine Arminjon

Partner, Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions - Litigation & Arbitration

Bignon Lebray

Antoine Benoit

Partner - Employment Law & Social protection

Bignon Lebray

Antoine Bonnasse

Partner specializing in complex mergers and acquisitions (listed and unlisted companies), corporate and financial engineering, industrial restructurings, securities law, private equity and M&A litigation. Antoine Bonnasse has recently represented L’Oréal on the acquisition of Kering Beauté; Merit France on its acquisition of a minority stake in Carrefour; Groupe ADIT on its 5th LBO, marked by the entry of a pool of new investors (UI, Covea, MACSF, Florac, Impala, Stags, Weinberg CP and Isalt) alongside existing investors (Sagard, Parquest, Bpifrance and Amundi); Louis Dreyfus Armateurs and the Louis Dreyfus family on the sale of a majority stake in Louis Dreyfus Armateurs to InfraVia; Safran and Safran Ceramics on the sale by Safran Ceramics of its stake in Roxel; Icade on the sale of its stake in Icade Santé to Primonial REIM; the shareholders of Cedys & Co, main shareholder of Evolis, and Evolis on the acquisition by HID Global of all shares of Evolis and the subsequent simplified public tender offer by HID Global for the remaining shares of Evolis; Sopra Steria and Sopra GMT on the sale by Sopra Steria to Axway of Sopra Banking Software and the sale by Sopra Steria to Sopra GMT of a block of Axway shares and Sopra Steria on its public tender offer for CS Group; Butler Industries on the acquisition of a majority stake in MOMA group; Publicis on its joint venture with Carrefour in the retail media sector; Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC) on the creation of "New Suez" by a consortium composed of Meridiam, Global Infrastructure Partners and CDC; Bouygues Telecom on certain joint ventures; the Agence des Participations de l'Etat on the recapitalisation of Air France-KLM; and Bpifrance on the reorganisation of the shareholding of Paprec.

BDGS Associés

Antoine Boullet

Senior Associate

Ashurst LLP

Antoine Bouzanquet

Antoine Bouzanquet is Partner in the Corporate and Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris. He focuses on the development and financing of energy and infrastructure projects, in France and abroad. Antoine advises a broad spectrum of market players, including sponsors (industrial sponsors and investment funds) and lenders (commercial banks and institutional investors), on complex greenfield and brownfield energy/infrastructure-related private equity, M&A or project development and financing transactions. Over the past few years, Antoine has been involved as main legal advisor in numerous high-profile transactions in the telecom, transport and energy sectors and has earned a reputation of problem-solving and success-oriented lawyer, with a combination of robust technical skills and strong business acumen. Before joining Willkie in 2015, Antoine worked as an associate at Mayer Brown where he advised on LBO and real estate transactions. He also gained experience in capital markets in a leading French bank. Admitted to the Paris Bar, Antoine graduated from the University of Paris 2 – Assas and the University of Oxford in business law. He also graduated from ESCP Europe, where he received a degree in management and finance. A native French speaker, Antoine is fluent in English.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Antoine Camus

Partner

LERINS

Antoine Colonna d’Istria

Partner

Norton Rose Fulbright