Lawyers in France

Pierre-Olivier Brouard

Partner, head of Corporate law department

Alerion

Pierre-Olivier Sur

PARTNER

FTMS Avocats

Pierre-Sébastien Thill

Pierre-Sébastien Thill joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1984 and became a partner in 1993. He is Chairman of the CMS Executive Committee. He practices in international tax law with a particular focus on mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisations, and structuring of investment funds.

CMS Francis Lefebvre

Pierre-Yves Chabert

Pierre-Yves Chabert’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and securities regulation.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Pierre-Yves Rossignol

Pierre-Yves Rossignol is a partner in the property and the insurance department. He works with building owners, industrialists and construction professionals and advises them in carrying out their property development and investment projects. He provides support in contentious matters including warrantee claims against insurers including those brought through collective procedures. He advises clients in preparing complex assemblies of their real estate operations, and assists foreign clients in structuring their investments in France, from pre-acquisition due diligence (the analysis of legal risks) to the conclusion of negotiations.

Herald Avocats

Pierrick Le Goff

Firm Partner, Pierrick Le Goff focuses his practice mainly on international arbitration, major infrastructure projects, and compliance. He is also involved in various areas of international business law linked to these fields (equity joint ventures, consortium structures, technology transfers, sales and distribution agreements, subcontracting, etc.). Before joining De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés in 2019, Pierrick Le Goff was Group General Counsel of Alstom (2015-2019), a multinational corporation in which he has also held the function of General Counsel of the transport sector (2011-2015) as well as various positions in the energy sector in England, Germany and the German-speaking part of Switzerland (1994-2011). He had previously started his career in Paris in 1992 with a business law firm. His significant in-house career has enabled him to acquire a strong international expertise as well as a solid understanding of the industrial world and of major energy and transport construction projects. He has also been exposed regularly to claims management activities and the handling of disputes arising from projects execution. Finally, he has been involved in the management of compliance matters in relation with financial institutions and foreign judicial authorities (DOJ, SFO), the monitoring of due diligence reviews and internal investigations, and the follow-up of arbitration proceedings with commercial agents. In this context, he has gained a notable experience in the implementation of advanced ethics and compliance programs. In particular, Alstom became in 2017 the first company in France to be certified ISO 37001 for its anticorruption management system. This initiative has led him to receive on behalf of his legal and compliance team the Gold Trophy 2017 of the most innovative Legal Department by Leaders League. Pierrick Le Goff is an affiliate professor at Sciences Po Law School in Paris and serves as adjunct faculty member at the University of Marburg in Germany. His teaching and speaker activities focus on international commercial law, international litigation and arbitration, international construction law, corporate social responsibility as well as ethics & compliance. He has written his doctoral thesis on the topic of liquidated damages and penalty clauses in international contracts for the construction of industrial plants.

De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés

Pinar Turgut

Partner

FTPA

Privat Vigand

Partner

Dechert LLP

Prudence Cadio

Partner

LPA Law

Qian Hu

Partner

Jones Day

Quentin Charluteau

Quentin specialises in dispute resolution and insurance law. His experience in these fields covers product liability, breach of contract, and insurance law both in dispute (Professional Indemnity, Financial lines, D&O) and regulatory matters (compliance, regulator investigations, review of policies).

Simmons & Simmons

Quentin Chassany

A lawyer since 2011, Quentin Chassany provides cross-disciplinary support to public and private project developers on land use planning issues, both in urban planning and public procurement. He advises them on regulatory (local urban planning) and operational (review and issuance of urban planning permits) urban planning matters, as well as on the implementation of large-scale projects. In litigation, he appears before administrative, civil, and criminal courts (urban planning offenses). Quentin Chassany also advises them on all matters relating to public procurement and complex contracts. His experience enables him to understand all the legal aspects of a project: assessing needs, identifying innovative solutions, providing legal certainty, competitive bidding, and concluding and executing contracts. He also has recognized expertise in local public service management and acts as a project management assistant in many areas, including public water services, sanitation, and beach services (ZMEL, beaches). Quentin Chassany regularly leads training sessions on urban planning and public procurement for his clients (elected officials, civil servants).

Adaltys Avocats

Quentin Cournot

Partner

Racine

Quentin Dreyfus

Quentin Dreyfus is an associate in the Investigations and White Collar Defense practice. He is based in the Paris office. Quentin represents corporate entities and individuals at all stages of criminal proceedings. His expertise covers all types of technical criminal litigation, in particular environmental damage, collective accidents cases, and breaches of probity. Quentin also advises major international companies on the French duty of vigilance and during internal investigations. A member of the Paris and New York bars, Quentin practiced banking and financial regulatory law in leading French firms and has gained excellent knowledge of the European financial regulatory environment, including sanctions.

Paul Hastings LLP

Quentin FRISONI

Partner

FACTORHY

Quentin Leroux

Partner of BG2V since 2012. Quentin specializes in the acquisition and disposal of real estate assets or companies with a preponderance of real estate, joint ventures and development and financing operations (borrower side). He is also involved in asset management and frequently assists owners and users in their rental relationships.

BG2V

Quentin Renaud

Squair

Quentin Untermaier

Quentin Untermaier has been a lawyer at the Lyon Bar since 2014. He works on issues related to environmental law, urban planning, and development. He advises local authorities and private operators, particularly on aspects related to environmental assessment procedures and public participation. He also handles cases involving classified facilities (ICPE), waste law, polluted sites and soils, water and hydroelectricity policing, nature protection, and coastal law, both in an advisory capacity and in litigation. Quentin Untermaier teaches environmental law as part of the Master 2 Bioévaluation des écosystèmes et expertise de la biodiversité (BEEB) program at Claude Bernard Lyon 1 University and as part of the Master 2 “Risque et Environnement” program at Lyon 2 University. He also provides training in environmental law as part of the initial and continuing education of student lawyers and lawyers at EDARA.

Adaltys Avocats

Quirec de Kersauson

Partner

White & Case LLP

Quitterie d'Arche

Partner Lawyer

Borrel d’Arche

Rachel Campbell

Both English and French law qualified, Rachel has almost 20 years’ experience advising on energy, natural resources and infrastructure finance. She regularly acts for banks and trading houses, sponsors and project developers on a wide range of international transactions, including trade and commodity finance, oil and gas, metals and mining, ECA finance and renewables. She has a strong emerging markets practice, with a special focus on Africa. She has worked for international law firms in London, Amsterdam and Paris and was seconded to the energy and commodities, export and projects legal team of a French Bank from 2008-2009. Rachel is an ESSEC MBA graduate and holds a Bachelor of Law and French from Trinity College Dublin and a Master’s in business law from Paris I Pantheon-Sorbonne.

Watson Farley & Williams LLP

Rafael Dezelee Roque

Associate

Ogletree Deakins

Rahel Wendebourg

Associate

White & Case LLP

Rajeev Sharma Fokeer

Partner

FTPA