Lawyers in France

Simon Bernard

Simon Bernard is an Associate in Dentons Paris Real Estate group. He focuses his practice on Real Estate leases, construction, Real Estate transactions and litigation.

Dentons

Simon Charbit

DLA Piper

Simon Cudennec

Partner

Bracewell LLP

Simon Dievart

Avocat à la Cour, Simon is a Partner in our Global M&A and Capital practice. His main areas of expertise are corporate law, private equity and public and private mergers and acquisitions. His experience includes both domestic and cross-border transactions.

Freshfields LLP

Simon Greenberg

Simon Greenberg is in Clifford Chance's international arbitration group. Simon advises on transnational dispute management and acts as both counsel and as arbitrator in international arbitrations taking place all around the world. He has over 22 years' experience in the field. Simon's experience covers numerous governing laws and seats of arbitration and a range of dispute types and business sectors. In recent years his practice has focused on mining, metals and energy, aviation (in particular helicopters) and telecoms/technology. He also has unparalleled experience of disputes involving allegations of corruption, illegality and/or the breach of anti-bribery and corruption rules. Simon is co-chair of Clifford Chance's global Mining and Metals Sector group. He is also a part time judge of the commercial division of the Supreme Court of Bahrain. Simon spent four years as Deputy Secretary General of the ICC International Court of Arbitration (2008-2012) followed by six years as a Court Member (for Australia) of the ICC International Court of Arbitration. He is a member of the ICC Commission on Arbitration since 2007. He is the Chair of ICC Australia's arbitrator Nominations Commission since July 2022. From 2013 to 2016 Simon represented the Australian Government at the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law. Simon is a lecturer at the Institute of Political Science of Paris (Sciences Po) since 2008, a visiting professor of international commercial arbitration at Hong Kong University since 2010, and a regular speaker at arbitration conferences. He has published more than 30 journal articles and two books relating to international arbitration.

Clifford Chance

Simon Le Wita

Simon is a partner in the Litigation and Dispute Resolution group of Charles Russell Speechlys in Paris, specialising in domestic and international commercial, banking and financial litigation and arbitration as well as in debt restructuring insolvency and bankruptcy proceedings, particularly within the framework of international transactions. He advises French and foreign corporations, in all industry sectors, credit institutions, investment funds as well as insurers, property companies, lease-finance and factoring institutions and suppliers. Simon is regularly involved in shareholders and post-acquisition disputes as well as in enforcement and asset recovery cases. Simon has also an active practice in alternative dispute resolution and litigation avoidance, assisting his clients with risk management and strategic advice. Simon is a graduate from ESSEC and holds an advanced degree (DEA) in business law and economics from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. Simon is admitted to the Paris bar.

Charles Russell Speechlys

Simon Rey

Adaltys Avocats

Simon Rolin

Simon Rolin joined the firm in 2019 and has since played an instrumental role in the development of its litigation and advisory practice particularly in relation to the primary art market and artists’ estate planning. He became Partner in 2026.

Fournol & Associés

Simonetta Giordano

Simonetta has wide-ranging expertise in transactions taking place in a regulated environment, such as HealthCare and Life Science, Financial Institutions, Energy and Infrastructure or Consumer Goods. Very committed in getting the deal through, she is particularly skilled at sorting out complex situations through efficient project management. Franco-Italian citizen, she is fluent in Italian but also in English and French and speaks Spanish. Simonetta is a partner in our Corporate group in Paris. She focuses on regulated industries, advising on transactional private M&A and joint ventures but also on complex corporate reorganisations and commercial contracts. Considering her international DNA, as she is Franco-Italian citizen and speaks Italian, English, French and Spanish, she is mainly involved in cross border transactions. She knows the HealthCare and Life Science sector inside out and helps both industrials and investors structuring their investment through the regulatory constraints of this industry, from healthcare services to pharmaceuticals, medical devices, cosmetics or digital health. As a specialist of corporate reorganisations, she delivers large cross border projects for financial institutions and funds but also day to day matters including Brexit reorganisations. Simonetta also advises on corporate aspects of international projects, mainly in the power sector across the African continent. Passionate about understanding her clients’ industry, Simonetta has completed secondments to a global IT company and a French electric utility. She joined Simmons & Simmons in 2016 from a magic circle firm. Simonetta is a member of the firm's Accelerate Digital group, focused on guiding clients through digital transformation.

Simmons & Simmons

Smaïn Guennad

Lawyer - Partner

De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés

Solenn Grall

Solenn Grall leads the firm's practice dedicated to the associative and foundation sector. She advises and represents numerous non-profit organizations in court. Before joining the firm, Solenn worked for seven years at the French Committee for the United Nations Children's Fund. Since then, she has acquired a real expertise in the field of donations (legacies, gifts and life insurance) granted to non-profit organizations. She also worked for several years in the Health/Life Sciences team, where she was involved in health law and personal injury compensation, before civil, administrative and criminal courts.

jasper Avocats

Soline Louvigny

Soline Louvigny is a partner at Dentons' Paris office and a member of the Banking and Finance group. She advises on capital markets transactions involving debt securities issuances. Soline advises clients on a wide range of debt securities issuances (in particular vanilla and structured issuances, issuances eligible for regulatory capital, and ESG issuances), debt securities buybacks (liability management), bondholder consultations (consent solicitations), and regulatory issues relating to these debt securities (including benchmark and ESG regulations). She assists clients in developing issuance programs that meet their needs while complying with legal requirements. She advises major French and international banks and issuers in various jurisdictions and across multiple sectors on this type of transaction and works in particular with credit institutions, companies, insurance companies, and issuers of covered bonds (real estate credit companies). She has specialized in this sector for over 15 years and is widely recognized in the market. She regularly comments on new regulations (e.g., ESG issues).

Dentons

Solène Delafond

Solène Delafond assists French and foreign companies, both listed and unlisted, as well as their shareholders or the management team, in complex strategic litigation, mainly in commercial, financial, or corporate matters. In particular, she is specialized in post-acquisition litigation and disputes related to governance crises. Solène Delafond regularly pleads before civil and commercial courts. She joined Hoche Avocats after having created her own law firm and after having worked for eight years with the business law firms Rossi Bordes & Associés, then Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier.

HOCHE AVOCATS

Solën Guézille

Partner

Squadra Avocats

Sonia Abodja

NMCG Avocats

Sonia CODAZZI

Sonia is passionate about the legal field, whilst seeking to adapt it to individuals’ specific needs (with a “pragmatic” approach). A collaborator in our business law department, she joined SPARK where she completed her final internship as part of her training at the Paris lawyers’ school.

Spark Avocats

Sonia Cissé

Sonia is heading the Technology, Media and Telecommunications team of Linklaters in Paris. Sonia’s practice covers the full range of TMT legal areas, with a focus on contracts, data protection, internet and telecommunications. Sonia has strong experience in advising companies from diversified sectors (IT editors and service providers, banking, insurance, transportation, telecom, energy, retail, luxe, etc.) across all aspects of major commercial contracts, sourcing and complex procurement transactions, regulation of data and networks, e-business and IT security, telecoms and media projects. Her experience has led her to advise on both service providers and clients’ sides.

Linklaters

Sonia De Kondserovsky

DLA Piper

Sonia Rogez

Of Counsel, Paris

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Sonia Saadi

Associate

CGR Avocats

Sophie Brézin

Partner, Paris

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Sophie Cornette de Saint Cyr

Partner

Bredin Prat

Sophie Dechaumet

Partner - Labor & Employment

Winston Taylor

Sophie Erignac-Godefroy

Trained in civil law with a specialisation in real estate law, Sophie Erignac-Godefroy deals with acquisitions of real estate properties (by carrying out rental situation audits in particular), negotiations of leases and their amendments, their renewal or their termination, but also gets involved in relationships with the organizations involved in the property (e.g.: condominium, AFUL) as well as real estate and building trade professionals. Sophie Erignac-Godefroy will also represent her clients with their litigations on all aspects of the life of their property and assist them with legal assessments. In general terms, she assists with civil and commercial litigations, paying special attention to ensuring that protection measures are taken upstream and taking care of enforcement once a decision has been obtained. It is on the solid experience she has acquired in dealing with complex litigations that is based the advice she gives her clients to assist them in their contractual negotiations.

UGGC Avocats