Lawyers in France

Sophie Guilhem-Ducléon

Sophie Guilhem-Ducléon specialises in international and domestic securitisations, in structured finance transactions and derivates. Sophie advises both financial institutions and borrowers.

Clifford Chance

Sophie Jouniaux

Partner

FTPA

Sophie Laporte

Squadra Avocats

Sophie Lippmann

Partner

Littler France

Sophie Lok

DLA Piper

Sophie Marinier

Partner

LPA Law

Sophie Nguyen

Partner - Corporate

Winston Taylor

Sophie PELICIER-LOEVENBRUCK

Partner - Fromont Briens

Fromont Briens

Sophie Pasquesoone

Partner

Racine

Sophie Pelé

Partner

Dechert LLP

Sophie Scemla

Sophie Scemla is a partner in the Litigation team in Paris. She specialises in corporate criminal law, investigations, compliance and human rights and ESG litigation. She advises on complex French and international litigation, particularly in the areas of fraud, tax fraud, money laundering, international corruption, international sanctions, human rights violations and due diligence. Sophie also assists her clients in conducting internal investigations in France, Africa and Asia and helps them set up compliance programmes and undergo audits by the AFA. It assists them in conducting internal investigations in France and abroad. She also assists clients in negotiating and concluding negotiated agreements, such as Public Interest Judicial Agreements « CJIP » and « Deferred Prosecution Agreement », in particular with the PNF, the US authorities, multilateral development banks and foreign authorities. With dual qualifications at the Paris and New York Bars, she has represented French and foreign companies and their directors in domestic and international corruption cases.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Sophie Troussard-Fauré

Counsel

Bredin Prat

Sophie Uettwiller

Sophie Uettwiller is an outstanding practitioner and works on many of our most sensitive and complex collective matters. Sophie heads the employment law department and is regularly asked by clients to provide training on negotiations with personnel representatives all over France. HER EXPERTISE IN EMPLOYMENT LAW: - Strategic advice on employment unions negotiations - Strategy for approaching relations with employee representatives regarding company restructuring or reorganization - Massive workforce reduction plans, redundancies and voluntary departures plans - Employment litigation linked to the application of legal or contractual regulations - Employee benefits - Social mediation - International employment law - Working time issues - Social security law issues - Negotiation of top managers’ departures

UGGC Avocats

Sophie Weiss

Sophie is a managing associate in the firm’s Paris office structured finance and securitisation practice notably involved in international structured finance and securitisation transactions. Sophie has extensive experience advising on the structuring and documentation of derivatives, repos and securities lending transactions. She has a strong focus on OTC derivatives and advises both sponsors’ and banks’ sides on hedging of major project finance transactions.

Linklaters

Sophie de Beer

Sophie de Beer’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions as well as on general corporate, financial, and banking regulatory matters. Her experience includes private and public cross-border merger and acquisitions, partnerships, and transactions involving financial institutions such as banks, asset managers, and insurance companies. She is advising clients on corporate and regulatory aspects of their transactions.

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Sophie-Anaïs Papafilippou

Sophie-Anaïs has been nominated as a partner of the firm since 1st january 2023.

Aerige Avocats

Sophie-Jeanne Laroche

Counsel, Sophie-Jeanne Laroche represents French and foreign clients before national courts in a wide range of complex financial, commercial and corporate litigation (in particular shareholder’s and post-acquisition disputes) often in an international context. She provides strategic advices in pre-litigation or litigation phases for companies handling complex crisis and sensitive disputes. Sophie Jeanne advises her clients on prevention and anticipation conflicts and is actively involved in the development of alternative dispute resolution mechanisms such as mediation. Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2006, Sophie Jeanne received a Master’s Degree (DEA) in Droit Privé Général from University of Paris II Panthéon- Assas and a second Master’s Degree (DEA) in Droit des Affaires et de l’Economie from University Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne. Sophie Jeanne joined the firm in 2006 and became counsel in 2015. She has been lecturer on civil law at Paris I, Panthéon Sorbonne.

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

Souâde Messaoudi

Senior Associate

Norton Rose Fulbright

Stanislas CURIEN

Spécialisé en droit bancaire et financier, Stanislas assiste régulièrement des entreprises françaises ou étrangères et des fonds d’investissement, mais aussi d’institutions financières ou fonds de dette. Il participera à la mise en place des crédits bancaires syndiqués ou financements obligatoires (Unitranche / EuroPP) dans le cadre d’opérations de private equity / LBO.

Ollyns

Stanislas Lequette

Partner

HFW

Stanislas Richoillez

Partner of BG2V since 2011 Member of the Paris Bar since 2002 Stanislas assists BG2V’s clients in all their investment, development and equity strengthening operations: company acquisitions/disposals, fund raising, joint ventures, partnerships, acquisitions/disposals of assets, branches of activity or business, etc. Its clients are French companies of all sizes and investment funds. He has particular expertise in the agribusiness sector (joint ventures, acquisitions, investments, etc.), in education and transport. In addition, he assists the firm’s clients in litigation involving corporate law issues: post-acquisition litigation, enforcement of warranties, conflicts between partners, etc.

BG2V

Stanislas Roux-Vaillard

Partner

Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP

Steeve Jaskierowicz

Steeve Jaskierowicz is a counsel in the Dentons Paris Banking & Finance practice group. He focuses on French and cross-border banking and finance transactions, including the financing and refinancing aspects regarding restructuring, LBO, acquisition/ corporate and real estate finance. Steeve has been involved in numerous and complex financing transactions, including lending and/or bond financings, whether for SMEs, ETIs or large cap companies. He advises both debtors and creditors in numerous industry sectors, such as food retail, automotive, new technologies, agriculture, construction, heavy industries, transport, hotels and real estate.

Dentons

Stella Alessandrini

A member of the Paris Bar, Stella’s practice focuses on criminal law, in particular white-collar crime and business litigation. ​ She has significant experience with shareholders’ disputes involving white-collar crime and emergency court procedures regarding the collection of evidence (art. 145 CPC).​ Prior to joining our firm, she trained with several leading US, British and French law firms, and practiced as an associate in the litigation team of a leading French law firm. ​ Stella is a graduate of Paris II Panthéon-Assas University (Master in International Business Law), Rennes University (Magister of Franco-British lawyer) and the University of Exeter (LL.M. International Commercial Law).​ In 2022, she won the Albert Joly award for the best public speaker at the Versailles Bar School (HEDAC) as well as the Young European Lawyers Contest.

TALMA Dispute Resolution