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- Firm Details - Managing Partner: Jeffrey Karpf - Number of partners worldwide: 220+ - Number of lawyers worldwide: Approximately 1,200 - Languages: Multilingual; the firm’s lawyers speak 60 different languages ### Firm Overview Cleary Gottlieb is a pioneer in globalizing the legal profession. Since 1946, the firm’s lawyers and staff have worked across practices, industries, jurisdictions, and continents to provide clients with simple, actionable approaches to their most complex legal and business challenges. The firm has 14 offices in major financial centers around the world. Cleary, however, operates as a single, integrated global partnership, not a U.S. firm with a network of overseas locations. The firm is fluent in the many languages of local and global business, and Cleary’s consistent success in multiple jurisdictions continuously earns Cleary “International law Firms of the Year” awards by Chambers and Partners. The firm employs approximately 1,200 lawyers from more than 50 countries and diverse backgrounds who are admitted to practice in numerous jurisdictions. Cleary was among the first international law firms to hire and promote non-U.S. lawyers as equal partners around the world. The firm’s international platform bolsters its inclusion and culture – something that is central to Cleary’s founding principles and ongoing identity. Cleary believes that its lawyers benefit from interacting with the creativity, talents, and perspectives of people from different backgrounds and experiences, and that its efforts to nurture perspectives from all backgrounds better serves its clients. Cleary offers clients robust experience in more than 70 practice areas. All of Cleary’s clients enjoy access to the full resources of its offices and lawyers worldwide, and many of the firm’s attorneys have served in one or more of its offices. ### Main Practice Areas ### Corporate Cleary Gottlieb advises clients on a broad range of transactional matters that protect and advance their strategic goals. Its lawyers have crafted solutions resulting in numerous first-of-its-kind deals, as well as some of the largest, most complex transactions involving cross-border issues. Cleary’s transactional practice spans mergers, acquisitions, and joint ventures; capital markets, derivatives, structured finance, and debt finance; private equity transactions, private fund formation, privatizations, project finance, banking, bankruptcy and restructuring, real estate, energy, financial technology, infrastructure, sovereign governments, sustainability, global crisis management, international trade, and more. Additionally, the firm’s lawyers have robust knowledge of the myriad corporate governance, intellectual property, and related issues that companies and their boards face. ### Dispute Resolution With the increasingly global nature of disputes, Cleary Gottlieb helps clients navigate through their most challenging adversarial issues. Cleary’s engagements frequently involve complex legal issues that require novel solutions and cross-border coordination of the firm’s varied resources, allowing Cleary to pair its renowned corporate, regulatory, and financial experience with its litigation prowess. Cleary handles litigation and arbitration involving a wide range of matters, including securities, M&A, shareholder derivative claims, general commercial disputes, intellectual property, antitrust, bankruptcy, white-collar crime, anticorruption, sovereign debt, investment treaties, and public international law. ### Regulatory The global regulatory landscape is ever-changing. Cleary Gottlieb lawyers bring a wealth of experience to proactively advise clients on emerging issues and navigate increasing regulatory scrutiny. This includes matters related to transactions and potential risks that can lead to litigation or enforcement action. The firm has significant experience in such areas as antitrust, issues unique to financial institutions, cybersecurity and privacy, environmental law, foreign direct investment and sanctions, tax, and compliance. In Europe, the firm’s lawyers include former officials of the European Court of Justice, the General Court, and the European Commission. The U.S. team includes former senior officials of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Antitrust Division, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. ### Offices - USA New York, Bay Area, San Francisco, Washington, D.C. - EUROPE & THE MIDDLE EAST - Abu Dhabi, Brussels, Cologne, London, Milan, Paris, Rome - ASIA PACIFIC - Hong Kong, Seoul - LATIN AMERICA - São Paulo

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Paris

Paris

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton 2 Rue Meyerbeer 75009 Paris Paris France

Practice areas

Corporate LawMergers and AcquisitionsCapital MarketsPrivate EquityBanking and FinanceRestructuring and InsolvencyProject FinanceReal EstateEnergyFinancial TechnologyInternational TradeDispute Resolution

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Amélie Champsaur

Amélie Champsaur’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and investigations, particularly in the financial sector. Amélie leads the firm’s EU financial regulatory practice and is active in the fast developing area of EU-level financial regulation, advising EU and non-EU banks, infrastructures, sovereigns, investment funds, and other market participants on a broad range of matters, including prudential regulation, governance and compliance (including cyber-security), bank resolution, state aid in the financial sector, and derivatives regulation, in the context of M&A, capital markets transactions, emerging risks, ESG, as well as enforcement and litigation. She has also advised clients on the cross-border aspects of U.S. regulatory reforms, enforcement, and litigation matters, including on privacy matters. · Mergers and Acquisitions

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Andrew Bernstein

Andrew A. Bernstein’s practice focuses on capital markets and transactions for sovereigns. Andrew’s practice has a dual focus. A significant part of his practice involves international securities offerings by French companies, including initial public offerings, other equity offerings, bank regulatory capital securities, high-yield bonds and investment-grade debt sold in the U.S. market. He also regularly represents sovereigns and state-owned companies in international transactions, particularly oil and gas projects and financings, as well as disputes. · Capital Markets

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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. · French Tax Law

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Antoine Winckler

Antoine Winckler’s practice focuses on European and French competition law, including cartel investigations, merger control, and market dominance. He has advised clients in numerous cartel cases, including those relating to cement, copper tubes, seamless steel tubes, paper, elevators, cables and freight forwarding. Antoine has extensive experience representing corporate clients and financial institutions, as well as governments and public entities, regarding EU state aid rules; and he has represented clients in disputes before the European Commission, the European Courts in Luxembourg, the French Competition Authority and the Court of Appeals in Paris. · Competition Law

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Anton Nothias

Anton Nothias’ practice focuses on corporate and financial matters, including financing, capital markets, and mergers and acquisitions. · Corporate

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Aude Dupuis

Aude Dupuis’ practice focuses on domestic and cross-border litigation and dispute resolution, including general commercial matters, bankruptcy law, cartel follow-on damages actions, and M&A transactions. · Litigation

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Aurèle Delors

Aurèle Delors’ practice focuses on French and EU public law including public contracts and environmental law, foreign investment control regulation and various regulation issues, as well as litigation before the French and EU courts. She also has a significant experience in EU and French banking and financial regulation, in particular in the context of litigation before the EU courts/supervisory authorities. · French Public Law

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Barthélemy Faye

Barthélemy Faye’s practice focuses on corporate and financial matters and Africa-related transactions, including energy and natural resources projects, financings, acquisitions and JVs, private equity, and sovereign debt. · Corporate

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Delphine Michot

Delphine Michot’s practice focuses on domestic and cross-border litigation and dispute resolution as well as white-collar criminal matters. · Cross-border Litigation

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Elise Goebel

Elise Goebel’s practice focuses on domestic and international litigation and arbitration, as well as white-collar defense and investigations. · International Litigation

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Frédéric G. Martin

Frederic G. Martin’s practice focuses on international capital markets and cross-border merger and acquisition transactions. Frederic’s practice involves initial public offerings and other equity offerings, de-SPAC transactions, investment-grade and high-yield debt offerings, bank regulatory capital securities offerings, and liability management transactions. He also regularly advises on disclosure and corporate governance matters. · International Capital Markets

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Frédéric de Bure

Frédéric de Bure’s practice focuses on EU and French competition law, including merger control, cartel investigations, market dominance cases and related litigation matters. · Competition Law

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Jean-Yves Garaud

Jean-Yves Garaud’s practice focuses on international arbitration and white-collar criminal matters. · International Arbitration

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John Brinitzer

John Brinitzer’s practice focuses on international capital markets transactions, as well as mergers and acquisitions. · Capital Markets

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Laura Birene

Laura Birene’s practice focuses on corporate and financial matters, including financing and capital market transactions. · Capital Markets

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Laurie Achtouk-Spivak

Laurie Achtouk-Spivak’s practice focuses on international arbitration and litigation, as well as public international law. Laurie represents clients in commercial arbitrations as well as investors and sovereigns in investment treaty arbitrations under various arbitral rules. Throughout her career, Laurie has been involved in over 50 arbitrations and has managed high-stake disputes in various sectors including energy and natural resources, infrastructure projects, defence, financial services, and life sciences. She often provides companies with investment structuring advice, and she advises and lectures on international dispute settlement, including in relation to sustainability matters. Laurie acts as an arbitrator and is a CEDR-accredited mediator. She has recently been designated by France on the ICSID list of Arbitrators and Conciliators. · International Arbitration

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Marie-Laurence Tibi

Marie-Laurence Tibi’s practice focuses on equity capital markets and public M&A transactions, as well as corporate governance for listed companies. She also advises clients on securities laws, corporate matters, and mergers and acquisitions. · Equity Capital Markets

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Pierre-Yves Chabert

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

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Rodolphe Elineau

Rodolphe Elineau’s practice focuses on corporate and financial matters, including M&A and corporate governance. Rodolphe advises both French and foreign companies on strategic and complex transactions. He also frequently advises listed companies on corporate governance matters and in connection with their general shareholders’ meetings, as well as on shareholder activism matters. · Mergers and Acquisitions

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Sarah Schröder

Sarah Schröder’s practice focuses on international arbitration, litigation, and public international law. Sarah represents clients in commercial arbitrations, as well as investors and sovereigns in investment arbitrations, before various arbitration institutions and under various arbitration rules, including the ICC and ICSID. She also represents clients in proceedings before French courts relating to arbitration. Sarah has been involved in many arbitrations and high-stake disputes in various sectors, including energy and natural resources, infrastructure projects, financial services and post-M&A. She is a regular speaker and lecturer on international arbitration matters. · International Arbitration

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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. · Mergers and Acquisitions

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Stéphanie Patureau

Stéphanie Patureau’s practice focuses on EU and French competition law. Stéphanie has extensive experience advising clients on merger control regulations including complex, multijurisdictional transactions, as well as in international cartels and anticompetitive agreements, abuse of dominance, and regulated sectors. Her wide-ranging practice also includes work on foreign investment control issues. · EU Competition Law

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Séverine Schrameck

Séverine Schrameck’s practice focuses on EU and French competition law, including merger control, cartel investigations, market dominance cases, and State aid. She has extensive experience in assisting clients on merger control regulations, notably on numerous multijurisdictional transactions. She has handled complex merger control cases before both the European Commission and the French Competition Authority. Séverine also has experience advising clients in antitrust and other government investigations, with notable representations that include a major automotive parts supplier in worldwide cartel investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the European Commission, and other antitrust authorities, and follow-on damages claims. Her wide-ranging practice includes work on foreign investment control issues and in French public law. · EU Competition Law

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Valérie Lemaitre

Valérie Lemaitre’s practice focuses on corporate and financial matters, including acquisition transactions involving public companies, structured financings, leveraged transactions and securities offerings. · Corporate Law