About
Firm overview: Fairway is a French business law firm established in 2011 with a sector-specific approach to real estate. However, the firm covers a field of practices including corporate, M&A, restructuring and litigation. The 36-lawyers firm covers the complete range of expertise on the real estate market, spanning investment, development, leasing, environment, town planning, asset management, transaction, restructuring, tax, litigation and property financing know-how. Among these lawyers, 25 of them are involved in corporate/M&A, restructuring, corporate tax and litigation. - Main areas of practice - Real estate - 8 partners, 18 fee-earners Fairway real estate lawyers joined the firm aiming at focusing on providing high-quality, cost-effective advice to companies in the real estate industry. Today, the firm is one of the leaders in France. Its real estate sector focus, together with its full service range of legal skills (investment, transaction, finance, tax, construction, environment, town planning, leases, asset management, etc), enable the firm to assist all market players, both French and International (financial institutions, investment companies, investment funds, family offices, asset managers, developers and others involved in construction projects, landlords and tenants, business and industrial companies, large corporate and public bodies), in every phase of real estate matters. - Contact: Frédéric Lefébure - Email: flefebure@fway.fr - Contact: Aubry d’Argenlieu - Email: adargenlieu@fway.fr - M&A/corporate - 4 partners, 11 fee-earners Fairway’s corporate team is a partner of choice for many investors and investment management companies in their core trade (structuring, investments, management and arbitration) but also for industrial companies operating in extremely diverse sectors such as the mass retail sector, the automotive industry, the healthcare sector, telecommunications and the media, etc. This practice covers both the real estate industry and traditional corporate / M&A (industry sectors, private equity transactions, etc). - Contact: Pierre-Emmanuel Fonteilles - Email: pefonteilles@fway.fr - Contact: Sandrine Benaroya - Email: sbenaroya@fway.fr - Restructuring - 1 partner, 3 fee-earners Fairway assists French and international clients, including financial institutions, investment funds, key players of the real estate industry as well as industrial and service companies from diverse sectors, in all the phases of financial restructuring processes and insolvency proceedings. From renegotiating financial contracts to more complex restructurings as part of confidential or insolvency proceedings, Fairway offers its legal expertise, its experience acquired while handling major restructuring cases and its perfect knowledge of the other professionals regularly involved in restructuring matters (judicial administrators, trustees, financial advisers and auditors, interim managers, etc). - Contact: Matthieu Barthélemy - Email: mbarthelemy@fway.fr - Dispute resolution - 2 partners, 4 fee-earners Fairway’s litigation team assists and represents its clients for the resolution of their disputes, either in relation to civil or commercial litigation, or through alternative dispute resolution modes (contractual or judicially conducted mediation, arbitration). Attentive to its clients’ needs and thanks to its disciplined and cross-functional approach, Fairway’s litigation team is able to offer pragmatic solutions in support of their development and of the defense of their interests. - Contact: Sabine du Granrut - Email: sdugranrut@fway.fr - Tax - 1 partner, 2 fee-earners Fairway’s tax team is specialised in real estate and corporate/M&A tax. Working closely with all the other lawyers of the firm, the tax team advises French and international clients on a broad range of matters and is involved in complex transactions (M&A, private equity, restructuring, investment funds and real estate transactions). - Contact: Emmanuel Galifer - Email: egalifer@fway.fr - Chairman: Frédéric Lefébure - Managing partners: Aubry d’Argenlieu & Frédéric Lefébure - Number of partners: 12 - Number of lawyers: 27 - Languages: English, French, German, Turkish ### Languages - French - German - English - Turkish ### Staffing Figures - 15 Partners
Office locations
Paris
Paris
Fairway A.A.R.P.I. 44 Rue De Prony Paris 75017 France
Practice areas
Lawyers in this office
Alexandre Poupard
Alexandre Poupard is a partner in the real estate department of Fairway Avocats. With over 20 years of experience, Alexandre has developed a cross-disciplinary practice combining M&A / Private Equity and Real Estate. He advises French and international clients, including institutional investors, investment funds and asset managers, on complex real estate transactions. Alexandre assists his clients with all their real estate matters, particularly on acquisitions and disposals of real estate assets and portfolios, sale and leaseback transactions, as well as all matters related to lease agreements and more generally real estate management. Alexandre has also recognized expertise in structuring and negotiating real estate joint ventures and in the acquisition and structuring of real estate platforms. · Real Estate
Aubry D’Argenlieu
Aubry joined Fairway as a Partner, in June 2012. He is particularly renowned in the field of complex real estate investments, real estate acquisition/disposal, real estate development, real estate joint ventures and real estate funds formation. · Real Estate
Aurore du Marais
Aurore du Marais is counsel at Fairway. She specializes in the fields of real estate investment (acquisitions, disposals), development (construction and real estate promotion) and real estate management (leases, asset/property management contracts). She advises institutional investors, real estate companies and developers and has extensive expertise in handling international matters and advising foreign clients. · Real Estate
Cloé Teisson
Partner · Real Estate
Cécile Peyronnet
Partner · Litigation
David Franco
David joined Fairway as a partner in November 2012 to head the real estate finance practice. He also specializes in debt restructuring. He assists investors (institutional investors, real estate companies, developers and other investment funds), credit institutions and financial institutions, notably in real estate financing and refinancing, debt restructuring and bond issuing. He advises both creditors and companies in difficulty in the context of insolvency proceedings. · Real Estate
Emmanuel Galifer
Emmanuel joined Fairway as a partner in February 2013 to lead the firm's tax practice. He assists French and international investors (institutional investors, real estate companies, developers and other investment funds), credit institutions and financial institutions, in both real estate and corporate tax matters. He also advises clients on tax litigation. · Tax
Franck Denis
Franck, a partner at Cabinet Fairway since July 2019, focuses primarily on real estate acquisitions, development projects, construction matters and commercial lease negotiations. Experience• Advises on all legal aspects of acquisition, disposal and development transactions (including construction and real estate development) across all types of real estate assets, including offices, logistics and warehouse facilities, shopping centres, hotels and serviced residences. Franck is also regularly involved in property management matters and commercial lease work.• Advises institutional investors, real estate companies, developers, as well as major French and international end-users. · Real Estate
Frédéric Lefébure
Frédéric Lefébure’s main activity focuses on real estate acquisitions (portfolio, real estate companies, offices buildings, retail centers, healthcare and residential properties), real estate asset and properties management (development and commercial leases negotiations). Frédéric Lefébure advises French and overseas Institutional companies, funds, investors as well as industrial groups. His expertise in corporate law is also very appreciated as well as on real estate market and on M&A mid-cap companies field. · Real Estate
Nicolas Aynès
Nicolas is partner at Fairway. He assists his clients in settling their civil and commercial disputes, whether in court or through alternative dispute resolution (conciliation, mediation, arbitration). Nicolas also assists his clients in structuring, negotiating and drafting their commercial, partnership, distribution and cooperation contracts and agreements. His areas of expertise include contract and tort law, distribution law, banking and finance law (credit agreements, hedging instruments, etc.), corporate law and real estate law. He is the author of a number of publications, notably in the fields of distribution law and banking and finance law. Commercial and civil litigation Alternative dispute resolution, domestic (CMAP) and international (ICC, FIDIC, ICSID, ad hoc) arbitration Negotiating, structuring and drafting commercial contracts · Litigation
Pierre-Emmanuel Fonteilles
With over 20 years of experience and a solid base of both French and Anglo-Saxon clients, Pierre-Emmanuel Fonteilles specializes in real estate investments, M&A and Private Equity transactions. He advises institutional investors (insurance companies, investment funds), industrial and service groups as well as wealthy families. In addition to his M&A, real estate M&A and other transactional activities, Pierre-Emmanuel Fonteilles often intervenes in the field of partnerships (between investors, investors and managers, or investors and developers), in various industrial, trade or service sectors and notably, in the real estate sector (property development), hotel industry and health care. · Real Estate
Sabine du Granrut
Sabine du Granrut has extensive experience in commercial and real estate litigation and is widely recognized in her field. As such when she was a Member of the Bar Council, she was in charge of ethics and relations with the magistrates. Her skills allow her to analyze the different procedural strategies and the various steps of civil and commercial proceedings. Her authority and her spontaneous goodwill allow her to consider appropriate procedures but also possible amicable settlements. · Litigation
Sandrine Benaroya
Sandrine Benaroya, a specialist in M&A and LBO - Private Equity transactions, has developed a recognized expertise over the past twenty years and assists a clientele of investment funds and medium and large companies, in the media, entertainment, distribution and industrial sectors. Sandrine Benaroya advises on complex transactions, including carve-outs. · Corporate / M&A
Vincent Nédellec
Vincent joined Fairway as a partner in 2025. He works in mergers and acquisitions and has nearly 20 years of experience in international law firms. Combining expertise in corporate law and real estate, he assists operators, institutional investors, investment funds and industrial groups. He has significant experience in the hotel and real estate transaction sectors. · Corporate / M&A