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Jean-Baptiste Belin

Partner

Squadra Avocats

Intellectual PropertyTechnology & Data+4
FranceEnglish
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Jean-Baptiste Charles

Partner

HFW

LitigationAviation Law+2
FranceFrench, English
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Jean-Baptiste Duclercq

Associate

CGR Avocats

Public LawEnergy+4
FranceEnglish, French
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Jean-Baptiste Frantz

Partner

Bredin Prat

TaxCorporate / M&A+3
FranceFrench, English +1
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Jean-Baptiste Lecoeur

Partner / Paris Attorney-at-law (Paris Bar) UPC Representative European Patent Attorney Patent Litigator

Casalonga

Intellectual PropertyPatent Litigation+1
FranceFrench, English +1
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Jean-Baptiste Merigot De Treigny

Jean-Baptiste Merigot de Treigny advises public and private entities as well as financial institutions on all aspects of public law matters, both in advice and litigation. He specialises in public contracts (tender processes, execution and litigation regarding concessions, public procurement or public private partnerships) and regulation (transportation, energy, telecoms…) notably related to major infrastructures projects.

Clifford Chance

Public ContractsRegulation+6
FranceFrench, English
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Jean-Baptiste Poulle

Jean-Baptiste Poulle is a market leader renowned for his broad regulatory expertise. He assists clients on significant financial, banking and asset management matters and represents financial institutions in sensitive and complex disciplinary proceedings before the French AMF and ACPR, as well as EU regulatory authorities (e.g., ECB, ESMA, SRB). Jean-Baptiste provides strategic guidance on compliance with emerging regulatory frameworks, including DORA, the AI Act, and sustainable finance regulations. His practice also includes advising on mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganizations, and the establishment of new entities engaged in regulated financial activities. Jean-Baptiste was a member of the asset management and institutional investors advisory panel of the AMF and a member of the Legal High Committee for Financial Markets of Paris (HCJP). He has also held academic positions at leading French universities and has also published extensively on financial markets and banking regulation.

Spitz Poulle Kannan

Banking & FinanceFinancial Regulation+4
FranceFrench, English +1
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Jean-Baptiste Santelli

Partner

De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés

Banking & FinanceCorporate / M&A+3
FranceFrench, English
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Jean-Baptiste Thiénot

Jean-Baptiste Thiénot joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2018 and became a partner in 2022. He practices in intellectual property law and focuses on patent litigation in the French court system. He is also a Unified Patent Court (UPC) registered representative. He frequently acts in complex litigation relating to products subject to specific regulations, such as health products, cosmetics, and vaping. He advises on and drafts contracts, including those related to R&D, assignment and licensing, technology transfer, and rights portfolio audits. He also assists with implementing innovation protection policies, including those related to employee inventions. Jean-Baptiste Thiénot has developed expertise in healthcare product regulations and advises healthcare manufacturers on their innovative projects, particularly those related to e-health and compliance with "anti-gift" and "transparency" laws. He assists companies in various industrial sectors, particularly in life sciences, mechanical engineering, and electronics.

CMS Francis Lefebvre

Intellectual PropertyPatent Litigation+4
FranceFrench, English
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Jean-Baptiste de Martigny

Jean-Baptiste de Martigny is a partner in the Mergers & Acquisitions team in Paris. He also advises in securities law. He regularly advises listed and unlisted companies, family groups as well as private equity and infrastructure funds. Before joining Gide, Jean-Baptiste de Martigny was a partner at Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier, after practising at Allen & Overy and then Counsel and Clifford Chance. Jean-Baptiste holds an LL.M from University College London and is a graduate of IEP Paris and Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas. He was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2003.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Mergers & AcquisitionsCorporate / M&A+1
France
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Jean-Benoît Demaret

Partner

Bredin Prat

Corporate / M&APrivate Equity+2
FranceFrench, English
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Jean-Charles Benois Benois

Jean-Charles Benois joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2012 and became a partner in 2019. He practices in tax law with a particular focus on direct company taxation. He advises clients on all aspects of taxation of French and international companies. He has developed extensive experience in restructuring, tax consolidation, structuring intra-group relations and advance tax rulings. He also advises on transaction taxation and private equity (mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts (LBOs), negotiating financing and refinancing agreements, etc.). He assists individuals, shareholders and senior executives on their personal, professional (employee shareholding schemes and/or profit-sharing plans), and asset planning tax. Jean-Charles Benois advises and represents clients in pre-litigation and litigation procedures.

CMS Francis Lefebvre

TaxCorporate / M&A+2
FranceFrench, English +1
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Jean-Charles Jaïs

Jean-Charles specialises in pre-contentious and litigation matters ranging from financial and banking disputes, financial regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings (in particular in relation to market abuse offence), contentious competition, white collar crime, post-completion disputes, and private international law to general commercial law disputes (such as abusive termination of commercial relations and unfair competition). In this respect, he regularly appears before Civil and Commercial Courts as well as the French Financial Markets Authority (“AMF”). Jean-Charles often works in close collaboration with lawyers from the firm’s other market-leading practice areas, including Corporate, Competition, Financial Regulation, in cross-office, multidisciplinary teams. As well as France-based clients, Jean-Charles represents corporates and financial institutions in the firm’s Brussels and London offices. He spent four months on secondment to the firm’s Madrid office in 2010.

Linklaters

LitigationBanking & Finance+4
FranceFrench, English +1
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Jean-Christophe Amy

Partner

De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés

Corporate / M&ARestructuring+2
FranceFrench, English
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Jean-Christophe Brun

Partner

Alerion

Labor & EmploymentSocial Security+1
FranceFrench, English
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Jean-Christophe Cleach

Partner

CLEACH Avocats

Corporate / M&APrivate Equity+1
FranceFrench, English
JG

Jean-Christophe Grall

Jean-Christophe Grall is the founding partner and managing partner of Grall & Associés for twenty years now.

Grall & Associés

Competition / AntitrustState Aid+6
FranceFrench, English
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Jean-Christophe Guerrini

Partner at Plasseraud Avocats

Plasseraud IP

Intellectual PropertyLitigation+3
FranceFrench, English
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Jean-Christophe Sauzey

Jean-Christophe Sauzey joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1987 and became a partner in 1999. His practice centres on the taxation of international corporate groups, transfer pricing, assistance with tax audits and defending international corporate clients, asset planning tax, and research and innovation tax.

CMS Francis Lefebvre

TaxInternational Tax+4
FranceFrench, English
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Jean-Daniel Bretzner

Partner

Bredin Prat

LitigationCommercial Litigation+5
FranceFrench, English
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Jean-Dominique Daudier De Cassini

Partner

Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Corporate RecoveryRestructuring+1
FranceFrench, English
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Jean-Emmanuel Skovron

Partner specialising in investments and transactions involving the French State and concerning the public sector (listed or unlisted companies). Through this practice, he has developed an in-depth understanding of the banking and infrastructure sectors. He has recently represented CMA CGM on the acquisition of Chérie HD, publisher of the television service “Chérie 25”; CMA CGM and Merit France on the structuring and regulatory implications of their acquisition from Altice France of Altice Media; La Banque Postale on its acquisition of a 58% stake in CNP Assurances and its public offer and squeeze out of the remaining shares of CNP Assurances; SNCF on its recapitalisation via a €4 billion share capital increase; the French State (Agence des Participations de l’État and Direction Générale du Trésor) on the reorganisation of Bpifrance; Paprec on the takeover of Dalkia Wastenergy; Covéa on the sale of its 20% stake in Caser Seguros to Helvetia; Aéroports de Paris on the restructuring of its share capital and the regulatory consequences of its privatisation; and EDF on its partnership with Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations regarding RTE.

BDGS Associés

Corporate / M&AGovernment & Public Sector+3
FranceFrench, Spanish +1
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Jean-Fabrice Brun

Jean-Fabrice Brun joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2004 and became a partner in 2016. He is joint manager of the firm's Dispute Resolution department. He advises a broad range of corporate, individual, government, and public clients. He is an experienced litigator and represents clients in high-stakes litigation proceedings before the national civil, commercial, financial, and criminal courts. Jean-Fabrice Brun is highly skilled in international arbitration. He has represented several international groups in strategic litigation proceedings in the agri-foods, banking, insurance, and aviation sectors.

CMS Francis Lefebvre

LitigationInternational Arbitration+1
FranceFrench, English
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Jean-Florent Mandelbaum

Partner

Bredin Prat

TaxPrivate Equity+2
FranceFrench, English