Lawyers in France

Jean-Marc Petit

Adaltys Avocats

Jean-Marc Valot

Founding partner of BG2V (2010) Member of the Paris Bar since 2002 Jean-Marc specializes in corporate taxation, mergers and acquisitions, LBO, transaction taxation, real estate taxation and executive taxation. He also assists BG2V clients in monitoring tax controls and litigation. Jean-Marc is a member of the IACF (Institute of Tax Counsels), IBA (International Bar Association) and the ABA (American Bar Association).

BG2V

Jean-Marc Zampa

Partner

HFW

Jean-Marie Guegen

Partner

PDGB

Jean-Marie Tocchio

Partner,Corporate Law, Mergers & Acquisitions - Environmental Law & Energy Law

Bignon Lebray

Jean-Martial Buisson

Partner

Littler France

Jean-Maxime Blutel

Partner

Mayer Brown

Jean-Nicolas Clément

Jean-Nicolas Clément is a partner in Gide's Environment and Public Law teams in Paris. He advises on and litigates in the fields of industrial environmental law (ICPE, water and waste law), nuclear law and energy law (regulation of the electricity sector, renewable energies: wind power, solar power, hydroelectricity, etc.) as well as mining and quarrying law. Jean-Nicolas is a member of the Ministry of the Environment's working group on polluted sites and soils, and teaches environmental law at the University of Paris I (Master II "Real Estate Law" and M2 Environmental Law), as well as at the Sciences-Po law school. He is regularly cited as one of the leading specialists in environmental law by various French and Anglo-Saxon legal guides and publications (Chambers, Legal 500, Best Lawyers, etc.). Jean-Nicolas is also a member of the board of directors of the association Droits d'Urgence. Jean-Nicolas is a graduate of the Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Paris (public service section), and holds a postgraduate diploma (DEA) in environmental law from the Université Paris II-Panthéon Assas. He was admitted to the Paris Bar in 1990.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Jean-Nicolas Soret

Partner

ADVANT Altana

Jean-Pascal Bus

Partner

Norton Rose Fulbright

Jean-Philippe Bidegainberry

Jean-Philippe Bidegainberry joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1997 and became a partner in 2008. He practices in tax law and assists French and international groups in the following areas : assistance in managing group tax (calculation of taxable income, managing deficits, managing intra-group relations), tax consolidation (setting up tax consolidation groups, preparing consolidated tax reporting packages, monitoring unrealised tax benefits and liabilities, and other complex issues), restructuring and financing, tax audits, and tax litigation.

CMS Francis Lefebvre

Jean-Philippe Crot

A lawyer since 1994, Jean-Philippe Crot became a partner at UGGC Avocats in 2000 in the Corporate Law department. He is also acting general secretary of the firm. He deals mainly with Mergers & Acquisitions and matters of corporate law. He provides advice to industrial, commercial and financial operators for their restructuring and growth operations.

UGGC Avocats

Jean-Philippe Lorizon

Partner

Racine

Jean-Philippe Pons-Henry

Jean-Philippe Pons-Henry is a partner in Gide's Litigation team in Paris. He specialises in crisis management and financial litigation, particularly for regulated institutions. He acts at all stages of proceedings before supervisory or regulatory authorities (AMF, ACPR, CRE, etc.) and before civil, commercial, criminal or administrative courts. He also leads internal investigations and assists the firm's clients in assessing their compliance systems or implementing remediation plans, whether in banking or financial matters or more generally in the fight against corruption or money laundering. In recent years, Jean-Philippe has helped to exonerate a number of individuals and legal entities prosecuted for insider dealing before the AMF's Enforcement Committee, negotiated the first CRPC on price manipulation with the PNF, represented a credit institution in a class action involving several thousand customers and successfully argued a QPC on obstruction before the Constitutional Council. He is a graduate of Essec and the University of Paris X Nanterre, and holds the Certified International Investment Analyst (CIIA) qualification. He was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2004.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Jean-Philippe Thiellay

Jean-Philippe Thiellay joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2025. A State Councilor, he specializes in public law, particularly in the field of cultural industries. With over 15 years of experience at the State Council and more than 10 years in the senior management of public institutions, Jean-Philippe Thiellay has acquired extensive expertise in public action and litigation practice before all French administrative courts, European courts, sectoral regulatory authorities, and judicial courts, especially in matters related to regulation He advises private companies, both French and international, as well as public enterprises and institutions on complex governance, development, and restructuring issues. He is particularly involved in matters relating to the regulation of sectors such as media, audiovisual, digital, telecommunications, and cultural industries. He also works closely with other teams within the firm on all types of operations involving public law, in whole or in part (liability, land-use and planning policy, urban planning and construction, environment, defense, sports, etc.).

CMS Francis Lefebvre

Jean-Pierre Harb

Jones Day

Jean-Pierre Martel

Partner

Orrick

Jean-Pierre Picca

Partner

Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP

Jean-René Benichou

Jean-René Bénichou joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1987 and became a partner in 2001. He practices in tax law and advises French and international groups on tax management (tax consolidation, intra-group relations, etc.), restructuring (mergers, spin-offs, demergers, etc.), tax audits, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, arranging and structuring financing, and negotiating tax authorisations in domestic or international set-ups. Jean-René Bénichou also assists clients during tax audits and any resulting litigation. He's practice also includes environmental tax and taxation of non-profits organisations.

CMS Francis Lefebvre

Jean-Robert Bousquet

Partner Head of France Corporate Department

Eversheds Sutherland

Jean-Sébastien Bazille

Jean-Sébastien Bazille is a partner in the Litigation team in Paris. He acts in all areas of complex commercial litigation with a strategic dimension (contractual litigation, M&A litigation, tort liability, recovery and enforcement proceedings, etc.). He has developed specific experience in international enforcement and asset recovery for creditors and debtors, particularly sovereigns (immunity issues, international sanctions, etc.). Jean-Sébastien recently represented a sovereign wealth fund of a Middle Eastern State in order to obtain the release of seizures made on USD 500+ million assets, advised the sellers of a major transportation company in their defense against the enforcement of the liabilities guarantee of the shares purchase agreement for an amount of EUR 60 million, or also defended the sovereign development bank of a west European State in a dispute relating to alleged environmental pollutions. A graduate of the DJCE, Jean-Sébastien is a member of various professional associations (International Law Association, Paris Place de Droit, etc.), and teaches litigation at university and at Sciences Po. He was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2010.

Gide Loyrette Nouel

Jean-Sébastien Dumont

Partner of BG2V since 2017 Member of the Paris Bar since 2001 Jean-Sébastien assists French and international groups in the media, new technologies and real estate sectors in the management of their tax issues as well as executives in the organization of their assets and the transmission of their business. He has developed tax expertise in structuring, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, management packages and management of tax controls and litigation.

BG2V

Jean-Yves Garaud

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

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

Jeanne Bossi Malafosse

Jeanne BOSSI MALAFOSSE is head of the Personal Data Department and co-head of the Life Sciences Department. She has significant experience in personal data protection and various questions relating to life sciences, particularly in the area of health information systems. She assists organizations in the following subjects: - compliance with personal data protection principles in all sectors - preparation for Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation - regulatory framework of planned health information systems - managing new regulations for exchanging and sharing health data in the health and medicosocial sectors - contracts for hosting health data and coordination of the various authorizations required - consultations on the conditions for accessing health data (INDS, CNIL, Ethics Committees, CEREES, etc.) vcompliance audits of the structures - conduct of data protection impact assessments - maintaining registers of processing activities - DPO accreditation and service offering - contract drafting - data protection policies - CNIL/supervisory authority inspections.

Delsol Avocats