Expertises

• Pre-operation audits 
• Private equity operations: start-up, development and transmission 
• Mergers, acquisitions and sale transactions
• Structuring and implementation of joint ventures 
• Structuring and implementation of management packages and incentive mechanisms for employees and managers 
• Structuring of the governance of companies or groups of companies
• Structuring or restructuring of groups of companies

Management of pre-litigation and litigation matters:

• Strategic advice
• Management of proceedings before all courts and independent authorities (commercial, civil, criminal and administrative)
• Management of serial litigation 
• Recourse to alternative dispute resolution methods (settlement, reconciliation, etc.)
• Assistance with internal and international arbitration proceedings

Competitive advantage:

• Strategic advice: search for negotiated solutions in the client’s interest, procedural options  
• Risk analysis / opportunity costs of the procedures
• Management of the litigation ecosystem (crisis management consultants, technical experts, financial analysts, translators, etc.)  

Litigation in commercial and corporate law:

• Post-acquisition conflicts 
• Shareholders disputes 
• Corporate litigation
• Protection of business assets 
• Prevention and management of corporate issues

Advice for individual and collective relations:

• Day-to-day HR Support 
• Employee savings plans
• International mobility
• Relations with employee representatives (“IRP”)
• Negotiations strategy and management of dialog with employee representative organizations
• Optimization of means of compensation and work time (collective performance agreements, compensation based on days worked, annualization),
• Risk prevention & compliance

Individual and collective disputes:

• Breaches of contracts and negotiated departures 
• Contested elections
• Obstruction
• Working conditions 
• Criminal labor law

Management and support of strategic projects:

• Restructuring
• Employment protection plans
• Negotiated collective departures
• Transfers of business
• Mergers, acquisitions, audits

Training

• Interventions concerning current events
• Management technique
• HR Communications
• Bespoke training

Our Team:

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Laurent Levy

Partner

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Michaël Piquet-Fraysse

Partner

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Christophe Glénat

Counsel

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Camille Rauzy-Askaou

Associate

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Ilyes Gharbi

Associate

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Lorena Raulot

Associate

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Margot Naquet

Associate

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Lucile Boyer

Associate

Safeguarding:

• Trademark clearance
• Negotiation and acquisition of rights
• Negotiation and drafting of R&D agreements
• Negotiation and drafting of contracts with communications agencies

Acquisition of exclusive competitive advantages:

• Development of bespoke protective strategies
• Management of filing procedures 
• Audits of rights portfolios during external growth transactions 

Perpetuation of rights portfolios:

• Renewing registrations 
• Monitoring of third-party filings
• Administrative actions for enforcement or termination (including before any Community courts)
• Negotiation and drafting of coexistence agreements

Creating value from intangible assets:

• Negotiation and drafting of contracts (licenses, assignments…)
• Financial estimations of rights portfolios

Protection of rights:

• Anti-counterfeiting measures (investigations, implementation and monitoring of customs surveillance procedures, on line / off line monitoring, confiscation of counterfeit goods…)
• Emergency, temporary and/or protective conservatoires measures, in summary proceedings or on application
• Actions on the merits: counterfeit (in civil and/or criminal courts), unfair competition, parasitic conduct

Safeguarding

• Implementation / update of the strategy applied to contracts
• Structuring of commercial partnerships 
• Drafting of contracts for the provision of services, sale, supply, outsourcing, general conditions of sale and purchase, commercial partnerships, manufacturing and subcontracting contracts, sale and leasing of going businesses and goodwill

Protection of rights

• Termination of established commercial relations
• Deceptive marketing 
• Unfair competition

• Contractual framework for distribution policies and circuits (general conditions of sale and provision of services, supply contracts, annual agreements, exclusive and selective distribution contracts, franchise contracts, business provider contracts, contracts of sales agents, sales commission contracts, distance selling, etc.)
• Development of distribution, franchise, sales agency and concession networks,
• Protection of exclusive or selective distribution networks
• Unfair competition (unfair poaching, denigration, parasitism)
• Anti-competitive practices (cartels and abuse of dominant market position), representation before the relevant competition authorities and French and community courts
• Sales promotion and consumer law: consumer information, unfair/aggressive/deceptive practices, comparative advertising, unfair terms, sales, promotions and price reductions, product labeling ...
• Regulations applicable to sales and promotional operations (games, lotteries, giveaways)
• Advertising, loyalty policies, distance sales, canvassing

Prevention of risk of incurring criminal penalties:

• Risk mapping 
• Strategic advice
• Establishment of delegations of powers

Representation in all phases of legal proceedings:

• Strategy
• Detention
• Investigation
• Trial

Anti-corruption arena:

• Deployment strategy for compliance programs
• Implementation of whistle-blowing procedures 
• External referrer
• Compliance audit 
• Training

• Real estate development projects (sales, promotion, acquisition, real estate project structuring and deployment of appropriate contracts)
• Construction
• Co-ownership and cooperative structures
• Leases (commercial and residential)
• Optimization of real estate assets
• Construction litigation and other real estate litigation matters, specifically concerning architects  

Safeguarding

• Audit of compliance with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) 
• Risk mapping and data mapping
• Deployment of a compliance program scaled to the issues 
• Procedures for managing personal data leaks 
• Training

Competitive advantages

• Strategic advice: protection of key assets 
• Implementation of internal HR policies 
• Analysis of the competition 

Protection of rights

• Assistance during CNIL audits
• Responses to information requests 
• CNIL litigation and related aftermath 
• Unfair competition