Paris Office

The Paris office focuses on providing legal advice to French, EU and international clients operating in France, in the European Union and Central and Eastern European Countries in connection with the following corporate, technology and commercial transactions: 

• Legal aspects of the E-commerce, Computer Law and Technology transfer agreements 

• Legal advise and litigation on the intellectual property issues and related rights

• Advising client on company and corporate law particularly on formation of legal entities, including structuring and creating joint-ventures with a full range of complete corporate documentation relating to corporate activities

• Advise on legal aspects of banking regulations and with regard to taxation law and strategies

• Legal advise on EU and French legislation related to distribution of goods

• Drafting of distribution and reseller agreements

• Commercial litigation and arbitration

In addition, the Firm provides a global understanding of the legal questions faced by its clients in their activities as civil and criminal law, international liability, immigration law.

The Paris office ensures assistance to the International Legal Counsels offices in European Law.

The clients of the Paris office’s are notably in the following areas: e-commerce, software and computer programming, internet security, computer games, luxury goods, wine and spirituals, trade of commodities; art and culture.

The Paris office is also competent for its Legal Reforms consulting practice, particularly with regard to the EU experience and expertise as applied in Central and Eastern Europe, North Africa and Asia.

The firm’s attorneys have advised government and private entities with regard to the issues of harmonization and approximation of legislation at regional and national levels in connection with the European integration process. The Paris office’s attorneys are experienced legal consultants with EU-funded programs and with European Union, World Bank, USAID legal expertise projects. Our attorneys’ experience also includes project development, management and monitoring of numerous donor programs.

The Paris office’s attorneys’ experience includes the following areas of legal reforms and training:

• Contract and property law reforms 
• Corporate governance and shareholders’ rights 
• Bank restructuring and securities markets 
• Foreign investment protection 
• Judicial reform and legislative drafting 
• Training workshops in the areas of contract negotiation, technology protection, licensing and technology transfer, data protection 
• WTO accession and international Trade Agreements negotiations 
• Indirect taxation (VAT and excises) and Banking regulations 
• Bankruptcy procedure 
• Approximation of competition legislation and state aid control 
• Customs regulation

Similarly, the firm’s services promote the exchange of knowledge of the Eastern markets to the West.

The Paris office’s attorneys have been directly involved in comprehensive analysis, review and drafting of securities regulations, corporate, property and investment legislation in Croatia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Moldova, Russian Federation, Slovak Republic, Vietnam, Ukraine, Uzbekistan.

The areas in which the firm’s attorneys have provided other advisory services include also Albania, Tunisia, Morocco, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Serbia, Montenegro.

In addition, the office maintains a broad referral and alliances network of specialized attorneys enabling the office to address the needs of clients’ in other legal fields.

The Paris office’s attorneys’ operative languages are English, French, Russian, Belarussian, Polish, and Ukrainian.

Selected recent legal reforms projects:

• Commercial Law Center, Kiev, Ukraine. Under the auspices of a USAID-sponsored project: workshops on corporate governance, contract negotiations and technology law 
• Participation in the development of the legal components for the reform of the energy sector in Romania 
• Comprehensive review of the economic legislation of Serbia and recommendations for the amendment of the basic laws on corporations, secured transactions and property 
• Establishment of the policy framework for compensation for nationalized property in Montenegro in conjunction with the ongoing privatization effort in the country 
• Review of the business legislation in Croatia and development of legislation on secured transactions 
• Support to the Development of Competition Policy in Croatia 
• Protection of Intellectual Property Rights in Croatia 
• Bilateral Investment Treaties negotiations in Slovak Republic 
• Public Finance (Treasury) reform in Serbia 
• Enforcement of Competition Legislation in the Russian Federation 
• WTO accession of the Russian Federation 
• Comprehensive review of the indirect taxation and securities legislation of Ukraine and recommendations for the amendment of the basic laws in conformity to the Acquis communautaire.