What is our role as business lawyers in Paris?
We are professionals of the law and we provide you the best legal advices in the life of your business, and we also help you to defend yourself if you run into difficulties. When setting up a business, we provide our clients with the right advice on choosing the best legal structure or on the legal viability of your business. Also, we help you to write and validate contracts about your company’s life, such as lease contracts, employment contracts or commercial contracts. As business lawyers, our advisory role ranges from prevention to reaction, assisting you in all types of legal actions: procedure against an employee, procedure against a competitor, procedure against a business partner or collective procedure. We are your company’s counsel, for better or for worse, ensuring our expertise works for your company. Our objective is your company’s security.
Are the firm lawyers on the side of the employees or the employer?
The firm won major proceedings in social law on both employees and employers sides. Having a 360° degrees vision is a strength for the firm. It allows the firm to be a reliable and privileged interlocutor and to resolve collective litigations. The firm philosophy is to select its employers (very small companies, small companies, multinational companies) and its employees (executive, supervisor, employees) defending only social just causes. Both employers and employees can be victims and can need help. Our objective is not adversity but employers alliance with their staff in the interest of the companies development.
What is our role in business partnership disputes?
A conflict between business partners can be more painful than a divorce in family law. Our aim in a partnership dispute is to resolve the situation amicably, in the interests of our client in order to avoid years of legal proceedings before the courts. However, if this proves impossible, we will take the necessary legal action. In most cases, our involvement in the case enables us to resolve the difficulties through judicial mediation.
What legal training do our lawyers have?
The firm’s lawyers hold degrees from the best universities in the world: Berkeley, UCLA, Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne, Université Paris-2 Panthéon-Assas, Université Paris-Dauphine, whether in employment law, real estate law, business and tax law or public law. The firm puts their excellent training and expertise to work for stimulating legal causes, as they have all decided to become lawyers by vocation. Three of the firm’s lawyers are admitted to the New York bar, as well as the Paris bar, and can represent clients in English-speaking countries and for every foreign client.
What is the firm's expertise in contract law?
The firm’s founder was a lecturer in contract law for students preparing extrance at the École Normale Supérieure, and was top of his class in the Law of Obligations bar exam.
His experience in contract law has enabled him to win a number of high-profile cases on liability of digital platforms, and obtained convictions against AIRBNB, UBER and HEETCH. As a result of his experience in contract law, he is called upon by companies of all sizes to optimize or implement their contracts.
Commercial agent contracts, services contracts, lease contracts, companies contracts, subcontracting agreements, rental contracts, the firm’s lawyers master these wide varieties of agreements.
What is the firm's expertise in insurance law?
The firm welcomed Mathilde ARLES, who worked in insurance law at AXA before joining the firm.
She combines her knowledge in insurance law to real estate issues, working alongside Olivia ZAHEDI, one of the firm’s partners.
She also handles personal injury litigation.
Can a lawyer at the Paris bar conduct proceedings elsewhere in France?
A lawyer member of the Paris bar association can intervene anywhere in France. The firm represents its client before courts of first instance and in appeal.
When to hire a collective proceedings lawyer?
It is essential to have the support of an advisor to help you cope with the difficulties faced by your business. When we are involved in collective proceedings, we act as a privileged interlocutor with the collective authorities.
When companies can be saved, we help them put into place the appropriate solutions to try to recover their business.
What is our role in the event of a tax reassessment?
Our primary role is to verify the reasons behind the tax reassessment.
Just because you are subject to a tax reassessment does not mean that it is justified. When the reassessment is abusive on substantive grounds, or sometimes for formal or procedural reasons (statute of limitations, for example), we take the necessary steps before the tax authorities.
Where tax reassessments are indisputable, we can negotiate with the tax authorities.
