Cosmetic products

From the conception of the product to its marketing, our firm's experts can help you understand the complex legal environment of cosmetic products.

As a highly competitive sector, cosmetic products are subject to increasingly dense regulation; the intervention of lawyers specialised in this sector often becomes a necessity.

• Companies in the sector must protect their image, their innovations, and their know-how. Our firm assists its clients from the launch of an R&D project (testing contracts, compliance, etc.) to the creation of a distribution network, including the filing and defence of intellectual property rights (trademarks, designs, patents, etc.).
• Reducing the carbon and environmental footprint of products has been at the heart of the strategy of companies in the sector for several years. These issues frequently raise complex legal questions. Compliance with "environmental" claims, compliance with the requirements of biodiversity protection schemes (ABS), eco-design of products and packaging, management of unsold products, etc. Our firm has significant experience in this area.
• The evaluation of the quality and safety of products for consumers, as well as post-marketing surveillance, are constant concerns for players in the sector.
  Our firm brings together specialists capable of helping you answer all these questions.

Our firm brings together specialists capable of helping you answer all these questions.

Our clients are French or international companies of all sizes, whom we assist in particular with the following issues:

• Drafting and negotiating contracts: R&D, licences, manufacturing, toll manufacturing, distribution (selective or not), etc.
• Intellectual property protection strategy: registration of titles, confidentiality policy, supervision of employees' creations and inventions
• Monitoring of competitors
• Online and offline anti-counterfeiting
• Review of promotional/advertising claims, labelling, etc.
• Representation before regulatory authorities and in administrative and judicial proceedings
• Regulatory advice, including compliance with the "transparency" and "ABS" (access and benefit sharing) regulations under the Nagoya Protocol
• Data protection and digital law
• Restructuring operations, mergers and acquisitions, etc.
• Tax law
• Labour law