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News 26 Mar 2025 · France

LEGAL 500 EMEA 2025

Discover our law firm's ranking

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The 2025 edition of the Legal 500 EMEA guide is out. We would particularly like to thank our clients for putting their trust in us!

Our law firm’s rankings in France

France

  • 1 en Tier 1 : The Regions 
  • 7 en Tier 2 : Capital markets: Debt capital markets, Data privacy and data protection, Derivatives and structured finance, Employment, Industry focus: IT and internet, Media and entertainment: Music, Tax 
  • 10 en Tier 3 : Administrative and public law, Banking and Finance: Bank regulatory, Construction, Environment, Industry focus: Energy, Insolvency, Intellectual property: Copyright, Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs, Private equity: Fund formation, Real Estate 
  • 3 en Tier 4 : Banking and finance: Transactional work, Dispute resolution : Commercial litigation, EU, competition & distribution,
  • 1 en Tier 5 : Mergers and acquisitions 
  • 1 en Firms to watch : Capital markets: Equity capital markets

Morocco

  • 1 en Tier 1 : Tax
  • 1 en Tier 3 : Commercial, Corporate and M&A

Lawyers ranked 

France

  • Stéphane Austry - Tax, Hall of Fame
  • Kawthar Ben Khelil - Administrative and public law, Leading associate
  • Grégory Benteux - Derivatives and structured finance, Leading partner
  • Pierre Bonneau - Employment, Hall of Fame
  • Alexandre Bordenave - Derivatives and structured finance, Next Generation Partner
  • Céline Cloché-Dubois - Environment, Next Generation Partner
  • Aline Divo - Real Estate, Leading partner
  • Rosetta Ferrère - Capital markets: debt capital markets, Next Generation Partner
  • Bruno Gibert - Tax, Hall of Fame
  • Laurent Marquet de Vasselot - Employment, Hall of Fame
  • Florentin Sanson - Media and entertainment: music, Next Generation Partner
  • Marc-Etienne Sébire - Capital markets: Debt capital markets, Leading partner
  • Arnaud Valverde - Real Estate, Leading associate

Morocco

  • Rachid Mejdoubi – Tax,  Hall of Fame

Lawyers quoted

France : équipe de Paris

  • Stéphane Austry - Tax
  • Alexandre Bastos - Insolvency
  • Kawthar Ben Khelil - Administrative and public law
  • Jean-Charles Benois - Tax
  • Grégory Benteux - Derivatives and structured finance, Banking and finance: Transactional work
  • Benjamin Bill - Construction, Real estate,
  • Pierre Bonneau - Employment
  • Alexandre Bordenave - Derivatives and structured finance, Banking and finance: Transactional work
  • Chantal Bouquet - Tax
  • Guillaume Bouté - Insolvency
  • Nicolas Callies - Employment
  • Thomas Carenzi - Administrative and public law
  • Florence Chérel - Construction, Real Estate
  • Ludovique Clavreul - Employment
  • Céline Cloché-Dubois - Construction, Environment, Industry focus : Energy, Real Estate
  • Vincent Delage - Employment
  • Aline Divo - Construction, Real Estate
  • Rosetta Ferrère - Capital markets: Debt capital markets
  • Yaël Fitoussi - Capital markets: Debt capital markets
  • Mathieu Françon - Banking and finance: Bank Regulatory
  • Caroline Froger-Michon - Employment
  • Pierre Fumery - Data privacy and data protection
  • Frédéric Gerner - Tax
  • Bruno Gibert - Tax
  • Daniel Gutmann - Tax
  • Léa Hadjadj - Banking and finance: Bank Regulatory, Private equity: Fund formation
  • Maxime Hanriot - Data privacy and data protection, Industry focus: IT and Internet
  • Pauline Larroque - Derivatives and structured finance
  • Vincent Lorieul - EU, competition and distribution
  • Laurent Marquet de Vasselot – Employment
  • Lucie Menerault - Construction
  • Edouard Milhac - Tax
  • Eleni Moraïtou - Administrative and public law, EU, competition and distribution
  • Nathalie Petrignet - EU, competition and distribution
  • Anne Plisson - Environment
  • Florie Poisson - Capital markets: Debt capital markets
  • Denis Redon - EU, competition and distribution
  • Sabine Rigaud - Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
  • Anne-Sophie Rostaing - Tax
  • Aurore-Emmanuelle Rubio - Industry focus : Energy
  • Florentin Sanson - Industry focus: IT and Internet, Media and entertainment: Music, Intellectual property: Copyright
  • Marc-Etienne Sébire - Derivatives and structured finance, Capital markets: Debt capital markets
  • Bertrand Sénéchal - Capital Markets: Equity Capital Markets
  • Jérôme Sutour - Banking and finance: Bank regulatory, Private equity: Fund formation
  • François Tenailleau - Administrative and public law
  • Arnaud Valverde - Real Estate
  • Claire Vannini - EU, competition & distribution, Administrative and public law
  • Anne-Laure Villedieu - Industry focus: IT and Internet, Data privacy and data protection, Intellectual property: Copyright
  • Pierre-Edouard Vino - Construction, Real estate

France : Lyon and Strasbourg

  • François-Xavier Awatar - The Regions 
  • Guillaume Belluc - The Regions 
  • Guillaume Bossy -  The Regions,  Employment
  • Jérémy Duret - The Regions
  • François Coutard - The Regions
  • Jean-Thomas Heintz - The Regions

Morocco

  • Johan Bruneau - Commercial, Corporate and M&A
  • Rachida Charifi - Commercial, Corporate and M&A
  • Rachid Mejdoubi - Tax

 

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