General counsel

We serve as trusted business advisers to both public and private companies on day-to-day, as well as non-routine securities issues. For public companies, we counsel clients with respect to privatization, public-private partnerships, tender and exchange offers and other financing transactions.

We provide guidance to global companies’ boards of directors, special committees and management as to corporate governance and reporting and compliance issues imposed by the applicable laws, local and foreign acts (FCPA, UK Bribery Act, Sapin Law…). We often serve as outside general counsel to multinationals and foreign investors.

We are regularly defending individuals and companies in investigations and proceedings brought by a broad range of investigative, regulatory and prosecuting agencies.

We provide full-service and we can offer specialist services within their practice area.

We provide expert and strategic legal and compliance advice to your top management considering your business constraints and challenges. We support setting internal governance policies and manage the impact of external factors. We evaluate and weight multiple inputs and impacts of any decision or course of action.

We provide legal counsel and guidance on all legal matters, including personnel law, policies, procedures, rules, regulations, and laws pertaining to your business activity, contracts, tax matters, worker’s compensation, liability and insurance matters, debt collection, IP rights, consumer protection and Personal Data and other laws and regulations.

We provide guidance, contracts and risk management services to companies and investors.

We support you to anticipate and identify legal issues and allow your counsels other upper management in order to develop legal strategies and solutions, often in situations of great political, public relations, or financial risk or significance, and with limited time for assessing alternatives.

We review, research, interpret, and prepare both written and oral opinions on a wide variety of legal issues.

We draft, reviews, and approves policies and procedures, regulations, bylaws, and other legal documents.

We elaborate, review complex contracts, terms and conditions, advertisements, leases, and other legal documents

We represent you in the negotiation round with your partners or public stakeholders, notably in terms of tax avoidance, dumping and competition issues.

We provide training to your employees on various legal and compliance issues through seminars and meetings.

We can support in selecting and retaining specific inhouse or outside counsel, as required, to obtain legal opinions or to handle claims and litigation.