Litigation/ Arbitration

Analysis and assessment of claims and/or arguments in defence;
Formulation of pre-litigious and litigation strategies;
Proceedings for interim measures on assets and property;
Drafting of requests for arbitration, answer(s) to the request for arbitration, memorials;
Procedural hearings and pleadings;
Recourses before the Court of Appeals to annul the award and writings;
Recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards.

Defining pre-litigious and litigation strategies;
Request to be authorised to implement measures of investigation for preserving evidence;
Request to be authorised to implement interim measures: provisional attachments on bank accounts, seizure of assets and appointment of ad hoc proxy;
Summary proceedings and/or proceedings on the merits before commercial and civil courts and writings especially with regard to contractual liability or non-performance of contractual obligations, abusive termination of negotiations, industrial risks, unfair competition, commercial leases, disputes involving owners/ building owners or any intervening party to the building operation and/or their insurers, implementation of warranties on liabilities, disputes between shareholders or between a director and a company;
Procedural hearings and pleadings;
Assistance for court ordered expertise (technical, financial or industrial) and writings to the expert;
Drafting of settlement agreement;
Insolvency proceedings (ad hoc proxy, safeguard, bankruptcy and judicial liquidation) : statement of claims, proceedings before the bankruptcy judge and the Court of Appeals and defence of directors whose liability might be at issue at the occasion of any insolvency proceedings;
Recognition and enforcement of judgments in France and abroad (including within the European Union).

Analysis and assessment of possible criminal penalties at stake;
Representing either individuals and/or companies before the investigating magistrate during the investigation stage and during the judgment proceedings (before the criminal Court);
Representing in the framework of appeals proceedings (writings, hearings and pleadings)

Advising and representing at the pre-litigation stage;
Drafting of requests for infringement seizure, summons and writings in matters of intellectual property and industrial property (patents, trademarks, drawings and designs).

Assistance and/or representation of clients before the Conseil de Prud’hommes (Bureau de conciliation and Bureau de Jugement) and the Court of Appeals
Pre-litigious negotiations with the prospect of reaching a settlement agreement
Negotiations with the Work Inspection in the framework of several issues of Labour law including posting of workers and recourse towards higher administrative authority
Recourse and representation before administrative tribunals