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Our clients trust us; we make all of our decisions and base all of our advice on their interests.

Our legal and strategic support includes an entrepreneurial and pragmatic vision.

We deliver effective solutions with creativity and integrity.

We are responsive, reachable, and we love what we do.

Our team

Irene Bodle

Irene Bodle

Irene Bodle is an English lawyer with substantial experience advising on SaaS, cloud computing, GDPR and IT law. She is used to assisting in the management and evaluation of all legal and commercial risks inherent in operating in the cloud, and advises SaaS business customers and suppliers across all industries.

Raphaël Dana

Raphaël Dana

Raphaël Dana is involved in complex litigation and commercial negotiations, with a focus on intellectual property matters and questions related to new technologies (personal data, financial or health data, software, cybersecurity, etc.). His litigation practice takes him before the French supervisory authority (CNIL), French courts and arbitral tribunals.

Tressy Ekoukou

Tressy Ekoukou

Tressy Ekoukou mainly intervenes in civil and commercial litigation, IT law and new technologies. She assists and advises clients with their IP and IT issues, as well as data protection matters. She is also involved with clients in pre-litigation cases, and sometimes goes to court, representing them before civil and criminal courts.

Gaël le Faou

Gaël le Faou

Gaël le Faou was Tax Director of the National Association of Administrative and Tax Assistance for Lawyers (ANAAFA) for 6 years before devoting himself to tax law as an attorney. He assists companies in dealing with various tax issues (litigation, transactional and reporting obligations). His field of intervention includes issues of national and international taxation, and regularly takes him before administrative and judicial courts.

Henri Michel Reynaud

Henri Michel Reynaud

Trademark attorney and authorized representative before the European Union intellectual property office since 1997, Henri Michel Reynaud became a lawyer with the Paris bar in 2005. He represents our clients before the courts and industrial property authorities. Former partner of a patent consulting firm, he also assists our clients with regard to protection strategies for all industrial products.

Serge Rosenzweig

Serge Rosenzweig

Serge Rosenzweig is a member of the Paris and New York Bars and specializes in corporate, private equity and M&A transactions. With increased skills in the world of start-ups, he supports companies from registration to seed financing, then during the various rounds of fundraising, until exit.

Fabien Chambarlhac

Fabien Chambarlhac

Fabien Chambarlhac assists the main economic players in New Caledonia and the Wallis and Futuna Islands for all their contractual legal needs, and represents them before the local courts and the Nouméa Court of Appeal; in particular, he advises local municipalities, industrial and manufacturing corporations, insurance companies and major retailers.

Christopher Anderson

Christopher Anderson

Having finished a joint J.D. and LLM program, Christopher Anderson is in the process of admission to the Washington, D.C. and Paris Bars. He supplemented his specialized curriculum in international commercial law with internships in investor-state arbitration in Ukraine and in the law of new technologies with our team. He assists our clients on cross-border questions related to their business planning and disputes.

Our skills

Commercial law

Commercial law

Business life implies periodic negotiations of commercial contracts, and daily management of legal situations. We are at your side to manage these tasks. Commercial lease, dispute with a partner or a competitor, we assist you with these matters, hand in hand with your teams, much like an external legal department. We’re just an email or a phone call away from jumping in to help you.

Employment law

Employment law

Our experts support you in all the facets of the complex and ever-changing French labor law. Negotiation of employment contracts, of amendments, day-to-day issues related to your employees, pre-litigation and litigation before the Labor Courts and Courts of Appeal, you can rely on our pragmatism, our pugnacity, and our rational vision to provide you with the best possible advice on all these subject matters.

Privacy Law

Privacy Law

The legislations related to these questions are dense and our expertise provides you with all the necessary support on the specificities of the rules of the European Union and regarding French particularities: "GDPR" compliance audit, project study, assistance before the CNIL, assistance to the DPO, management of contractual relationships with subcontractors, transfer of data in the European Union and beyond, retention periods.

SaaS Agreements

SaaS Agreements

We are recognized for our expert and sharp practice in handling the negotiation of contracts for the provision of software “in SaaS mode”. We master the negotiation of clauses such as SLAs, liability, protection of intellectual property rights, hosting, specific developments and customizations, compliance with deadlines and milestones, roadmaps, penalties, and we also handle and like to manage pre-litigation and litigation in this specific context.

Cyber Security

Cyber Security

Personal data breaches are among the risks that companies must now anticipate and manage at all times. Our team has a strong expertise in providing high-end consulting and incident response support to organizations worldwide. We also help with preventive measures (emergency response plan, business disaster recovery, internal security policies, etc.). We work with the best cyber technology firms, trusted advisors, and security teams.

Fintech

Fintech

We help companies that operate at the crossroads between software and finance: providing assistance in the context of your development, helping with the understanding of and compliance with the regulations that apply to you, relations with control bodies, approval requests. Whether you manage an online platform, a marketplace, we help you navigate and set up the legal foundations in your legal and regulatory environment.

NFTs

NFTs

We have a precise expertise about the specific type of assets that are NFTs, and about the IP rights attached to them. We help NFTs issuers secure their rights going forward, and create the bespoke legal environment taking into account their entry on a blockchain, and their interaction in the Metaverse. We are familiar with the attachment of NFTs to physical assets, with the legal implications that this conveys.

Life Science

Life Science

We support you in reconciling health, technology, and personal data, in the context of digital projects related to the medical world. Computer tools for clinical case studies, patient data analysis software, dematerialized collection of consent, these subjects fascinate us, and we deal with them by your side. Biotech and Medtech are among the innovative players that we support in their growth providing them with legal safety.

Tax law

Tax law

Assistance in the context of all corporate tax matters, litigation, advice, and declarative follow-up. This assistance covers national and international tax issues, and in the context of litigation, leads us to represent you before administrative or judicial jurisdictions. From the outset of a business project, to day-to-day questions, to complex issues, we are your privileged interlocutors and your spokespersons with the tax authorities concerned.

Complex litigation

Complex litigation

We appreciate representing you both in attack and defense, in the context of strategic and complex litigation. We are experienced in emergency procedures, seizures of infringing items, summary proceedings before the First Instance Courts, the Commercial Courts, and the Courts of Appeal. Favoring settlement agreements, when possible, we also take our cases to the Court of Cassation when needed, with our usual representatives before this court.

Corporate

Corporate

Setting-up of your new venture, drafting of shareholders' agreements, support in the context of fundraising, we assist you in all these initial stages. During the life of your company, we handle shareholders meetings, capital transactions and other key stages of your development, including companies’ sales and acquisitions (due diligence, representations and warranties, deeds of transfer, etc.). Day to day questions are typically handled immediately.

Intellectual property

Intellectual property

Protection of your brand, valuation of your intangible assets, trademark registration strategy and monitoring of your portfolios. We help you throughout the life of your brands, patents, and other creations. Our team is comprised of an industrial property attorney and authorized representative with the EUIPO (European Union Intellectual Property Office) and we represent you before judicial courts and trademark offices when necessary.

Contact

We would be happy to hear from you. Whether to share information, get to know each other, or for any question you might have.

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