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Actance Offices
152 BIS, RUE DE LONGCHAMP
75116 PARIS
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France > Employment Tier 1
Actance is distinguished for its skills in employment litigation, collective bargaining negotiation and restructurings. The firm’s cross-sector expertise allows it to represent a diverse client portfolio spanning various industries. Loïc Touranchet specialises in collective bargaining, high-risk litigation and restructuring. Pierre-Alexis Dumont advises national and international companies on HR issues and employee relations. Emeric Sorel is another leading figure in the team.Practice head(s):
Virginie Audet; Franck Blin; Chloé Bouchez; Eliane Chateauvieux; Laurence Chrebor; Pierre-Alexis Dumont; Laurent Jammet; Aymeric de Lamarzelle; Sébastien Leroy; Nelly Pourtier; Jean-Michel Renucci; Sophie Rey; Marion Robert; Emeric Sorel; Loïc Touranchet; Lucie Vincens
Testimonials
‘Attentive, great capacity to absorb significant workloads and respond to peaks in our activities, perfect mastery and expertise on all subjects of social rights.’
‘Emeric Sorel and Caroline Carmier are recommended for their perfect legal mastery, their valuable solutions and their pragmatism.’
‘Responsive, pragmatic, reliable team, which provides fair advice on all matters of social law.’
‘Highly recommend Caroline Carmier for her ability to make herself available and dig into the points to provide complete insight, and Emeric Sorel for his experience and his perspective.’
‘Lucie Vincens and Emeric Sorel are committed, adaptable, with a vision to support strategic choices in the implementation of social policy.’
‘Loïc Touranchet: responsiveness, quality of responses provided, adaptability to the business, availability, compliance with communicated deadlines.’
‘ he main quality of the Actance teams, in addition to their great professionalism, is their responsiveness and their ability to put themselves in the place of their interlocutors.’
‘Emeric Sorel’s honesty, combined with his professionalism and expertise, make him a rare person.’
Key clients
PWC
Vivendi
Upsa
Le Figaro
Renault
Metlife
S&P (+IHS)
Eaton
Velux
BPCE
Elior
Suez
Remy Cointreau
Sisley
Natixis
Schneider Electric
Altice
Abbott
Publicis
Dassault Systèmes
Moody’s
Nexity
Zurich
Thales
Colgate
Ecolab
Work highlights
- Advised the successive court-appointed administrators throughout the receivership, then the liquidation of the Ventoris group, resulting in the economic redundancies of 3,200 employees over 15 entities
- Advised Eaton (French and US teams) on the closing down of their Aerospace site in Southern France in S1 2023 (transfer of the business to Tijuana and Bengalore)
- Advised Vivendi in dealing with all employment issues concerning the sale of Editis and Gala to Lagardère
Actance > Firm Profile
The firm: Actance specialises in employment law through the advisory services and the legal assistance that it provides to companies.
Actance partners with large corporations and groups with both a domestic and international footprint, including many listed companies. The firm also helps mid-size companies that wish to expand by adopting a genuine social policy and managing labour-management relations better. The sectors of activity it is involved in include banking, insurance, industry, pharmaceuticals, automotive, chemicals, advertising and the media.
Actance has a strong track record in handling and managing litigation, in particular high-risk disputes and criminal labour law.
Its success in carrying out assignments is due to its intimacy with clients and to its responsiveness and flexibility in managing and monitoring the cases they entrust it with, and to its knowledge of the ways they are organised and operate.
The firm’s mode of organisation and its size enable it, whatever the scope and complexities of the issues it is asked to address, to meet the requests for availability and responsiveness necessary to resolve them successfully. Ongoing assistance contracts between Actance and many of its clients are a way of fulfilling clients’ demand for a more integrated approach and long-term relationships.
Areas of practice
Employment: collective labour relations: industry-wide, group or company-wide collective bargaining; management of relations with staff representatives and trade unions; corporate reorganisation and restructurings; management of industrial disputes; job forecast management; collective bargaining on the employment of seniors, gender equality; personal data protection, codes of ethics, corporate IT guidelines; compensation policy and employees’ saving schemes; employee shareholding policy and stock options; number of hours worked and organisation of working time; acquisition or compliance audits; and occupational training. Health at work: negotiation on the prevention of psychosocial risks, hardship; management of relations with the health and safety committee and its experts; and individual procedures leading to recognition of employees’ incapacity for work. Individual labour relations: drafting of contracts of employment and their specific clauses (non-compete covenants, staff mobility, penalty clause for training); amendment to contracts of employment; prevention of risks of discrimination and inequitable treatment; secondment and expatriation; dismissal procedures for personal reasons; and situation of company officers.
Social security and complementary social protection legislation: accruals audits; relations between companies and supervisory authorities; pension systems; and retirement schemes, in particular supplementary schemes.
Litigation: assistance and representation before civil, criminal and administrative courts; individual labour disputes (before labour courts); professional election-related disputes or regarding appointment of trade union representatives (before lower courts); collective litigation (before the administrative court and the court of first instance); social security claims (before the social security court); and criminal liability of legal entities or their officers (before the police court or criminal court). It also appeals cases before employment divisions of Courts of Appeal.
Criminal labour: liability of company officers and delegations of authority; compliance audits; and criminal sanctions for hampering the functioning of staff representatives.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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Employment | Franck Blin | ||
Employment | Philippe Chapuis | ||
Employment | Eliane Chateauvieux | ||
Employment | Pierre-Alexis Dumont | ||
Employment | Laurent Jammet | ||
Employment | Loïc Touranchet | ||
Employment | Lucie Vincens | ||
Employment | Emeric Sorel |
Lawyer Profiles
Photo | Name | Position | Profile |
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Pierre-Alexis Dumont | Pierre-Alexis assists both domestic and international companies and groups, in particular the… | View Profile | |
Laurent Jammet | Laurent’s main fields of expertise are collective bargaining, reorganization operations, transfers of… | View Profile | |
Emeric Sorel | Emeric assists national and international groups and companies in resolving issues relating to… | View Profile | |
Loïc Touranchet | Loïc helps groups as part of collective bargaining (Annual Mandatory Negotiation, working… | View Profile |
Staff Figures
Number of lawyers : 61 at this office : 57Languages
English French German Italian SpanishMemberships
EELA (European Employment Lawyers Association)Other
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