Mr Jean-Daniel Bretzner > Bredin Prat > Paris, France > Lawyer Profile

Bredin Prat’s team attracts instructions for high-end litigation skills from blue-chip French and international companies as well as investment funds for high-stakes corporate litigation and shareholder conflicts. The team regularly acts in challenging litigation involving top-listed French companies in state-of-the-art commercial and financial litigation and also regularly handles antitrust follow-on and bankruptcy-related work. It has been retained recently to act in one of the country’s first judicial recourses initiated on the basis of France’s still recent duty of vigilance law. The practice is led Sébastien Prat, Jean-Daniel Bretzner, Florian Bouaziz and Eve Duminy, with counsels Calmann Bellity  and Tom Vauthier providing further support.

Bredin Prat is a leading name in the field. A perfect fit to the firm’s high-end public M&A practice, the litigation team intervenes in headline public takeover battles concerning the country’s most high-profile companies. The team also acts for leading listed companies in dealing with sensitive shareholders’ conflicts and governance issues, while its range of expertise also extends to assisting listed companies, executives and other financial players facing AMF-led stock-market breach investigations. Key names in the team include litigators Jean-Daniel Bretzner and Florian Bouaziz  and white-collar expert Eric Dezeuze.