The firm
Ince & Co in Paris provides advice to clients on both French and English law. With expertise across the firm’s core business areas, Ince Paris is recognised for its experience advising on transport (including superyachts and corporate jets), trade and insurance law, along with ship arrest and release and pollution cases. Lawyers also have wide experience before the French courts and in resolving disputes through arbitration in the International Chamber of Commerce and the Chambre Arbitrale Maritime de Paris.
Ince is renowned for clear legal analysis and tenacious, resourceful commercial dispute resolution, deploying ADR and arbitration, as well as litigation. Underpinning this expertise is a grasp of clients’ commercial needs. Ince provides business and finance advice for corporate clients in a wide range of industries.
Areas of practice
Aviation: The firm advises on regulatory and commercial issues, insurance and reinsurance liability, business jet acquisition, fleet renewal and asset-based financing, reputation, criminal sanctions, aviation contract work, corporate governance, crisis management, strategic safety and brand reputation issues.
Business and finance: non-contentious lawyers advise on general corporate and commercial issues. These range from corporate finance, through employment, to the structuring of international joint ventures. The firm also advises on asset finance, banking, property and private client, telecoms and competition.
Commercial disputes: Ince has a global reputation for its handling of commercial disputes. Almost all partners and associates participate in all forms of dispute resolution, from litigation or arbitration to dialogue, structured negotiations and formal ADR processes such as mediation. The firm handles a wide range of domestic and international disputes including business sale and purchase, design, engineering and construction, D&O liability, financial instruments, fraud, insolvency, bankruptcy, JV and agency agreements, manufacturing and supply contracts, partnerships and shareholders agreements, product liability, property, technology and telecoms.
Energy and offshore: principally oil and gas including LNG, this has been one of Ince’s main practice areas for many years. Expertise covers contentious and non-contentious work: drafting and negotiating contracts, asset and project finance, insurance and dispute resolution.
Insurance and reinsurance: Ince & Co has been involved in most of the leading cases in the evolution of insurance and reinsurance law. The firm covers all aspects of insurance, including marine and non-marine, political risk, personal accident and professional indemnity, plus regulatory and commercial.
International trade: Ince & Co has specialist expertise in all aspects of international trade, including dispute resolution, financing, trading, hedging, storage, transportation, insurance and end use. The firm advises on finance documentation, physical and financial trading terms, freight agreements, regulatory issues and sanctions and environmental issues.
Shipping: with over 140 years of experience, Ince & Co is known worldwide as one of the leading maritime law firms. The firm handles virtually every aspect of maritime law including collisions, salvage, charterparty, carriage of goods, ship finance, workout, general average, personal injury and pollution. Ince has been involved in countless leading arbitrations and court cases and most major maritime casualties.
Emergency response: Ince & Co operates a dedicated international emergency response hotline, manned 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. The service responds to all manner of disasters with particular emphasis on aviation, energy, pollution and shipping. All the offices within the Ince network are connected in order to provide immediate legal and practical advice in crisis situations. The dedicated phone number is +44 20 7283 6999.
Contacts
Gilles Gautier
Fred Vroom
Languages
Dutch
English
French
Spanish
Other offices
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Number of lawyers 257
at this office 17
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