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Norton Rose LLP

PARISEIGHT, 40 RUE DE COURCELLES, 75 008 PARIS, FRANCE
Warsaw, Tokyo, Sydney, Singapore, Shanghai, Sandton , and 28 more

What we say about the firm's legal practice in France

Administrative and public law

Within Administrative and public law, Norton Rose LLP is a third tier firm,

At Norton Rose LLP, Philippe Malléa’s ten-lawyer team manages a high number of public law and PPP projects. The firm has a strong involvement assisting public entities, governmental bodies and sponsors, handling key instructions in the transport, university and hospital sectors. Highlights included assisting the Préfecture de Police de Paris on its video surveillance project, and Eiffage on the BPL project.

Aviation finance

Within Aviation finance, Norton Rose LLP is a first tier firm,

Norton Rose LLP has a superb practice, led by the market’s leading figures George Paterson and Marc Hamilton – Glenn Matheson retired in 2010. The team advises all the major banks involved in the aviation field, handling credit export and tax leasing work, with the practice also reaching to the Asian market. It assisted Deustche Bank, Commerzbank and Oberbank on the French tax lease financing of Lufthansa’s first Airbus A380 and completed a number of transactions for CACIB.

Banking and finance

Within Banking and finance, Norton Rose LLP is a second tier firm,

Headed by Anne Lapierre, a specialist in the renewable field, Norton Rose LLP’s main assets are its large banking client base and its leading asset finance expertise, through key partners Georges Paterson, Martin Gdanski, Christine Ezcutari and Marc Hamilton – shipping finance expert Alain Gautron left the firm to join Stephenson Harwood in 2010. The aviation finance practice is second to none in the market, the team advising Deutsche Bank, Commerzbank and Oberbank on the financing of Lufthansa’s first Airbus A380. The firm also deals with acquisition finance work through Erwan Héricotte.

Capital markets

Within Capital markets, Norton Rose LLP is a third tier firm,

Norton Rose LLP’s Roberto Cristofolini and Marie-Aude Noury lead an 11-lawyer team dedicated to equity and equity-linked transactions. The practice is strongly involved on the banking side, while also handling deals for issuers. Highlights included assisting Calyon, Lazard-Natixis and Société Générale on Neopost’s issuance of €300m convertible bonds, and Mr. Bricolage and Société Générale on Mr. Bricolage’s OBSAAR issuance.

Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation

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EU competition and distribution

Within EU competition and distribution, tier 4

Norton Rose LLP’s Mélanie Thill-Tayara continued to actively develop the firm’s practice, gaining new clients and handling high-profile work. Of counsel Marta Giner Asins also receives client praise. The practice advises prominent clients in the pharmaceutical, luxury and press distribution fields. It represented long-term client Les Messageries Lyonnaises de Presse as third party in the contemplated acquisition of Soprocom by Presstalis, and acted for Schering-Plough regarding the legality of a dawn raid.

Health and life sciences

Within Health and life sciences, Norton Rose LLP is a second tier firm,

Norton Rose LLP’s Mélanie Thill-Tayara advises leading laboratories on strategic antitrust matters. Medtronic and Schering-Plough are clients, as is Sanofi-Aventis, which the team successfully represented in first-instance proceedings regarding the termination of negotiations with Sepal Pharma over the investments in the development of new cancer-fighting molecules.

IT, telecoms and the internet

Within IT, telecoms and the internet, Norton Rose LLP is a third tier firm,

DLA Piper’s ‘level of expertise, timely responses, pragmatic approach and international network are its strongest assets’. The IT and telecoms practice went through tough times in 2010; Marc d’Haultfoeuille departed to Norton Rose LLP while IT expert Stéphane Lemarchand joined from Bird & Bird AARPI. Patrick Boiron and Carol Umhoefer remain part of the team. The firm assisted KPN on the drafting of an MVNO agreement with Bouygues Telecoms.

Insolvency

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Insurance

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Media and entertainment: Full-service firms

Within Media and entertainment: Full-service firms,

DLA Piper advises legendary Hollywood studios MGM and NBC Universal. The firm has a strong presence in the audiovisual sector, handling copyright, IP, regulatory, commercial and litigation matters. The team is led by Patrick Boiron and includes patent specialist Jean-Christophe Tristant, who arrived from Latham & Watkins, while Marc d’Haultfoeuille joined Norton Rose LLP.

Mergers and acquisitions

Within Mergers and acquisitions, tier 6

Norton Rose LLP’s practice is driven by Hervé Castelnau, who is strongly recommended for deals in the TMT sector, and Alain Malek, who focuses on transactions in the EMEA zone. Jean-François Mercadier and Anne-Sylvie Vassenaix-Paxton left to join Canadian firm Heenan Blaikie. The firm is a major player in the Maghreb region, handling numerous and strategic deals such as advising France Télécom on its acquisition of a 40% stake in Médi Télécom.

Private equity

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Project finance and energy: Energy

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Project finance and energy: Project finance

Within Project finance and energy: Project finance, Norton Rose LLP is a second tier firm,

Norton Rose LLP is a major player in the French PPP market through Philippe Malléa, who is adept at advising sponsors, public entities and governmental bodies, while developing the firm’s involvement on the banking side. The team assisted Eiffage on the BPL project and the EIB on the GSM railway communication project. The firm also manages projects abroad, notably in Africa, and has a leading practice on renewables in France through the ‘very experienced’ Anne Lapierre who acts for sponsors and lenders. She recently assisted EDF Energies Nouvelles on the conclusion of a partnership with the EIB on a French solar project programme.

Shipping finance

Within Shipping finance, Norton Rose LLP is a first tier firm,

Norton Rose LLP’s supremacy in the French market suffered a severe blow following the departures of Alain Gautron and tax lease expert Stéphane Salou for Stephenson Harwood. The practice is now led by Christine Ezcutari, assisted by Laurence Toxé on the tax side. Highlights included advising Société Générale on the tax lease financing of six container ships for CMA CGM.

Tax

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What we say worldwide

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United Arab Emirates

Offices in Dubai and Abu Dhabi

Australia

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Belgium

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Bahrain

Offices in Manama

China

Offices in Beijing and Shanghai

Czech Republic

Offices in Prague

Germany

Offices in Munich, Frankfurt, and Hamburg

France

Offices in Paris

Greece

Offices in Athens and Piraeus

Hong Kong

Offices in Hong Kong

Indonesia

Offices in Jakarta

India

Italy

Offices in Milan and Rome

Japan

Offices in Tokyo

Kuwait

London

Offices in London

Libya

Morocco

Netherlands

Offices in Amsterdam

Poland

Offices in Warsaw

Qatar

Russia

Offices in Moscow

South Africa

Offices in Cape Town, Sandton, and Durban

Singapore

Offices in Singapore

Saudi Arabia

Offices in Riyadh

Thailand

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Tunisia

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Legal Developments in France

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  • CHINA - PERSONAL TAXATION AND SOCIAL SECURITY : CHINESE AND FOREIGN NATIONALS ON AN EQUAL FOOTING

    The People's Republic of China has initiated an overhaul of its social security system, reformed the personal taxation regime and has extended the scope of these laws to foreigners residing in China.
    - Lefèvre Pelletier & associés

  • MOROCCO TO BECOME THE LEADING FINANCIAL PLACE IN AFRICA

    The Kingdom of Morocco is supporting the ambition of becoming the leading financial place for Africa. In this context, a wave of draft laws is to be passed and implemented within the following months, amongst which, the Law No. 53.08, setting up a new financial authority, and the Law No. 54.08, reforming public offering rules, are of paramount importance to Moroccan and foreign issuers, and financial institutions.
    - Lefèvre Pelletier & associés

  • ACQUISITIONS IN CHINA : ASSET OR SHARE DEAL?

    The opportunities offered to foreign investors by the Chinese mergers and acquisitions market are increasing every year: in 2010, transactions involving foreign companies came to 60.1 billion euros, an increase of 21.2% compared with 2009. Seen from the West, where markets are declining, all sectors of the Chinese economy seem to be undergoing promising development and the statistics indicate that the Middle Empire will be a lasting springboard for growth.
    - Lefèvre Pelletier & associés

  • Prime de Partage des Profits

    Le dispositif L’article 1er de la loi de financement rectificative de la Sécurité sociale pour 2011 oblige les sociétés commerciales de 50 salariés et plus, dont les dividendes par part sociale ou par action sont en augmentation par rapport à la moyenne des deux années précédentes, à verser une prime à l’ensemble de leurs salariés
    - Sarrau Thomas Couderc

  • BULGARIA MARKET OVERVIEW

    Types of investors The private equity (PE) funds that are active in Bulgaria are not raised or registered in the country. Some Bulgarian PE funds were raised recently, but there are no statistics as to the sources of their funding, their number, the funds that were accumulated, etc.
    - BOYANOV & CO.

  • RECENT DEVELOPMENTS REGARDING COMMITMENTS

    THE PROCEDURE IS CLARIFIED, BUT MAY COMMITMENTS APPLY WITHOUT LIMIT?
    - Vogel & Vogel

  • Landmark decision by French Competition Authority in conditioned LPG case

    cartel case closed after discovery that leniency application was largely based on forgeries and rejection of collective dominant position objection.
    - Vogel & Vogel

  • 2012 supplementary budget

    The second supplementary budget published in the Official Gazette September 19, 2011 provides for two key measures that affect the deferral of tax losses and taxation of capital gains realized on the sale of equity securities .
    - Sarrau Thomas Couderc

  • Actualité législative fiscale

    Au delà des mesures applicables à l’ensemble des contribuables (telles que la limitation du report des déficits ou la réforme du mode de calcul des plus values sur cessions de participations),le plan de réduction des déficits annoncé le 24 août dernier par le gouvernement comprend des mesures qui intéressent spécifiquement les acteurs du secteur financier.
    - Sarrau Thomas Couderc

  • Réforme fiscale

    À la une Parmi les mesures annoncées par le Premier Ministre dans le cadre du plan de réduction des déficits, deux d’entre elles sont susceptibles d’affecter de nombreuses entreprises
    - Sarrau Thomas Couderc
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