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Simmons & Simmons LLP

5 BOULEVARD DE LA MADELEINE, 75001 PARIS, FRANCE
Tokyo, Shanghai, Paris, New York, Milan, Madrid , and 11 more

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

Aviation finance

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Banking and finance

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Capital markets

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Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation

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Simmons & Simmons LLP has a ‘good reputation’ through practice head Jacques-Antoine Robert, Thierry Gontard, Alexandre Regniault and newly promoted partner Eric Boillot. The team leads a sector-focused practice (health, high-tech, food and cosmetics) with unmatched expertise for product liability disputes in the pharmaceutical sector.

Dispute resolution: Stock market litigation

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Employment

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Laure Joncour manages Simmons & Simmons LLP’s eight lawyer practice, with Laurence Renard the other key element in the team. The practice advises international companies on matters such as restructuring, collective litigation and implementation of group policies. It represented Acland Capital Investissement on a collective dispute against 200 employees and unions following a mass redundancy.

Health and life sciences

Within Health and life sciences, Simmons & Simmons LLP is a first tier firm,

According to several leading pharmaceutical companies, Simmons & Simmons LLP is ‘the best law firms in the country for product liability work’. Jacques-Antoine Robert heads the firm’s global practice, standing out for his ‘experience and fighting spirit’. The team, which also shows ‘excellent regulatory expertise’, is made up of ‘excellent litigators’, including Alexandre Regniault, who is praised for his ‘strong industry knowledge and pragmatic advice’. The first-class client portfolio consists of pharmaceutical groups, biotechnology companies, private clinics and medical device manufacturers.

IT, telecoms and the internet

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Insolvency

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Intellectual property: Full-service firms

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Mergers and acquisitions

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Project finance and energy: Energy

Within Project finance and energy: Energy, Simmons & Simmons LLP is a first tier firm,

Simmons & Simmons LLP’s project and energy practice is one the firm’s main drivers in Paris. Christophe Asselineau, a very experienced mining expert, leads the team while Yves Baratte was promoted to partner. The 12-lawyer team handles major mining and infrastructure projects in West Africa, mainly working alongside Anglo-Saxon sponsors such as AES Sonel, which it assisted on the development of gas plants in Cameroon. The firm was also Areva’s advisor on its Imouraren uranium project in Niger.

Project finance and energy: Project finance

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Real estate

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Simmons & Simmons LLP’s Edouard Vitry manages the firm’s practice which also includes Arnaud Achard for finance matters, Marc Fredj for corporate work and tax expert Philippe Royou. The ten-lawyer team advises major investment companies (Rockspring, Axa Reim).

Tax

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Simmons & Simmons LLP

  • Failure to counter financial crime: Norwich Union Life

    In December 2007, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) imposed a fine of £1.26m on Norwich Union Life (part of the Aviva Group), one of the largest life insurance businesses in the UK with around seven million customers. The fine related to failures to take reasonable care to establish and maintain effective systems and controls for countering the risks of financial crime. The fine is the latest confirmation of the emphasis being placed on protecting clients and customers from the threat of financial crime.
    - Simmons & Simmons

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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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