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Baker & McKenzie SCP

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France : Administrative and public law

Within Administrative and public law, Baker & McKenzie SCP is a second tier firm,

Baker & McKenzie SCP is highly recommended for regulatory and public procurement advice, and high-stakes litigation, and sets ‘high-quality standards of service’. The 13-lawyer team is led by the ‘remarkable’ Emmanuel Guillaume and Arnaud Cabanes, who is ‘available night and day’ and ‘always provides excellent and original advice’. The practice advises companies, public sector entities and several major state-owned companies, such as SNCF. It is defending EDF against numerous claims from solar energy producers. Alexia Robbes is the practice’s key expert in urban planning law and public real estate.

France : Banking and finance

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France : Dispute resolution

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France : EU competition and distribution

Within EU competition and distribution, tier 4

Baker & McKenzie SCP received significant instructions to assist clients during several high-profile cartel investigations in 2012, for example advising France Farine in the flour cartel case. The 12-lawyer team also handles merger control work and has leading distribution law expertise through Régis Fabre. Alex Dowding and newly promoted partner Léna Sersiron are also recommended.

France : Employment

Within Employment, Baker & McKenzie SCP is a third tier firm,

Baker & McKenzie SCP’s 24-lawyer team is recommended for its ‘outstanding service and sound knowledge of law’, and is particularly helpful for Anglophone clients. Practice head Denise Broussal ‘keeps cool in highly emotional environments’, and Gilles Jolivet and Olivier Vasset are also key partners.

France : Environment

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France : Health and life sciences

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France : IT, telecoms and the internet

Within IT, telecoms and the internet, Baker & McKenzie SCP is a first tier firm,

Baker & McKenzie SCP’s ‘very good’ 14-lawyer team has experience handling large and cross-border outsourcing, system integration and data privacy projects for major technology users, and also acts for key players in the telecoms and internet sectors. Clients such as Société Générale, Sanofi, Oracle and Sodexo use the firm for their key matters. The practice also spans litigation and regulatory matters. Laurent Szuskin, ‘talented negotiator’ Rémy Bricard and Emmanuel Guillaume are recommended. The team has been reinforced by the recent recruitment of senior counsel Yann Padova, the former general secretary of France’s data protection authority (CNIL).

France : Insolvency

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France : Insurance

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France : Intellectual property

Within Full-service firms, Baker & McKenzie SCP is a third tier firm,

Baker & McKenzie SCP is particularly good at devising global IP protection strategies and is also retained by major clients such as LVMH and Auchan to advise on IP rights acquisitions, portfolio management and licensing, as well as anti-counterfeiting measures. The 13-lawyer team also handles trade mark and copyright litigation. Virginie Ulmann is ‘extremely responsive and practical’, and Jean-François Bretonnière is also recommended.

France : Media and entertainment

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France : Mergers and acquisitions

Within Mergers and acquisitions, tier 4

Baker & McKenzie SCP’s ‘efficient worldwide office network’ allows the Paris team to provide ‘excellent service’ and lead on large multi-jurisdictional transactions. Recent work includes acting on acquisitions for French corporations such as Safran, as well as handling a high volume of strategic French work for major Asian and US clients. The firm notably assisted China Investment Corporation with its acquisition of a 7% stake in Eutelsat. The ‘creative’ and ‘trustworthy’ Stéphane Davin heads the 30-lawyer team. Raphaële François-Poncet and Alyssa Gallot, who is ‘a great player’ who ‘gets things done’, have been heavily involved in recent transactions.

France : Private equity

Within Private equity, Baker & McKenzie SCP is a second tier firm,

Baker & McKenzie SCP, which is ‘very good on complex transactions’, has been advising Axa Private Equity on large cross-border secondary private equity transactions such as its $1.7bn acquisition of assets from Citigroup. Apax Partners is also a client. Bruno Bertrand heads the practice.

France : Project finance and energy

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France : Real estate

Within Real estate, Baker & McKenzie SCP is a third tier firm,

Baker & McKenzie SCP is ‘among the best in real estate tax’, and also excels from a legal perspective. The tax team includes the ‘creative’ Christine Daric and Olivier Mesmin, who has ‘exceptional experience dealing with sophisticated international investors’. Marc Mariani heads the team on the legal side. The practice advised Segro on its acquisition of a portfolio of logistics sites. Other clients include Icade and BNP Paribas REIM.

France : Tax

Within Tax, Baker & McKenzie SCP is a second tier firm,

Baker & McKenzie SCP’s 30-lawyer practice is the largest housed in an international business law firm in France. Christine Daric and Olivier Mesmin, who is ‘a very calm and level-headed adviser’, are the practice’s key property tax specialists, and have leading expertise which attracts key players in the field such as Tishman Speyer and Icade. Eric Meier often handles top litigation and tax audits, while Véronique Millischer, Pierre-Yves Bourtourault and Guillaume Le Camus mainly focus on corporate tax matters. Thierry Vialaneix is the key contact for VAT work, Stéphanie Auféril and Agnès Charpenet specialise in wealth management, and Evelyne Bagdassarian advises on financing. Caroline Silberztein is a transfer pricing expert.

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    For decades, the primary Turkish laws governing leases of residential and business premises have been the Law on Leasing Real Property dated May 27, 1955 (the “Lease Law”) and the Turkish Code of Obligations No. 818 dated April 22, 1926 (the “Obligations Code”). Both of these laws, however, will be repealed and replaced with the new Turkish Code of Obligations No. 6098 dated January 11, 2011 (the “New Obligations Code”), which will enter into force on July 7, 2012.
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  • The new French regulation applying to national insurance contributions for managers and shareholders

    French insurance contributions on executive and shareholder remuneration (pay + dividends) have been substantially increased by the National Insurance Funding for 2013 Act, No. 2012-1404, of 17th December 2012. Until 31st December 2012, all dividends were subject to national insurance contributions on unearned income but henceforth, under Article L136-3 of the National Insurance Code, amended by Act No. 2012-1404, certain dividends   are considered as pay received by executives and shareholders and are therefore subject to the national insurance contributions on pay. The Act also abolished the ceiling on health insurance contributions payable by the self-employed and all this means that businesses must rethink the way that they have been structured until now.
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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.
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  • 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

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  • RECENT DEVELOPMENTS REGARDING COMMITMENTS

    THE PROCEDURE IS CLARIFIED, BUT MAY COMMITMENTS APPLY WITHOUT LIMIT?
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  • 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
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