Goodwin > Paris, France > Firm Profile

‘Excellent knowledge of market practices.’

‘The Goodwin fund formation team is reliable and stable, and retains a good knowledge of the French market. They remain a benchmark firm in the market.’

‘Arnaud David is an excellent team leader.’

‘Efficient, fast, and pragmatic.’

‘The Goodwin VC team is very experienced and this is reflected in all files. The team is very responsive to any request, with excellent quality of deliverables and process management. The team always demonstrates a lot of calm and pragmatism which allows many dangerous situations to be resolved. I thank them for all their work and I hope to have many more opportunities to work with them.’

‘Louis Taslé d’Héliand: Very detailed knowledge of the French ecosystem and already extensive experience in this area. Louis Taslé d’Héliand is highly appreciated by clients for his professionalism and pragmatism which helps resolve many situations. Perfect management of processes and schedules.’

‘Exceptionally efficient, close-knit team well-positioned in their field of excellence: life science and venture. Louis Taslé d’Héliand has extensive experience advising VC funds on portfolio transactions and is able to navigate difficult negotiations in a calm and professional manner to get the best results for his clients.’

‘Thomas Dupont Sentilles – exceptional commitment, perfect mastery of his files, reassuring. Anne-Charlotte Rivière – exceptional commitment, perfect mastery of her files, good in negotiation. Marie Fillon – unparalleled interpersonal skills and technical excellence in her field, recognized by her peers.’

‘An excellent team, always relevant in its comments and reviews, well-informed of market practices. Their strength: finding pragmatic solutions quickly.’

‘Anne-Charlotte Rivière, Louis Taslé d’Héliand: a very good pair who know how to make themselves available in the files and perfectly master their subjects.’

‘Anne-Charlotte Rivière: knowledge of the subject, pragmatism, experience and 360° view (founders, companies, investors).’

‘Highly responsive, client-oriented and pragmatic team with extensive experience in advising on VC deals.’

‘Good availability.’

‘Excellent practice knowledge, agility and strong track-record, mostly on the mid-cap market.’

‘Very good knowledge of the pharmaceutical/health market.’

‘Marie Fillon and Louis de Chazelle form an extremely responsive team, with great analytical and editorial skills.’

‘Marie Fillon has an excellent understanding of business issues and a good approach to negotiations, both contractually and commercially.’

‘Pragmatic approach; listening to the customer and looking for solutions to reach an agreement with the co-contractor’

‘Marie Fillon Marie was able to successfully lead negotiations with a co-contractor who had a less good understanding of market practices for collaboration contracts.’

‘The team demonstrates great professionalism, availability as well as vast experience due to the quality of its members of an office as well as their ability to call on their colleagues in the Goodwin network around the world. The service provided is always of high quality, incorporating current developments relevant to the subject to be discussed.’

‘Marie Fillon – professionalism, availability and expertise.’

‘Marie Fillon is a very sophisticated lawyer on intellectual property and health product licensing matters, responsive and with a very useful commercial vision.’

‘Availability, rigor.’

‘Goodwin has been supporting us on our fund tax issues for more than 4 years and knows our needs, our points of attention and our structures well. The advice is adapted and pragmatic and the team is very available.’

‘Marie-Laure Bruneel is an outstanding tax expert, with a good knowledge of the market and legal decisions. Her approach to taxation is pragmatic and she truly positions herself as our reference tax advisor in France on our fund topics.’

‘The Goodwin tax team (FR, LUX, UK) was reliable, flexible, responsive to our requests and responded to complex and technical questions on time and accurately. ’

‘Very solid experience on complex M&A files and great availability and competence. Maxence Bloch, through his reputation and experience, has the ability to create dialogue between parties and bring points of view closer together.’

‘Maxence Bloch: great experience, pleasant contact, strong involvement in files’.

‘The team has good knowledge and mastery of its files, strong ability to provide relevant and quality advice, a very good level of responsiveness and is of real support during negotiations.’

‘ William Robert demonstrates exemplary rigour in handling files, which allows for complete confidence. William has extensive experience in M&A and corporate matters. Finds pragmatic solutions to problems. ’

‘Very good team that finds adapted solutions’.

‘I work with Sarah Fleury on matters of commercial leases and real estate litigation. Sarah and her team are very competent and very responsive. She is a fine negotiator who makes deals possible.’

‘A very responsive and efficient real estate team. The people in charge do not hesitate to get involved in detail in the processing of the file to result in a service perfectly oriented towards the client’s interest.’