Proskauer Rose LLP > Paris, France > Firm Profile
Proskauer Rose LLP Offices
374 RUE SAINT-HONORÉ
75001 PARIS
France
Proskauer Rose LLP > The Legal 500 Rankings
France > Employment Tier 2
Proskauer Rose LLP acts for international and domestic clients active in a range of sectors on restructurings, major layoffs, collective dispute resolution and strategic corporate governance issues. Yasmine Tarasewicz leads the team, focusing on collective labour law and collective agreement negotiation, while also active in corporate restructurings. Béatrice Pola provides further support handling HR crisis matters and high-profile litigation. Nicolas Léger is another key team member. Alexandra Stocki left the firm.Practice head(s):
Yasmine Tarasewicz
Other key lawyers:
Testimonials
‘Responsive team that listens to its customers’ issues. The firm has also been able to provide relevant and adapted advice in very different sectors of activity. I also used the firm for internal training activities and it was perfect. ’
‘Béatrice Pola is the partner with whom I have worked for many years and who has been able to create a relationship of trust in relation to her legal advice and support in sometimes complex files. Béatrice is very available and responsive to my emergencies.’
‘Excellent expertise and highly appreciated interpersonal skills, whether with top management or the teams in charge of legal files. The team systematically seeks the most appropriate solution, best meeting the company’s challenges. The team’s pragmatic approach is greatly appreciated. ’
‘Béatrice Pola: quality of exchanges, responsiveness and excellence in analyzing situations, pragmatic approach taking into account the challenges of the company, impeccable customer service.’
‘Very high availability and a very high level of expertise in complex areas of social law (job protection plan and business transfer in particular).’
‘Excellent mastery of the subject and its latest developments, knowledge of business issues, extensive experience of similar cases allowing feedback to be drawn. Pragmatism.’
Key clients
General Electric
Renault
France > Mergers and acquisitions
France > Banking and finance: transactional work
France > Private equity: LBO
Proskauer Rose LLP > Firm Profile
Firm Overview:
Proskauer is an international law firm with over 800 lawyers in 12 offices in the world’s major financial centers in America, Europe and Asia. Founded in 1875 in New York, Proskauer Rose established its Paris office in 1991. The firm has one of the leading transactional practices in France. Our team advises prominent French and international companies, investment funds, financial institutions (debt funds and banks), leading industrial and services groups and management teams.
We support our clients in a wide range of complex domestic, cross-border and international transactions. Our lawyers work closely with teams from other offices in the network on strategic transactions. The firm also handles clients’ international arbitration needs.
Main Areas of Practice
Private Equity:
Proskauer’s highly regarded private equity team in Paris provides first-rate representation to national and international investment funds, debt funds, senior banks, industrial and services groups as well as sponsors and lenders. We are actively involved in all aspects of the private equity life cycle, partnering with clients on their most complex and high-profile domestic and cross border private equity transactions. We have extensive wide-ranging capabilities and experience spanning mid-cap and upper mid-cap private equity, private and public M&A and leveraged finance, including direct lending and restructuring. Our experience spans a broad range of industries, including financial services, telecoms, infrastructure, energy, manufacturing, healthcare, retail, industrials, media and technology.
M&A:
Our Paris based M&A team advise on the full range of business combinations – cross border and domestic, such as acquisitions/divestitures of privately-owned and listed companies, tender offers, joint ventures and strategic alliances, contributions of assets, mergers and spin-off and leveraged buy-out transactions. Our strong presence in key financial centers around the world allows us to serve our clients’ interests globally. We have a deep understanding of the structuring, cultural and procedural issues that are often at the center of complex cross-border transactions. We seek to leverage our transactional depth and industry experience to add value for our clients and believe that our commitment has been validated by long-tenured clients that continue to turn to us for their most significant and transformative transactions. We are recognized as the place to turn when a deal is innovative and game-changing in the world of infrastructure, financial services, sports, life sciences, media and entertainment, health care, hospitality and consumer goods. We provide strategic, disciplined, and commercial advice geared towards achieving our clients’ goals in an efficient and practical manner.
Finance:
The Paris Finance Group enjoys an excellent reputation in the market with a team of lawyers bringing to bear a remarkable breadth of expertise in LBOs and leveraged acquisition finance, representing financial institutions (mainly debt funds) as well as sponsors and borrowers. Our experience extends to the acquisition finance of listed companies, public offerings and block acquisitions. We also advise debtors, creditors and/or sponsors in the context of leverage debt restructuring operations and we are well positioned to engage in transactions globally, with offices in major financial centers around the world.
The diversity of our finance practice gives us unparalleled market knowledge, and our representation of both lenders and borrowers provides us with the ability to appreciate critical deal points from the perspective of all parties to the transaction.
International Arbitration:
The firm’s international arbitration group handles the full range of cross-border commercial disputes, including those involving mergers and acquisitions, investments, distribution contracts, licensing agreements, supply and manufacturing contracts, shareholder agreements and joint venture agreements. The partners in its group act as counsel and arbitrator in international arbitrations involving corporations from the US, Europe, Latin America and Asia and held all over the world and under all the major international arbitration rules, including in particular those of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), the American Arbitration Association’s International Centre for Dispute Resolution (ICDR), the London Court of International Arbitration (LCIA), the Japan Commercial Arbitration Association, and the Swiss Chambers of Commerce. The firm’s clients are in many different industries, notably pharmaceutical, sports, consumer products, construction, insurance and reinsurance, telecommunications, new media, energy, finance, lodging and gaming, and real estate. The firm is increasingly sought out by clients in these sectors as a result of its reputation for understanding their core business drivers and achieving successful outcomes. The firm’s fluency in English, French, Spanish and German and its knowledge of and sensitivity to different cultures and jurisdictions enable it to effectively represent clients before international arbitration tribunals.
Main Contacts
Department | Name | Telephone | |
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Xavier Norlain | xnorlain@proskauer.com | 33.1.53.05.60.73 |
Lawyer Profiles
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