Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I. > Paris, France > Firm Profile

‘Very high added value of services. Excellent analyses. Perfect understanding of issues and perfect mastery of client’s needs. Exceptional availability’.

‘Emmanuel Vital-Durand is a remarkable and highly valuable partner. Thomas Brusq is a remarkable associate.’

‘Indispensable team in banking and finance in Paris. Composed of excellent professionals, in particular Stéphane Puel, the team covers all the needs of financial intermediaries, at the legal and fiscal level.’

‘Stéphane Puel is an essential lawyer in the practice of asset management. Great expertise on all subjects.’

‘Great availability, great listeners, consistency in the exchanges, whatever the level of stress and the workload in progress. Great ability to find compromises.’

‘Mr. Olivier Bernardi has demonstrated excellent expertise in banking and financial regulation, very high responsiveness, great availability and an excellent listener.’

‘Complete team on all banking and financial law issues, with partners mastering both legal and practical matters. An exceptional understanding of commercial issues allows Gide’s banking-finance team to give perfectly adapted advice, a perfect knowledge of legal techniques.’

‘Olivier Bernardi, Benjamin Delaunay, Guillaume Goffin and Stéphane Puel have extensive experience, a mastery of legal techniques and the commercial issues of the industry that we rarely encounter. Their personable approach, the elegance of their writing and their politeness make them an unrivalled team.’

‘Benjamin Delaunay in regulatory is essential for his mastery of subjects and his experience.’

‘Olivier Bernardi has extensive knowledge of banking and financial regulations and experience allowing him to immediately understand the issues submitted to him, and to propose relevant and effective solutions.’

‘Eric Cartier Millon: remarkable for his technical competence, his interpersonal skills, in particular the ability to find “win-win” solutions in the event of a blockage, his humility and availability.’

‘Nathalie Benoit: Very good technical skills, pleasant and always available.’

‘A real pleasure to work with this team!’

‘Ability to cover a relatively wide range of legal and tax issues; easy and direct contact with the other partners of the firm in order to provide the right solutions; ability to listen and understand customer issues; search for innovative solutions; very good availability and accessibility.’

‘Gide is characterized by the remarkable availability of the partners and their real involvement in the files entrusted. The team is very efficient, very technically gifted.’

‘Laurent Vincent is very available, courteous and very up to par in terms of knowledge and his ability to deal with the complex legal challenges that we encounter.’

‘High responsiveness and in-depth knowledge of the market make it easy to work with this team.’

‘Extremely satisfied with the relationship with Gide Loyrette Nouel, and in particular Laurent Vincent, who always knows how to be reactive, precise and rigorous. His advice is always wise, proactive.’

‘Excellent technical knowledge of products and markets, innovative and adapted approach, modern, responsive,’

‘Arnaud Duhamel’s presence on a deal is an incredible comfort.’

‘ Clearly one of the leaders in equity capital markets. It demonstrates innovation, flexibility and seeks solutions adapted to the needs of its customers.’

‘Guilhem Richard and Arnaud Duhamel are clearly star lawyers in their practice space. Their relational capacity is superior to that of their colleagues.’

‘We appreciated the availability of the team and its support.’

‘Recognised experts at the forefront of the latest practices.’

‘Attentive to the customer, educational and available.’

‘I really appreciate working with Laurent Vincent, who, on very technical subjects, brings theoretical knowledge and his knowledge of remarkable market practices. He expresses himself very clearly in both English and French and is capable of impressive teaching efforts.’

‘Availability, relevance, analytical capacity.’

‘Impeccable quality of advice. Ability to anticipate the way stock-market authorities will look at a file, perceive it and precede with it. Ability to interact with the stock-market authorities, formally and informally. Perfect balance between professional competence and empathy.’

‘Does not hesitate to delve into subjects that are relatively new to them.’

‘Excellent team, with a clear vision of strengths and weaknesses of a case. Nothing is left to chance. In-depth knowledge of their files. Highly reliable and available team.’

‘Jean-Philippe Pons-Henry is excellent. He knows his files perfectly and can identify critical points. Marie Robert-Schmid is another asset to the practice.’

‘Great expertise on subjects of extreme technicality.’

‘Good listening skills and practical advice’.

‘Guillaume Navarro shows high reactivity on subjects whatever the hour or the day.’

‘Benamin Krief is very reactive, pragmatic and solution-oriented’.

‘François Vergne provides proactive and thoughtful advice in strategic areas of social law and related labour litigation.’

‘The team is always very responsive. The lawyers have good knowledge of our business and our challenges, and always offer appropriate and reassuring solutions.’

‘An excellent customer relationship and sense of service, which complement very good legal expertise on multiple subjects.’

‘The team has the ability to translate complex concepts of employment law into simple follow-up action plans. They simplify French employment law down to a user guide that can be used by non lawyers and even non French individuals.’

‘A team with great expertise, with a deep knowledge of environmental law.’

‘The team is professional, dynamic and capable of responding in a precise, rigorous and creative manner to the essential issues that environmental law represents today.’

‘Expertise, experience, and availability. This team demonstrates great innovation in explaining legal, economic and operational issues.’

‘I have been working with Jean-Nicolas Clément for almost 30 years and the quality is always there.’

‘Jean-Nicolas Clément demonstrates great professionalism and remarkable personal commitment. He shows great talent in the management of litigation cases, in a field of changing law, whose rules are not fixed and without established case law. A big congratulations!’

‘Good availability. The team came up with a solution to each of the topics discussed. Very good follow-up through to the end of the case.’

‘Gide’s competition law practice is of high quality. The team has a remarkable ability to absorb and understand the stakes involved in the case from every angle – regulatory, industrial and commercial. It very quickly identifies the risks and will seek to circumvent them by any means, which it does with great success.’

‘The team led by Emmanuel Reille is exemplary in the way it approaches cases. They are facilitators who have high levels of expertise and know-how in all areas of competition law.’

‘Great professionalism, unfailing availability, and empathy for the client.’

‘Laura Castex is remarkable.’

‘We worked together in a very integrated way, with competent lawyers who are available and eager to understand the challenges for the company in France while highlighting them with the global perspective of an international group. The team was proactive and provided sound advice both during consultations with the Competition Council and during contract negotiations.’

‘I appreciated the pragmatic and constructive approach of Franck Audran and his team, who always listen to the client. This allows them to deal with cases quickly and gives them agility in a very active and fast-moving area of law.’

‘Working with Gide is very comfortable: the quality of the legal work is matched by the quality of the supporting services.’

‘The team has extensive experience in renewables and, more particularly, in solar in France. This makes it possible to have up-to-date knowledge in terms of market practices, which greatly facilitates negotiations.’

‘Alexis Pailleret has seen it all in the industry and is experienced and friendly; Chloé Bouhours is very meticulous and always available.’

‘Marie Bouvet-Guiramand is always looking for a good compromise for clients and is very strong in conducting negotiations. Edouard Bourguet is a hard-worker and always very clear in his recommendations.’

‘The team is skilled in negotiating PPP contracts whose counterparty is a state or a state entity, which remains a unique and specialist exercise because it requires an extremely thorough understanding of the industrial issues in order to adapt a precise legal framework.’

‘Stéphane Vernay is, for me, the master of PPPs and I have never found a lawyer comparable. He has a unique ability to understand industrial and strategic issues in order to propose a legal framework that allows the successful completion of projects. His team is in his image in that members are all quick thinkers too.’

‘Excellent understanding of the wider experience of developing projects in Africa. The team understands the market well and has deep domain expertise and commercial knowledge on the continent.’

‘Victor Grandguillaume is supported by strong associates.’

‘Alexis Pailleret and Chloé Bouhours work rigorously and offer clients flawless support throughout processes. I can fully trust them to detect the slightest errors, check and control everything down to the smallest detail.’

‘What differentiates Gide from other firms is the quality of the team in its availability, patience and resilience, even on the most complicated operations.’

‘Excellent responsiveness, meticulous and very thorough analysis of documents, perfect knowledge of similar files, unwavering support in a real relationship of trust, and excellent results, thanks to Richard Ghueldre and Julie Brulé.’

‘Innovative, responsive and thoughtful team.’

‘Richard Ghueldre stands out for his competence and professional and academic perspective.’

‘Our long-running case has been perfectly managed by Gide Loyrette Nouel for several years now because the team made available to us is made up of real experts, who are able to give us guidance on the possible options and advise us on the best one to follow, which is not so common in the market.’

‘Able to deliver real, high-quality support, combining availability, responsiveness and advice. Given the expertise of this firm in complex litigation of this type, particularly at the procedural level, there is no doubt that it will also be able to advise other clients as well as possible on simpler cases.’

‘Very efficient team formed around a partner who is well known in the sector. A team of very solid, efficient, attentive, inventive colleagues.’

‘Julie Brulé is particularly distinguished within the team by her availability, the strength of her knowledge and the attention she pays to her client. Her advice has a particular quality that I greatly appreciate – it is very informative, which gives full meaning to the notion of advice.’

‘Excellent knowledge of the file, reactivity, extremely judicious proposals. Listen and take into account the clients’ internal constraints.’

‘A great capacity for synthesis, a great understanding of subjects and analysis, and a pugnacity to defend the interests of the client.’

‘Sound yet practical trade mark advice. Very quick turnover.’

‘Emmanuel Larere is a very strong litigator. Great pleasure to work with him. Emmanuel is very knowledgeable and can think of creative, innovative solutions. We can always reach out to him.’

‘Business-oriented; technically excellent; work capacity.’

‘Very good business relationship with Pierre Karpik and Louis Oudot de Dainville, who both make themselves available extremely quickly, have long and valuable experience in VC transactions, and have a pragmatic approach to matters that facilitate conflict resolution.’

‘Unique knowledge of the French ecosystem with unmatched track record in working for tech companies.’

‘Team always available and very responsive to any request with excellent quality of deliverables. Reacts smoothly to any kind of situations as their experience allows them to have already faced almost any situation.’

‘Highly experienced team.’

‘What differentiates from other firms is the quality of the team in its availability, its patience and its resilience even on the most complicated operations, but obviously also in the expertise of the teams in our sector and the cross-border issues; very transparent invoicing with details on each project and by type of team to then have an overall discussion on pricing. Pleasant to have a mixed team!’

‘Quality, availability, resilience – I think that our last two operations would not have succeeded with another firm less committed than Gide.’

‘For an international tech company like ours, the attraction of the Gide team is the breadth of resources that are available to handle all aspects of a project without having to retain multiple firms. Another key benefit is their ability to meet tight timelines that sometimes cannot be avoided.’

‘Louis Oudot de Dainville is particularly relevant in venture. He has real experience on the subject, knows how to be pragmatic when the need arises while defending our interests as well as possible.’

‘The team is incredibly well-prepared and connects well with clients, going above and beyond for them and often thinking outside the box. That is what we look for when hiring counsel.’

‘Victor Grandguillaume thinks beyond the problem and proposes various solutions. It is interesting how well he connects with his clients. Roxane Debuse and Claire Labouré were always very prepared also.’

‘The Gide team is one that brings together varied profiles that work in harmony with each other, efficiently. This allows for a great reactivity, even if the question asked does not directly fall within the field of competence of our first interlocutor.’

‘Marie Bouvet-Guiramand and Magueye Gueye were constantly listening to us, each time proposing an approach in line with good market practices and the aspirations of the client.’

‘The practice’s strength is its ability to advise on the broad spectrum of legal matters pertaining to cross-border industrial projects and its focus on providing tailored, innovative and business-oriented advice.’

‘Stéphane Vernay is an outstanding business lawyer. He is solution-oriented in the way he addresses legal and contractual issues, reliable, hard-working and always delivers on time. He is very dedicated to his clients and the success of their projects. He has a broad knowledge in terms of legal matters, sectors and countries.’

‘The Gide team had a lot of experience relevant to our problem. This team was diligent and engaged in a constructive dialogue with us to ensure the provision of effective solutions and in our best interests.’

‘I could cite in particular Alexandre Gauthier for his ability to listen, the wealth of his experience and his ability to find new paths to better resolve the issues faced.’

‘Hugues Moreau, Eric Martin-Impératori and very promising partner Cléopha Thomann are key players in the market, whom deliver legal services of exceptional quality.’

‘Bertrand Oldra is extremely useful in negotiations, with a great ability to be firm in positions whilst knowing how to propose solutions to reconcile the constraints of the the different parties involved. Etienne Chesneau is also an excellent and very hardworking practitioner.’

‘Bertrand Oldra is extremely responsive, pushing research to provide an understanding of the subject, including risks and issues, allowing the client to have a fairly detailed and precise understanding of the problem addressed. They know how to quickly formulate recommendations but remain very attentive and adapt their recommendations with a real concern for final efficiency.’

‘Nicolas Planchot provides exceptional transaction management and commercial advice.’

‘Hugues Moreau is collaborative, creative, passionate, honest and excellent overall; Sibylle Chomel de Varagnes is very clearly a future leader in her field, an excellent lawyer, and always available to the client; Nadège Nguyen displays perfect mastery of the law, is excellent negotiator who forms excellent client relationship.’

‘Constantin Miliotis and Eric Martin-Imperatori are highly experienced lawyers in complex real estate transactions. Their strengths are unique expertise, strong responsiveness, valuable assistance in negotiating contracts and availability at all times.’

‘Christopher Szostak and Bertrand Garrandaux have a great ability to anticipate possible obstacles to a transaction and to propose innovative solutions. Chistopher Szostak is also very comfortable with the international dimension of certain issues.’

‘Frederic Nouel is the cornerstone of the real estate practice at Gide. He knows the actors and practices perfectly. He knows how to combine a sense of negotiation, understanding of the issues and ability to conclude combined with an excellent knowledge of the legal issues.’

‘Excellent knowledge of criminal law and compliance issues from Sophie Scemla, with a very pragmatic and practical approach to resolving difficulties and applying texts. High availability and monitoring through, in particular, regular newsletters which facilitate access to information for its customers and understanding of the applicable regulations.’

‘Very in-depth knowledge of the field, ability to find solutions, very good analysis of subjects, very close to customers.’

‘Highly skilled and responsive team. Very capable working English to French and vice versa. Excellent on complex law around SPCs.’

‘Emmanuel Larere, Raphaëlle Dequiré-Portier – exceptional partners.’

‘Familiarity with tech business models and upcoming legal developments.’

‘Thierry Dor and Julien Guinot Deléry both have a very good knowledge of the market and are very responsive.’

‘The team is very reactive and fundamentally interested and experienced in this area.’

‘Dane Tacchini shines with her mastery of telecommunications law, and does not hesitate to present a set of relevant solutions for often complex situations.’

‘A very high quality team; always very responsive and innovative.’

‘Growing expertise in the NFTs and metaverse sector.’

‘Among the many Parisian M&A teams, the Gide team composed of Olivier Diaz and Charles de Réals is exceptional. They offer a perfect combination of experience, renewed and innovative competence, as well as intellectual agility so that ‘every transaction is indeed different’.’

‘Olivier Diaz is among the most experienced lawyers for complex, multi-jurisdictional and/or high value M&A projects. His experience makes him one of the few irreplaceable players in Paris. His determined and persuasive, yet serene and courteous attitude make him one of the most appreciated interlocutors of managers.’

‘Charles de Réals assists Olivier Diaz in the largest transactions, and has developed an independent M&A practice. He has a lot of experience with major clients who trust him over time. Charles is extremely available, takes the time to immerse himself in the context and the specific issues of the sector and its customers: the discussions are therefore fluid and pleasant.’

‘Perfect understanding of the activity. The firm being full service, there is always an assurance of having recourse to the appropriate expertise if specific subjects arise during the deal. The team is also very agile. Generally, in addition to the partner, a middle lawyer is present on the deal and there is always the assurance of having a follow-up/back-up throughout the file thanks to the large staff of the firm.’

‘Jean-Gabriel Flandrois is a very pragmatic lawyer while having a great sense of precision. Excellent negotiator, he knows how to perfectly defend the problems of his clients as well as counterparties in order to propose satisfactory solutions for all parties to the deal. It should also be noted that the employees within the firm are always fully trained.’

‘Very responsive and competent team.’

‘The GIDE team demonstrated strong leadership in the transaction, being always very pro-active in moving the transaction forward and always ahead of the game. The GIDE team was also able to manage very efficiently the various parties involved both on the sell side and on the buy side. The team provided high quality advice in the negotiations in order to get the best deal done within the constraints we were facing in terms of timing and funding.’

‘We worked with the team of Anne Tolila for an acquisition transaction whose value was several billion euros. The transaction was on an extremely complex perimeter with an extremely short execution time, which requires a team of lawyers of the greatest professionalism’

‘An excellent team that perfectly masters the operational challenges of asset management (particularly real estate) with a very strong ability to cover the regulatory and tax structuring and the underlying funds with consistent high-level services.’

‘Stéphane Puel and his partners Guillaume Goffin and Benjamin Delaunay are key players in fund structuring and without hesitation constitute the most efficient team in the market.’

‘Excellent skills, very good knowledge of the sector.’

‘Extensive knowledge of investment funds and distribution channels, efficiency, quality of service provided, competitive fees.’

‘Leading fund structuring team in Paris, which can cover different asset classes and innovative topics thanks to one of the best regulatory practices in Paris.’

‘Stéphane Puel is the leader of the practice, particularly on private debt matters or innovation matters. Benjamin Delaunay is a rising star in the real estate sector.’

‘The Gide team has knowledge of the asset management industry that spans all ranges of assets (debt, real estate and private equity) with knowledge of trends and market practices that enable it to have relevant insight into private asset funds.’

‘Stéphane Puel has knowledge of the legal, regulatory and tax environment which has very little equivalent among its competitors and which makes him one of the best informed lawyers on the market insofar as the clients that he advises regularly allow him to have a vision of this environment with a practical aspect that makes all the quality of his advice.’

‘Working with Gide provides access to a “full-service” offer including all the specialties that may be useful during an M&A operation: competition law, labor law, etc. which makes it possible to only have to deal with a single firm working in coordination instead of having to deal with several different specialized firms. In addition, Gide has a network of “tier 1” law firms internationally, such as Chiomenti in Italy and Vinge in Sweden.’

‘Antoine de la Gatinais (M&A) is calm and has a pragmatic approach which allows for constructive discussions with all stakeholders. Always available, he knows how to work in a team and in particular mobilizes all the capacities of Gide to always bring in the best specialists.’

‘Ability to respond very quickly to complex questions about the investment plan of resident managers in more than 20 European countries. Ability to adapt to changes in current LBO orientations, and to different environments related to types of outputs (IPO and sales), allowing the preservation of the interests of managers.’

‘In particular, they have unparalleled know-how in terms of Management Packages, with a dedicated team that is extremely professional, sharp and strong in terms of proposal.’

‘I have worked several times with the team in particular Caroline Lan and Jean-François Louit, who are excellent professionals mastering the technique perfectly.’

‘The team is very familiar with indirect real estate investments and real estate joint-ventures. Ability to provide cross-border France-Germany advice in an integrated manner.’

‘Ability to review financial documents and BPs from a fiscal but also financial perspective. Provides decision-making support in a complex environment. The team is always very courteous and available.’

‘Extensive knowledge of corporate taxation and management issues. International approach which allowed us to understand taxation issues from a European point of view. Excellent knowledge of the taxation of the managers’.

‘Responsive, transparent, efficient, cost-conscious.’

‘Paul de France is an excellent professional, informative, inventive, daring and skilful.’

‘Confidence, technicality, constancy, responsiveness, proactivity, availability. Their memos are very concise and very clear, and they know how to take a stand.’

‘Olivier Dauchez is a reference and a gifted tax lawyer on the market. Beyond his indisputable technical skills, he has this ability to take a step back from issues at hand. He perfectly masters underlying financial and legal mechanisms, and understands the real issues facing companies. He is also a very friendly, responsive and available person.’

‘Bertrand Jouanneau is very responsive. In terms of invoicing, Bertrand is organized in such a way as to offer packages with caps, which are rather well calibrated from the start and on which we generally do not have to go back.’

‘Excellent reports, very easy, with a perfect mutual understanding of issues and strategy.’

‘A household name in the legal community, Sophie Scemla, who is a senior partner and business crime specialist, is one of the leading lawyers in France practising in this specialised area.’

‘Excellent knowledge of the sector of activity and the complexity of the internal organization of a large company; excellent customer service.’

‘The Gide arbitration team has strength in depth as well as deep-rooted expertise in international arbitration. This is one of the strongest and most sophisticated teams in Paris for commercial or investment arbitration.’

‘Carole Malinvaud’s approach in cases as counsel is informed by her invaluable experience as an arbitrator. She has excellent judgement.’

‘Sacha Willaume is a terrific advocate and team leader who is destined for great things. His work instils confidence and he is always one step ahead in spotting strategic issues.’

‘All lawyers in the arbitration team are committed to giving advice and providing quality service. Their top-notch multilingual and multicultural team is made up of some of the most experienced and reputable lawyers.’

‘Saadia Bhatty is widely recognized as one of the foremost international arbitration lawyers. She understands Africa. She has acted and still acts as an expert for the African Union.’

‘Very good team. Parity between men and women well respected. Good mix between French and international team. Very good cooperation with the litigation teams which allows a less formatted approach to arbitration of cases. Excellent cross-examination skills.’

‘Alexandra Munoz demonstrates a good mastery over her files, is calm, and strong in cross-examination. Christian Camboulive has great experience and is a talented speaker.’

‘Saadia Bhatty is a well-known international arbitration specialist. She has extensive experience in international arbitration, provides invaluable insights and inspirational leadership.’