Mr François Zocchetto > De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés > Paris, France > Lawyer Profile

De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés
9 RUE BOISSY D'ANGLAS
75008 PARIS
France
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Work Department

Structure Division: The activities of the Structure Division cover litigation and transactional work in connection with economic actor’s assets, governance and financing.

Position

Firm Partner, François Zocchetto mainly works in corporate and tax law, assisting both public and private actors. Chartered accountant, François Zocchetto began his private career with an audit/accounting and statutory auditor firm, and then founded in 1987 a law firm in business law for SMEs located in Paris and Western France. He has experience of the law applied by public actors and companies, and supports public projects (contracts, urban planning, public procurement, public service delegation) as well as restructuring, acquisition and transfer operations in entities of various sizes. He has held numerous mandates, including Senator of the Mayenne department from 2001 to 2017 and has been Mayor of Laval since 2014.

Languages

French, English

Memberships

François Zocchetto was a member of the French national Bar Council (Conseil de l’ordre des avocats) between 1990 and 1996, as well as of the French law professions reform Commission (Commission de réforme des professions du droit) chaired by Jean-Michel Darrois in 2008.
He has been a member of the Paris Bar since 1987.

Education

He is a graduate of the Ecole supérieure de commerce de Paris (ESCP Europe) and the Institut d’études politiques (IEP) of Paris.

Lawyer Rankings

France > Compliance

Praised for its ‘expertise and responsiveness’, the ‘efficient team’ at De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés handles a broad range of anti-corruption mandates, from the implementation of compliance programmes to internal investigations, in addition to international economic sanctions and export control matters. Matthieu Dary advises clients across the cosmetics, luxury goods, media and real estate sectors on their compliance with Sapin II, while Pierrick Le Goff assists with the deployment and enhancement of compliance programmes. Other key contacts in the group include Thierry Titone and François Zocchetto.

Paris > Compliance: enquêtes et conformité

De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés est pourvu d’une « équipe efficace », «experte et réactive » qui assiste ses clients en matière d’anti-corruption, de sanctions économiques internationales et de contrôle des exportations, ainsi que sur la conception de programmes de conformité et la conduite d’enquêtes internes. Matthieu Dary conseille de nombreux clients spécialisés dans les secteurs des cosmétiques, du luxe, des médias et de l’immobilier sur leurs obligations de conformité Loi Sapin II. Pierrick Le Goff  intervient sur l’élaboration et la revue de programmes de conformité. L’équipe comprend aussi Thierry Titone et François Zocchetto.

Paris > Fusions-acquisitions

De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés assiste de nombreuses PME, plusieurs grands comptes et des groupes étrangers. Le cabinet intervient régulièrement dans des opérations touchant aux secteurs des TMT et de la santé. Il est recommandé pour la gestion d’opérations de petite à moyenne dimension et pour la négociation de partenariats. . Jean-Christophe Amy  , Matthieu Bichon  , François Couhadon  , François Zocchetto   et Julie Cornely   comptent parmi les principaux intervenants.