BG2V > Paris, France > Firm Profile

BG2V
40/42 RUE LA BOÉTIE
75008 PARIS
France

France > Dispute resolution: White-collar crime Tier 3

BG2V manages a diverse caseload featuring corruption, bribery, money laundering, fraud, harassment and work concealment-related files. The firm stands out for its regular involvement alongside international internet companies which it assists with digital libel and criminal liability accusations concerning online posts on their sites. The team also has strong know-how in the food sector where it represents major food companies following food accident events or in dealing with side effects allegations concerning their products. The team is also retained by individuals and foreign nationals facing serious investigations, often concerning tax fraud and embezzlement accusations. Karim Beylouni and Julien Vernet are noted.

Practice head(s):

Karim Beylouni; Julien Vernet

Testimonials

‘Good listening skills, pragmatism and adapted solutions.’

‘Karim Beylouni is a pragmatic lawyer who is business-oriented.’

‘A very competent team, very available. The firm is an ideal partner for cross-border work, for private individuals and leading institutions.’

‘Karim Beylouni is a talented lawyer perfectly suited for complex disputes, including those where the media component is important.’

‘Real responsiveness and innovative proposals.’

‘Julien Vernet: personalised advice, proactivity, reactivity’.

‘Very efficient, solid and agile.’

Key clients

Mukhtar Ablyazov

Twitter

Herta

France > Private equity: venture/growth capital Tier 3

Practice head(s):

Jérôme Albertin; Roland Gueny; Hervé de Kervasdoue; Stanislas Richoillez; Camille de Verdelhan

Key clients

Fineta

Limflow

Rgreen

Karot Capital

Kharis Capital

M6

Kintaro Group

C-Risk

Nathalie Ternisien (Manager)

Medesis Pharma

Ivc Evidensia France

Innovafonds

Newfund

France > Real estate Tier 3

The ‘united, responsive and efficient’ team at BG2V is well-placed to handle the sale and purchase of real estate portfolios, as well as leases, financing and development. Praised by one client for his ‘great knowledge of the market’, Quentin Leroux steers the ‘multidisciplinary’ practice and majors on asset management, in addition to development and finance transactions, ordinarily acting on the borrower’s side. The ‘competent, attentive and pleasant’ Woody Guirand is an additional key department figure.

Practice head(s):

Quentin Leroux

Other key lawyers:

Testimonials

‘Quentin Leroux is a real dealmaker as well as an excellent legal adviser. He is pragmatic and understands immediately the client’s needs.’

‘A human-sized, multidisciplinary and competent firm.’

‘Quentin Leroux is an excellent real estate lawyer. He is a good negotiator and seeks the best arrangements for his clients.’

‘The team is united, responsive and very efficient – it is pragmatic and looks for solutions.’

‘Quentin Leroux stands out. His calm, his great knowledge of the market, his capacity for work and analysis make him a very precise and valuable ally for all major real estate projects. ’

‘Woody Guirand is competent, attentive and pleasant.’

Key clients

AEW

Alios

Allianz Immovalor

Altarea

Aviva Investors

Axtom Groupe

Ba&sh

Bouygues Immobilier

Bowery Europe

Bleu Mercure

BPIFRANCE

Caryatid

CAVP (Caisse d’Assurance Vieillesse des Pharmaciens)

CBRE Investment Management

CDC (Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations)

Colas

Colliers

Constructa

DWS

DTZ Investors

Epopée Gestion

Etam

Exane

Gecina

GDG Investissements

Google

Groupe Duval

HEC Business School

Herno

ICAM School

Impala

JLL (Jones Lang Lasalle)

Kareg

Klépierre

Liberty Real Estate

Linkcity

Logicor (Blackstone / CIC)

Logistics Capital Partners

Montea

Mountpark Properties

Nephos Property Management

Novaxia

Nuveen

Perial

Pepsico

Predica

Scaprim

Schroders

Science Po

Sofidy

Sogecap

Soremi

Spirit

Vailog

Virtuo Industrial Property

Work highlights

  • Advised Allianz Immovalor on the acquisition of the Kappa office building, Docks de Saint-Ouen district, from La Française Real Estate Managers.
  • Advised Logicor on the conclusion of commercial lease with a leading European provider of toys and children’s entertainment relating to a warehouse in Houplines.
  • Advised Liberty Management on the acquisition of the Mazagran building in Paris.

France > Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation Tier 4

Practice head(s):

Xavier Carbasse; Roland Gueny; Julien Vernet; Camille de Verdelhan

Testimonials

‘Rigor of analyses, proactive on defense strategies, reactive and available.’

France > Employment Tier 4

Practice head(s):

Marie Content; Guillaume de Saint Sernin

Testimonials

‘This is one of the rising teams in social law in Paris.’

‘Lawyers with great technical expertise and an excellent understanding of business issues, which can be explained in particular by the multidisciplinary nature of the firm.’

‘The team is modern, dynamic and has great proximity to its customers.’

‘Guillaume de Saint Sernin is undoubtedly the leader in social practice. It stands out for its great technical expertise in the service of pragmatic and operational solutions.’

‘Marie Content: expertise in labor law with a pragmatic approach adapted to the business world. She is not content to formulate answers based only on the texts but on a global evaluation, her availability, her human qualities’

‘We have worked with this team for years. Listening, advice, availability, quality of service, follow-up of files are their best assets.’

‘Stable team, with excellent internal communication. Great responsiveness. Proposals for solutions that are always pragmatic, innovative and adapted to demands and risks.’

‘I really appreciated the expertise of Guillaume de Saint-Sernin and his team, who always know how to be available and precise in his answers. His approach is pragmatic and therefore valuable in the success of M&A negotiations. Guillaume leads a very competent team with very pleasant contact.’

Key clients

Accor

Aesio Santé Méditerranée

Areas

Arte

Auchan

Atos

Axereal

Avnet Emg France

Caisse des dépôts et des consignations

Crit

DRT

Editions Nuit & Jour

Fabernovel

France Télévisions

Freudenberg Filtration Technologies

Générale du Solaire

GoStudent

In’li

IVC Evidensia

Jobteaser

Kaufman & Broad

Kompass

Ladurée

Les Glénans

Nomotech

Novadiscovery

Orphéopolis

O’Tacos

Potloc

Red Bee Media France|(Groupe ERICSSON)

Scania

Sogetrel

Syndicat des Médias de Service Public (SMSP)

Teads

The Fork

Wivetix Services

Yves Rocher

Sotheby’s

Work highlights

  • Advised a French group of companies specialised in telecoms for employment-related issues with respect to acquisition of competitors.
  • Advised a French group of companies specialised in temporary workers on various legal actions initiated against former employees for unfair competition.
  • Assisting a group of almost 12,000 employees, which has been split into two entities, to define the fate of their collective standards.

The firm: BG2V (Beylouni Carbasse Guény Valot Vernet) is an independent French law firm founded in 2010.

With nearly 60 lawyers, including 16 partners, BG2V is a first-choice alternative to major business law firms which all the partners come from. They share common values based on professionalism, trust, commitment and flexibility.

BG2V offers its clients – SMEs, ETI, French and international groups – a global offer in business law (advice and litigation), with high-quality, tailored and cost-effective services in all the main business law areas: corporate/mergers and acquisitions, private equity, litigation, real estate, criminal law, tax law, employment law, intellectual property/new technologies, restructuring, insolvency, press law and public law.

BG2V’s lawyers work both in French and English, and are admitted to practice in France and, for some of them, can also practise in the US (New York Bar). For its cross-border issues (particularly in continental Europe, Anglo-Saxon countries and the Middle East), the firm has also established privileged relationships with foreign firms which share the same standard of technical skills.

The firm’s lawyers are members of international lawyers’ networks such as the American Bar Association (ABA) or the AIJA (International Association of Young Lawyers).

Areas of practice: Combining an advisory and litigation practice gives BG2V’s lawyers a multi-disciplinary perspective and allows them to offer a full-service offering in the following areas:

Corporate/M&A: BG2V advises clients on corporate financial transactions: M&A, private equity, venture capital, capital investment, governance and funding. The firm has developed an expertise in the agribusiness and in advising medium-size companies and investment funds for mid-cap operations.

Litigation: BG2V assists French and international companies and their top executives in all fields of business litigation. Camille de Verdelhan’s former professional experience provides her with very good knowledge of financial and corporate governance issues in public and private companies.

Real estate: BG2V assists clients in carrying out complex real estate deals: purchases and disposals of assets, project development, property management, commercial leases, real estate financings/refinancings and real estate taxation. Quentin Leroux, Jean-Marc Valot, Jean-Sebastien Dumont and Stanislas Richoillez deliver a full-service offer in real estate investment and taxation.

Criminal law: BG2V assists and represents clients in the fields of criminal liability of companies and their managers, internet actors (unlawful content, law enforcement, privacy, data protection), financial and stock market ligation, and press law issues.

Tax law: BG2V assists clients with their corporate tax issues: acquisition audit, tax structuring, M&A, corporate group restructuring, real estate and managers’ taxation and provides solutions related to national and international tax issues and assistance in the relationships with tax authorities.

Labour law: BG2V provides advisory and dispute resolution litigation on employment and social security law issues. It assists clients regarding both their individual and collective work relationships.

IP/IT: BG2V assists its clients in protecting and defending their copyrights and industrial property rights and represents them in infringement and unfair competition claims. It also provides advisory services in the IT and e-commerce fields. BG2V is the French local adviser of main internet key players of the Silicon Valley.

Restructuring and insolvency: BG2V assists its clients in acquiring companies facing financial difficulties either preventively or before the court.

Public law and environment : BG2V’s public law practice is divided between advisory and litigation work, enabling us to provide ongoing, comprehensive coverage of the legal issues facing our clients.

Department Name Email Telephone
Corporate/mergers and acquisitions Roland Gueny gueny@bg2v.com +33 1 48 88 60 60
Corporate/mergers and acquisitions Stanislas Richoillez richoillez@bg2v.com +33 1 48 88 60 60
Corporate/mergers and acquisitions Hervé de Kervasdoué kervasdoue@bg2v.com +33 1 48 88 60 60
Litigation Julien Vernet vernet@bg2v.com +33 1 48 88 60 60
Litigation Camille de Verdelhan verdelhan@bg2v.com +33 1 48 88 60 60
Real estate Quentin Leroux leroux@bg2v.com +33 1 48 88 60 60
Criminal Karim Beylouni beylouni@bg2v.com +33 1 48 88 60 60
Tax Jean-Marc Valot valot@bg2v.com +33 1 48 88 60 60
Tax Jean-Sébastien Dumont dumont@bg2v.com +33 1 48 88 60 60
Employment Guillaume de Saint Sernin saintsernin@bg2v.com +33 1 48 88 60 60
Intellectual property/new technologies Xavier Carbasse x.carbasse@bg2v.com 1+33 1 48 88 60 60
Intellectual property/new technologies Karim Beylouni beylouni@bg2v.com +33 1 48 88 60 60
Restructuring and insolvency Roland Gueny gueny@bg2v.com +33 1 48 88 60 60
Press Karim Beylouni beylouni@bg2v.com +33 1 48 88 60 60
Public law /Environmental law Nicolas Autet autet@bg2v.com +33 1 48 88 60 60
Intellectual property/new technologies Marie Georges-Picot georgespicot@bg2v.com +33 1 48 88 60 60
Corporate/mergers and acquisitions Jérôme Albertin albertin@bg2v.com +33 1 48 88 60 60
Tax Rémi Dias rdias@bg2v.com +33 1 48 88 60 60
Partners : 16
Associate : 43
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