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25 RUE DE MARIGNAN
75008 PARIS
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Jean-Charles Jaïs
Work Department
Litigation, Arbitration & Investigations
Position
Jean-Charles specialises in pre-contentious and litigation matters ranging from financial and banking disputes, financial regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings (in particular in relation to market abuse offence), contentious competition, white collar crime, post-completion disputes, and private international law to general commercial law disputes (such as abusive termination of commercial relations and unfair competition). In this respect, he regularly appears before Civil and Commercial Courts as well as the French Financial Markets Authority (“AMF”).
Jean-Charles often works in close collaboration with lawyers from the firm’s other market-leading practice areas, including Corporate, Competition, Financial Regulation, in cross-office, multidisciplinary teams.
As well as France-based clients, Jean-Charles represents corporates and financial institutions in the firm’s Brussels and London offices. He spent four months on secondment to the firm’s Madrid office in 2010.
Career
2005 to date: Dispute Resolution department, Linklaters LLP Paris
Languages
French, English, Spanish
Memberships
Jean-Charles is a member of the research committee of the HEC Business School Foundation.
Education
Jean-Charles studied law at University of Paris XII – Paris-Sud and holds a post-graduation degree in tax and business law from University of Paris I – Pantheon-Sorbonne and an MBA from HEC (Haute Etudes Commerciales) Paris.
Lawyer Rankings
France > Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
Linklaters‘ litigation team is entrusted with the management of a range of cases, spanning commercial, financial, corporate, civil and criminal liability litigation in France, in addition to handling high-stakes cases in Africa. The practice represents a prominent client base of French and international companies and investment funds, across various industry sectors in major commercial disputes, including top antitrust follow-on cases and commercial relationship disputes linked to inflation. The team’s involvement also extends to regulatory disputes, notably in the stock-market area. Practice head Arnaud de La Cotardière
and Jean-Charles Jaïs are strong names, while counsel Eleonore Hannezo provides additional support.
France > Dispute resolution: Stock market litigation
Linklaters has extensive experience advising companies, investment funds and financial newspapers in dealing with stock-market breach investigations led by the AMF. In addition, the firm is also regularly retained to act in stock-market battles pertaining to major M&A and squeeze out transactions. Arnaud de La Cotardière and Jean-Charles Jaïs are the key names.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: transactional work
- Capital markets: debt capital markets
- EU, competition and distribution
- Industry focus: Energy
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Project finance
Firm Rankings
- Derivatives and structured finance
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: Stock market litigation
- Insolvency
- Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity: LBO
- Real estate
- Tax
- Administrative and public law
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Capital markets: equity capital markets
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Employment
- Private equity: Fund formation