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International Capabilities

Clients: 

SEATTLE AVOCATS has a strong international presence through its clients and cases, and in particular:  

• Has been collaborating for four years with an American NGO (MIGHTY EARTH) also present in 4 European states (France, UK, Germany and the Netherlands) on issues of deforestation, agriculture and environmental and climate protection. Within the framework of this collaboration, we assist and represent a group of organizations representing the indigenous peoples of the Brazilian and Colombian Amazon and French and American NGOs in order to impose on the CASINO Group measures to stop the deforestation resulting from its activities in Brazil and Colombia; 

• Advises a large American foundation, created at the initiative of the singer STING, in order to reinforce the representation of the Amerindian populations of French Guyana;  

• Advises the International Transport Workers’ Federation (ITF), based in Montreal and London, in the defense of its interests in France and beyond (United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, Italy and United States); 

• Assists and advises a major Belgian pharmaceutical company (UCB Pharma) and a Swiss environmental company (Norco) on their activities in France; 

• advises one of the largest groups in luxury distribution (BLUEBELL) on all Asian territory;  

• Assists and advises an English car company (Lotus cars) and an English distribution company (Oxygen) in various commercial disputes;

• Assists a large French company specialized in environmental services in the context of corruption proceedings for acts committed in the Caucasus region;  

• Assists and advises journalists who are members of the European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) network; 

• Also assists a large number of individual clients throughout Europe and the world (Belgium, Switzerland, Hong Kong, United States…). 

Our team and networks: 

Our team is composed of 14 lawyers, most of whom have studied abroad (Qatar, Togo, Egypt, Spain, England, Scotland, United States…), mostly fluent in English and Spanish, and we regularly welcome foreign trainees (currently a Brazilian trainee). 

• Sébastien MABILE is a lecturer in international environmental law for many foreign students of the Paris School of International Affairs (PSIA) of Sciences Po in Paris, and of the Master 2 of International and European Environmental Law of the University of Aix-Marseille.  
• François de CAMBIAIRE is a lecturer at ESSEC business school, ranked 3rd in the Financial Times 2020 Masters in Management ranking. 

We regularly collaborate with organizations established abroad:  

• Me François de CAMBIAIRE with the International Human Rights Committee of the American Bar Association (webinars and book project to be published in 2021 on duty of diligence and corporate accountability) ; he is also member of the European Center of Economic Law of ESSEC, 
• Me Sébastien MABILE with the IUCN World Commission on Environmental Law.