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The firm: Founded in 1943 by Henry Foley and Garrett Hoag in Boston, Foley Hoag has since opened offices in New York, Paris and Washington, DC. The firm is characterised by a culture of excellence, and represents public and private clients in a wide range of disputes and transactions around the world. Foley Hoag brings together a team of lawyers practising in the principal spheres of business law and benefiting from a reputation for excellence in the fields of international arbitration, administrative law, environmental law, energy law and intellectual property. The firm has established a lengthy record of success in industries such as life sciences, healthcare, technology, energy/renewables, investment management and professional services. Foley Hoag has chosen a particularly integrated approach: lawyers in the US and France often work together in teams, bringing together members of various practice areas, particularly on international litigation and arbitration cases, where the firm enjoys a prominent position internationally.

Areas of practice: International litigation and arbitration is a sector in which Foley Hoag is positioned among the most reputed firms in the world. The Paris office lawyers are highly active in the fields of international commercial arbitration, including construction arbitration, investor-state arbitration and public international law, frequently acting in concert with colleagues from the firm’s other offices. They also regularly advise clients on the recognition and enforcement of arbitral awards and foreign judgments. The department’s lawyers have a substantial body of experience advising large public and private sector actors in disputes arising on infrastructure projects, under both civil law and common law.

The environmental law/public law group provides innovative and high-value-added advice on matters of environmental law and public law to certain public entities and to companies operating in different sectors including chemicals, agribusiness, mining, metallurgy, energy and waste management. The group’s attorneys have years of experience in litigation, including before civil, administrative, criminal and constitutional courts. Regarding environmental practice, the Paris department’s work is focused on the following axes: supporting industrial and mining projects, defining strategies for converting industrial sites, securing and optimising the resources and wastes development, managing hazardous materials. The environmental law group’s attorneys have extensive experience and a strong track record with respect to high-value complex cases, including on matters of compliance, set up or redevelopment of industrial sites or landfills, the construction of electrical facilities and high-voltage power lines.

Foley Hoag can also boast a top-tier intellectual property practice that advises leading clients, such as the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The Paris team represents a body of clients consisting principally of US companies and their French subsidiaries in intellectual property matters and, more broadly, IP/IT matters involving technology law, data protection, telecoms and the internet.

Lastly, a team specialised in corporate/M&A recently joined the firm to add to the wide range of services provided to the clients globally. The team assists French and international clients for all type of corporate transactions, in a variety of sectors, including high-tech, biotech and industry and works closely with the firm’s other offices to help grow in France an area which represents a significant part of the firm’s overall activity.

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	Mme Carine  Le Roy-Gleizes	Head of Foley Hoag Paris’ environmental law practice, Carine Le Roy-Gleizes has…	View Profile

Comparative Guides

• France: Environment

  Published: January 2021

  Authors: Carine Le Roy-Gleizes Corentin Chevallier Frédéric Scanvic Pauline Leddet-Troadec

  This country-specific Q&A provides an overview to Environment laws and regulations that may occur in France.