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Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
21, boulevard Malesherbes
75008 PARIS
France

Work Department

Litigation

Position

Grégoire Bertrou is a partner in Willkie’s Litigation Department in Paris and the Co-Chair of the Firm Arbitration Practice Group.

Grégoire has more than 20 years of experience as a trial lawyer representing clients before French courts and arbitration tribunals. He has acted in more than 50 international arbitration proceedings, both as counsel and arbitrator. His practice focuses on domestic and cross-border litigation and dispute resolution, particularly with regard to M&A transactions, corporate law and general commercial matters.

Grégoire also regularly represents clients in complex compliance and enforcement matters, including internal investigations and the resolution of administrative and enforcement proceedings involving either French authorities (Public Prosecutor, AMF, CNIL, DGCCRF, etc.) or foreign authorities (DOJ, OFAC, etc.). Grégoire co-authored Chapter 14, ‘France’s Anticorruption Legal Framework’ in Martin Weinstein, Robert Meyer and Jeffrey Clark (eds.), ‘The Foreign Corrupt Practices Act: Compliance, Investigations and Enforcement’.

Lawyer Rankings

France > Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation

Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP  is entrusted by leading companies and investment funds to handle their most sensitive matters in France and occasionally overseas.  The team has a strong corporate and shareholders’ conflicts knowhow while its expertise is also strong in the commercial field. It also has experience defending companies facing mass civil liability claims, notably brought by former employees. Recently, the practice has been particularly active in the healthcare sector and is also retained by investment funds involved in cases as third-party case funders. The team is co-headed by Dominique Mondoloni and Grégoire Bertrou , and also includes special European counsels Sophie-Jeanne Laroche  and Hugo Piguet .