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Laurie Achtouk-Spivak

Laurie Achtouk-Spivak’s practice focuses on international arbitration and litigation, as well as public international law. Laurie represents clients in commercial arbitrations as well as investors and sovereigns in investment treaty arbitrations under various arbitral rules. Throughout her career, Laurie has been involved in over 50 arbitrations and has managed high-stake disputes in various sectors including energy and natural resources, infrastructure projects, defence, financial services, and life sciences. She often provides companies with investment structuring advice, and she advises and lectures on international dispute settlement, including in relation to sustainability matters. Laurie acts as an arbitrator and is a CEDR-accredited mediator. She has recently been designated by France on the ICSID list of Arbitrators and Conciliators.

Andrew Bernstein

Andrew A. Bernstein’s practice focuses on capital markets and transactions for sovereigns. Andrew’s practice has a dual focus. A significant part of his practice involves international securities offerings by French companies, including initial public offerings, other equity offerings, bank regulatory capital securities, high-yield bonds and investment-grade debt sold in the U.S. market. He also regularly represents sovereigns and state-owned companies in international transactions, particularly oil and gas projects and financings, as well as disputes.

Laura Birene

Laura Birene’s practice focuses on corporate and financial matters, including financing and capital market transactions.

John Brinitzer

John Brinitzer’s practice focuses on international capital markets transactions, as well as mergers and acquisitions.

Pierre-Yves Chabert

Pierre-Yves Chabert’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and securities regulation.

Amélie Champsaur

Amélie Champsaur’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and investigations, particularly in the financial sector. Amélie leads the firm’s EU financial regulatory practice and is active in the fast developing area of EU-level financial regulation, advising EU and non-EU banks, infrastructures, sovereigns, investment funds, and other market participants on a broad range of matters, including prudential regulation, governance and compliance (including cyber-security), bank resolution, state aid in the financial sector, and derivatives regulation, in the context of M&A, capital markets transactions, emerging risks, ESG, as well as enforcement and litigation. She has also advised clients on the cross-border aspects of U.S. regulatory reforms, enforcement, and litigation matters, including on privacy matters.

Anne-Sophie Coustel

Anne-Sophie Coustel’s practice focuses on French and international tax law as well as complex reorganizations and M&A transactions. She also has extensive experience with employee stock offerings, employee benefit plans and management incentive packages.

Sophie de Beer

Sophie de Beer’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions as well as on general corporate, financial, and banking regulatory matters. Her experience includes private and public cross-border merger and acquisitions, partnerships, and transactions involving financial institutions such as banks, asset managers, and insurance companies. She is advising clients on corporate and regulatory aspects of their transactions.

Frédéric de Bure

Frédéric de Bure’s practice focuses on EU and French competition law, including merger control, cartel investigations, market dominance cases and related litigation matters.

Aurèle Delors

Aurèle Delors’ practice focuses on French and EU public law including public contracts and environmental law, foreign investment control regulation and various regulation issues, as well as litigation before the French and EU courts. She also has a significant experience in EU and French banking and financial regulation, in particular in the context of litigation before the EU courts/supervisory authorities.

Aude Dupuis

Aude Dupuis’ practice focuses on domestic and cross-border litigation and dispute resolution, including general commercial matters, bankruptcy law, cartel follow-on damages actions, and M&A transactions.

Rodolphe Elineau

Rodolphe Elineau’s practice focuses on corporate and financial matters, including M&A and corporate governance. Rodolphe advises both French and foreign companies on strategic and complex transactions. He also frequently advises listed companies on corporate governance matters and in connection with their general shareholders’ meetings, as well as on shareholder activism matters.

Barthélemy Faye

Barthélemy Faye’s practice focuses on corporate and financial matters and Africa-related transactions, including energy and natural resources projects, financings, acquisitions and JVs, private equity, and sovereign debt.

Jean-Yves Garaud

Jean-Yves Garaud’s practice focuses on international arbitration and white-collar criminal matters.

Elise Goebel

Elise Goebel’s practice focuses on domestic and international litigation and arbitration, as well as white-collar defense and investigations.

Valérie Lemaitre

Valérie Lemaitre’s practice focuses on corporate and financial matters, including acquisition transactions involving public companies, structured financings, leveraged transactions and securities offerings.

Frédéric G. Martin

Frederic G. Martin’s practice focuses on international capital markets and cross-border merger and acquisition transactions. Frederic’s practice involves initial public offerings and other equity offerings, de-SPAC transactions, investment-grade and high-yield debt offerings, bank regulatory capital securities offerings, and liability management transactions. He also regularly advises on disclosure and corporate governance matters.

Delphine Michot

Delphine Michot’s practice focuses on domestic and cross-border litigation and dispute resolution as well as white-collar criminal matters.

Anton Nothias

Anton Nothias’ practice focuses on corporate and financial matters, including financing, capital markets, and mergers and acquisitions.

Stéphanie Patureau

Stéphanie Patureau’s practice focuses on EU and French competition law. Stéphanie has extensive experience advising clients on merger control regulations including complex, multijurisdictional transactions, as well as in international cartels and anticompetitive agreements, abuse of dominance, and regulated sectors. Her wide-ranging practice also includes work on foreign investment control issues.

Séverine Schrameck

Séverine Schrameck’s practice focuses on EU and French competition law, including merger control, cartel investigations, market dominance cases, and State aid. She has extensive experience in assisting clients on merger control regulations, notably on numerous multijurisdictional transactions. She has handled complex merger control cases before both the European Commission and the French Competition Authority. Séverine also has experience advising clients in antitrust and other government investigations, with notable representations that include a major automotive parts supplier in worldwide cartel investigations by the U.S. Department of Justice, the European Commission, and other antitrust authorities, and follow-on damages claims. Her wide-ranging practice includes work on foreign investment control issues and in French public law.

Sarah Schröder

Sarah Schröder’s practice focuses on international arbitration, litigation, and public international law. Sarah represents clients in commercial arbitrations, as well as investors and sovereigns in investment arbitrations, before various arbitration institutions and under various arbitration rules, including the ICC and ICSID. She also represents clients in proceedings before French courts relating to arbitration. Sarah has been involved in many arbitrations and high-stake disputes in various sectors, including energy and natural resources, infrastructure projects, financial services and post-M&A. She is a regular speaker and lecturer on international arbitration matters.

Marie-Laurence Tibi

Marie-Laurence Tibi’s practice focuses on equity capital markets and public M&A transactions, as well as corporate governance for listed companies. She also advises clients on securities laws, corporate matters, and mergers and acquisitions.

Antoine Winckler

Antoine Winckler’s practice focuses on European and French competition law, including cartel investigations, merger control, and market dominance. He has advised clients in numerous cartel cases, including those relating to cement, copper tubes, seamless steel tubes, paper, elevators, cables and freight forwarding. Antoine has extensive experience representing corporate clients and financial institutions, as well as governments and public entities, regarding EU state aid rules; and he has represented clients in disputes before the European Commission, the European Courts in Luxembourg, the French Competition Authority and the Court of Appeals in Paris.