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Armelle Abadie
Armelle Abadie
Armelle Abadie joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2006 and became a partner in 2022. She practices in indirect taxation, VAT, payroll tax, C3S (the French corporate social solidarity contribution), and invoicing tax rules (reliable audit trail (PAF) documentation). Armelle Abadie advises companies across all sectors of the economy on routine matters, monitoring and managing of tax audits and litigation, as well as undertaking specific assignments. She has acquired particular experience in the VAT rules applicable to property, insurance and banking, and advises foreign companies and French subsidiaries of multinationals on international VAT flows.
Christophe Aldebert
Christophe Aldebert
Christophe Aldebert joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1989 and became a partner in 2000. He practices in tax law with a particular focus on VAT and payroll taxes. He advises financial institutions, insurance companies, property groups, industrial and service companies on the VAT regime, indirect taxes on transactions, forming resource-pooling groups, VAT groups, and optimising restructuring operations (mergers and acquisitions, outsourcing). He assists clients in monitoring and management of tax audits and tax adjustments, and acts for them in tax litigation before the French and European courts (CJEU). Christophe Aldebert has also developed extensive experience litigating criminal tax law cases.
Jorge Allende
Jorge Allende
Jorge is a senior partner and head of the Mining and Energy & Climate Change teams and co-head of Infrastructure & Projects team for CMS Carey & Allende. He also is very active within the Corporate/M&A practice group. He advises several national and multinational companies in the mining, engineering and construction, energy and natural resources industries. He also has extensive experience in project finance and M&A transactions, particularly in the areas mentioned. Previously, as member of the board  of large companies and knowing the private-sector needs from the inside, he has advised clients in connection with numerous large-scale mining projects in Chile since 1990, including the negotiation of multimillion-dollar EPC and EPCM contracts, acquisition of large mining concessions, foreign investment contracts and project finance deals. Key clients:  Inversiones Alxar (Empresas Copec’s mining assets company), Worley Chile S.A. (former Jacobs Chile), Elecnor (Spain), Nol-Tec Chile, Enagás (Spain), AECOM.
Jorge Allende Destuet
Jorge Allende Destuet
Jorge is partner and the co-head of the Corporate/M&A team. His practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital market operations, startups, and private equity. He counsels international clients on matters of finance, hospitality, and natural resources. He is also well recognized for his active practice in the capital markets arena and he has regularly participated in cross-border business combination operations, advising both local clients in their expansion endeavours in Latin America, as well as for foreign clients in their businesses in Chile, and in other regions of Latin America. Key clients: Sun Dreams S.A., The Blackstone Group L.P., Enagás S.A., Centerbridge Partners, AquaChile S.A, KKR.
Elisabeth Ashworth
Elisabeth Ashworth
Elisabeth Ashworth joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2008 and became a partner in 2011. She practices in tax law and manages VAT, payroll taxes, and corporation tax for the firm's Tax Intelligence team, working closely with VAT teams across the firm. She has also developed extensive experience with tax audits. Through ongoing dialogue with the tax authorities, she plays an active role in developing new standards to transpose European Union law or to implement major national reforms of VAT, property VAT, income tax, corporation tax, taxes on goods and services, and electronic invoicing. Before joining CMS, Elisabeth Ashworth had a 20-year career with the tax authorities. She first headed up the team in charge of VAT deduction rules in the French Tax Policy Directorate (1997-2003) before leading the team of technical experts in charge of corporate and local authority tax affairs in the Tax Audit division (2003-2007).
Eva Aubry
Eva Aubry
Eva Aubry joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2008 and became a partner in 2025. She practices in tax law. She advises French and international groups on a range of matters, including tax management (tax consolidation, intra-group relations, compliance, etc.), restructuring, tax audits, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts (LBOs), negotiation of authorisations and approvals, and advance tax rulings. She assists clients during tax audits and any resulting litigation. Eva Aubry also advises on tax law as applied to non-profits organisations and provides advice to executives on personal and asset planning tax.
Stéphane Austry
Stéphane Austry
Stéphane Austry joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2007 as a partner. He leads the firm’s tax litigation and controversy practice. He is a highly experienced litigator in tax cases. He mainly represents large companies in proceedings in domestic jurisdictions (before the Conseil d’Etat and the Constitutional Council), and before the international courts (the Court of Justice of the European Union and the European Court of Human Rights). Stéphane Austry also advises clients on international tax issues and on the interpretation and application of tax treaties.
Benoit Bailly
Benoit Bailly
Benoît Bailly joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2007 and became a partner in 2019. He practices in tax law and advises executives, entrepreneurs, and high-net-worth families on the tax aspects of managing their business and personal assets. For businesses, he handles disposals, contributions, and transfers, including under the “Pacte Dutreil”, a favourable tax regime for transferring family businesses. For individuals, he advises on matters including gifts, exit tax and property. He’s clients include private banks, trusts, and French and international family offices. Benoît Bailly also works with investment funds on portfolio structuring, financing and refinancing, and on compensation packages for fund managers. He advises corporate groups and companies on international investments, particularly in the luxury hotel sector. In addition, he supports clients in their dealings with the tax authorities, including audits, litigation, and compliance.
Jean-René Benichou
Jean-René Benichou
Jean-René Bénichou joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1987 and became a partner in 2001. He practices in tax law and advises French and international groups on tax management (tax consolidation, intra-group relations, etc.), restructuring (mergers, spin-offs, demergers, etc.), tax audits, acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, arranging and structuring financing, and negotiating tax authorisations in domestic or international set-ups. Jean-René Bénichou also assists clients during tax audits and any resulting litigation. He's practice also includes environmental tax and taxation of non-profits organisations.
Jean-Charles Benois Benois
Jean-Charles Benois Benois
Jean-Charles Benois joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2012 and became a partner in 2019. He practices in tax law with a particular focus on direct company taxation. He advises clients on all aspects of taxation of French and international companies. He has developed extensive experience in restructuring, tax consolidation, structuring intra-group relations and advance tax rulings. He also advises on transaction taxation and private equity (mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts (LBOs), negotiating financing and refinancing agreements, etc.). He assists individuals, shareholders and senior executives on their personal, professional (employee shareholding schemes and/or profit-sharing plans), and asset planning tax. Jean-Charles Benois advises and represents clients in pre-litigation and litigation procedures.
Benjamin Bill
Benjamin Bill
Benjamin Bill joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2018 as a partner. He practices in real estate law and advises on setting up complex property projects, particularly those entailing the acquisition and disposal of property assets or companies – projects that involve French and European property portfolios spanning all kinds of managed commercial and residential assets. He works with clients on project structuring and the formation of partnerships and joint ventures. He also advises on commercial lease agreements. His clients include French and international institutions. Benjamin Bill is also qualified as a Rechtsanwalt (lawyer) in Germany.
Alexandre Bordenave
Alexandre Bordenave
Alexandre Bordenave joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2009 and became a partner in 2021. He practices in banking and finance law. He advises banks and their customers on structuring and negotiating assignment of receivables (including securitisation of commercial receivables and the disposal of non-performing loan portfolios, etc.) and structured finance transactions (distressed/new money, and debt forbearance). He has acquired in-depth experience in finance, with a focus on trusts, securities, and management across all asset types (securitisation, cash, property, etc.). Alexandre Bordenave is also an experienced litigator in technical financial cases.
Raphaël Bordier
Raphaël Bordier
Raphaël Bordier joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1996 and became a partner in 2009. He practices in employment, labour and pensions law. He advises French and international corporates and represents them in litigation. His practice covers all aspects of individual and collective employment relations and management of employment litigation. Raphaël Bordier is highly experienced in managing collective employment relations, collective bargaining, restructuring, and business transfers.
Jean-Fabrice Brun
Jean-Fabrice Brun
Jean-Fabrice Brun joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2004 and became a partner in 2016. He is joint manager of the firm's Dispute Resolution department. He advises a broad range of corporate, individual, government, and public clients. He is an experienced litigator and represents clients in high-stakes litigation proceedings before the national civil, commercial, financial, and criminal courts. Jean-Fabrice Brun is highly skilled in international arbitration. He has represented several international groups in strategic litigation proceedings in the agri-foods, banking, insurance, and aviation sectors.
Nicolas Callies
Nicolas Callies
Nicolas Callies joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1990 and became a partner in 2001. He practices in employment, labour and pensions law and advises on collective bargaining, relationships with employee representatives, reorganisation and restructuring, collective disputes, terminating employment contracts, discrimination and harassment cases, individual disputes, social security administration (URSSAF) inspections and litigation, the status of senior executives, compensation packages, and employee saving plans. Nicolas Callies assists companies of all sizes, as well as employers’ federations in negotiations.
Hannah Cane
Hannah Cane
Hannah has over 20 years’ experience in the professional indemnity market. She specialises in construction professional indemnity defence and coverage, acting for insurers and their insureds including main contractors, specialist sub-contractors, engineers, architects, surveyors, planners, designers and other construction/property professionals. Hannah prides herself on developing close relationships with clients who trust her to represent their interests. She is renowned for her responsiveness and her measured, thorough and strategic approach. Hannah is passionate about CSR and throughout her career has spearheaded a number of CSR projects including a close affiliation with Greenwich University’s Legal Advice Centre. Hannah gives regular external training to clients and the wider market providing seminars and workshops on a range of defence and coverage issues. She is also a regular contributor to the legal press.
Laurent Chatel
Laurent Chatel
Laurent Chatel joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1990 and became a partner in 2003. His practice centres on local taxation, with a focus on the CET (local economic contribution comprising the business property tax (CFE) and the tax on business added value (CVAE)); IFER (a local tax paid by energy, rail and telecommunications companies in France); land tax on built properties and on undeveloped land; waste collection tax (TEOM); tax on the sale of land that has become suitable for building; tax on commercial brownfield sites; tax on offices, commercial premises, warehouses and parking spaces (in the Ile-de-France and Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur regions); residence tax payable by companies and individuals; tax on vacant housing units; local tax on outdoor signage (TLPE); visitors’ tax; and the tax on commercial spaces payable by retailers (TASCOM). Laurent Chatel advises clients including professional organisations and was an expert contributor to the national taxation conference on tax reform. He also gives seminars on how the government’s annual budget affects local taxes and leads training programmes on complex issues related to the CET, land tax, TLPE, TASCOM and other local taxes.
Marcell Clark
Marcell Clark
Marcell Clark is a Partner at CMS Vienna and attorney-at-law for Banking & Finance. He has over 25 years’ experience in cross-border financing and real estate transactions and has represented clients on their most important transactions in the CEE and SEE regions and around the globe. In addition to senior secured and unsecured transactions, he has extensive experience advising on construction and subordinated debt matters as well as real estate investment, agricultural and timber funds in their acquisitions and dispositions.
Ludovique Clavreul
Ludovique Clavreul
Ludovique Clavreul joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2006 and became a partner in 2024. She practices in employment law, with a particular focus on collective bargaining negotiations, personnel representation, organisation of working time, pay, gender equality, corporate restructuring, litigation, and senior management status. Ludovique Clavreul also works in compliance and internal investigations. Ludovique Clavreul advises large French and international groups in both the public and private sectors.
Michel Collet
Michel Collet
Michel Collet joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1994 and became a partner in 2002. He practices in tax law and advises clients on: – mergers & acquisitions and private equity; – financial and property investments; – international financing and complex tax restructuring. He's clients include French and international investment funds, banks, and listed and private companies. He also advises local authorities and French states and territories, including Saint-Barthélemy and Guadeloupe, primarily on tax policy. Michel Collet works with private clients – families, business leaders, artists and sports professionals – on structuring their private, property and professional assets, particularly in an international context. He represents clients in dealings with the tax authorities, in pre-litigation and litigation proceedings, including before the European Court of Human Rights.
Virginie Corbet-Picard
Virginie Corbet-Picard
Virginie Corbet-Picard joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2007 and became a partner in 2023. Her practice covers all aspects of corporate law for listed and private clients across a wide spectrum of industries. She handles all issues related to transactions involving business consolidation and restructuring (mergers, spin-offs, domestic and cross-border reorganisations), private equity and management packages. She also counsels companies and corporate groups on governance issues, including appointment of corporate officers, limits on the powers of directors, executive compensation, delegation of authority and succession planning. Virginie Corbet-Picard assists clients with their sustainability reporting obligations (CSRD) and with drafting corporate and legal documents.
Xavier Daluzeau
Xavier Daluzeau
Xavier Daluzeau joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1997 and became a partner in 2012. He practices in tax law with a focus on transfer pricing and cross-border restructuring and acquisitions. He advises on drafting transfer pricing documentation and policy, reorganisations, acquisitions, avoiding double-taxation, and preliminary agreements on transfer pricing. He works with companies across a range of sectors, including banking, asset management, consumer goods, media and communication, cosmetics, and pharmaceuticals. Xavier Daluzeau also supports clients during tax audits and litigation.
Sarah Dardour-Attali
Sarah Dardour-Attali
Sarah Dardour-Attali joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2015 and became a partner in 2023. She practices in tax law and supports clients in tax audits and litigation. Sarah Dardour-Attali handles applications for advance tax rulings and acts for clients in litigation involving interpretation of constitutional rights. Her practice includes recours pour excès de pouvoir (judicial review of administrative action), priority preliminary rulings on constitutionality (QPC), as well as interlocutory questions before the Court of Justice of the European Union. Sarah Dardour-Attali also has a solid track record in advising and assisting clients in general corporate and transaction tax matters.
Agnès de l\'Estoile Campi
Agnès de l\'Estoile Campi
Agnès de l'Estoile Campi joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1995 and became a partner in 2006. She practices in tax law, advising French multinationals on mergers and acquisitions, corporate reorganisation, transfer pricing, tax structuring of complex international contracts, tax strategy and tax optimisation, as well as the international mobility of senior executives. Having practised for four years in São Paulo, she has extensive experience in all aspects of French-Brazilian and Latin American taxation issues. Agnès de l'Estoile Campi also advises large French groups on expanding into international markets, particularly Latin America and emerging markets, including India and China.
Damien Decolasse
Damien Decolasse
Damien Decolasse joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2002 and became a partner in 2018. He practices in employment, labour and pensions law and has a particular focus on the organisation of working time, pay policy, relations with employee representatives and collective bargaining, employment protection plans, European harmonisation of HR policies, retirement and benefit plans and management of international mobility, national and international restructuring projects, setting up employee shareholding schemes, mergers & acquisitions, spin-offs, secondment and expatriation of employees, company audits, social security audits, hiring, and termination of individual employment contracts.
Pierre Dedieu
Pierre Dedieu
Pierre Dedieu joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1999 and became a partner in 2009. He practices French and international tax law with a focus on wealth and transaction tax. He also has extensive experience representing clients in tax litigation proceedings, including representing clients in dealings with the tax authorities during tax audits and tax raids, and before the civil and administrative courts. Pierre Dedieu supports family groups on the French and international aspects of structuring and transferring their assets. He advises entrepreneurs, senior executives of international groups and fund managers on creating asset-holding structures, compensation packages and international mobility. His practice also extends to advising non-residents on structuring their property investments in France.
Alexandre Delhaye
Alexandre Delhaye
Alexandre Delhaye joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2001 and became a partner in 2015. He practices in Corporate/M&A and assists French and international corporate groups, private equity funds, family groups and entrepreneurs with their transactions in France and abroad. His practice includes: national and international transactions (disposals, acquisitions, joint-ventures, venture capital, private equity, distressed assets, hotel management contracts, etc.); reorganisation and restructuring; executive policy (management packages); shareholder relations (shareholder agreements, governance, etc.) and disputes between shareholders or arising post-disposal (representations and warranties, sale price, etc.). Alexandre Delhaye works across a broad spectrum of sectors, including technology, media & communications, industry (construction and public works, defence, aerospace, chemicals, etc.), infrastructure, hotels & leisure, distribution and financial services.
Chloé Delion
Chloé Delion
Chloé Delion joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2012 and became a partner in 2025. She practices in tax law with a particular focus on company and group taxation, mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and restructuring. She also advises shareholders and senior executives on personal tax matters and on structuring compensation plans. She advises and represents clients during tax audits and litigation. Chloé Delion is highly experienced in property investment and international taxation. Her practice covers international restructuring, cross-border operations, and international mobility issues.
Arnaud Donguy
Arnaud Donguy
Arnaud Donguy joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1993 and became a partner in 2010. He practices in tax law and advises clients on corporation tax, tax consolidation, domestic and cross-border business restructuring (mergers, spin-offs, demergers), and complex overlapping tax and accounting problems of calculating taxable income. Arnaud Donguy also works with clients on acquisitions, leveraged buyouts (LBOs), and arranging and structuring financing solutions. He acts for a large number of clients in tax audits and any ensuing litigation.
Philippe Donneaud
Philippe Donneaud
Philippe Donneaud joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1995 and became a partner in 2007. He practices in tax law on all aspects of direct taxation for companies and senior executives, providing advice and representing them in litigation proceedings. He advises clients on the tax planning, structuring and management of their corporate operations and transactions. Philippe Donneaud assists with strategic planning and decision-making (financial and asset-related). He also provides advice to address ongoing and ad hoc tax issues. He represents clients in their dealings with the tax authorities, during pre-litigation and litigation proceedings, and in advance tax rulings and authorisation procedures. Philippe Donneaud also has extensive knowledge and experience of mergers and acquisitions, advising on the tax implications of acquisitions and disposals, corporate groups, mergers, and financial flows.
Pierre-Jean Douvier
Pierre-Jean Douvier
Pierre-Jean Douvier joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1986 and became a partner in 1991. He is based in Monaco. He practices in tax law. He works on international relations, tax conventions and agreements, European community law, OECD rules (base erosion and profit shifting, mutual administrative assistance, and exchange of information), European tax law, property law, inheritance and gifts, wealth tax, criminal tax law and anti-money laundering, trusts and foundations, legal, regulatory and tax regimes in and related to Monaco, international tax litigation, regulatory and tax compliance, and taxation of cross-border transactions (financing and refinancing, hybrid transactions, structural reorganisation, transfer pricing, permanent establishment, and effective management). Pierre-Jean Douvier advises families, family offices, French, European, US, and Asian multinationals.
Grégory Dumont
Grégory Dumont
Grégory Dumont joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2007 and became a partner in 2021. He practices in private client law. He advises clients on the transfer of their business assets within family groups, contingency planning for the consequences of a divorce or inheritance for clients’ assets, and the civil law aspects of international property and personal issues in the context of growing mobility. Grégory Dumont works mainly with senior company executives and high-net-worth individuals. He assists clients in litigation procedures (contested divorce and inheritance cases) and with asset planning taxation. He’s practice areas are the law on gifts, marriage regimes, inheritance law, joint possession law, division of property, life insurance, international private law, incapacity law, and capital transfer tax (on donations and inheritance).
Deana d’Almeida
Deana d’Almeida
Deana d’Almeida joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2015 and became a partner in 2020. She practices in international tax law of African countries and advises French and international companies operating on the African continent. Deana d’Almeida brings a wealth of experience across all areas of taxation. She offers clients a comprehensive approach covering all key project stages, from structuring and set-up to launch, expansion, and eventual exit from Africa. With her deep experience and in-depth knowledge of the African ecosystem, she offers clients pragmatic, tailored, and practical solutions across all sectors of the economy.
Bernt Elsner
Bernt Elsner
Bernt Elsner is partner and global head of the CMS Public Procurement Group. He is a leading expert in the fields of public procurement, antitrust and public law. He studied law at the University of Vienna and business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. In 1993-94 he worked as a research assistant at the Austrian Constitutional Court for the constitutional judges Prof. Dr. Karl Spielbüchler and Prof. Dr. Karl Korinek. In 1997 he practised European competition law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Brussels. From 2004 to 2010 he was Managing Partner of CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz. He has more than 24 years of professional experience in Vienna and Brussels. Bernt Elsner is one of the leading Austrian experts in the dynamic and constantly changing field of public procurement law. His numerous publications and lectures have had a significant impact on Austrian public procurement law. He advises public entities on the structuring of complex tenders, advises bidders on their participation in award procedures, especially public-private partnerships (PPP projects), and frequently represents them in public procurement disputes. He has extensive experience in tender-relevant compliance issues.
Egon Engin-Deniz
Egon Engin-Deniz
Dr Egon Engin-Deniz is a partner in the firm and has been with CMS since 1991. Egon Engin-Deniz is an attorney-at-law for intellectual property law and a leading expert in the fields of Life Sciences & Healthcare and TMC - Technology, Media & Telecommunications. He heads the Intellectual Property and Media Department of CMS in Vienna. He has extensive expertise in contentious and non-contentious trademark, domain and patent law, copyright including access control law, distribution and unfair competition law. His team specialises in the prosecution of product piracy and the examination of parallel imports. Egon Engin-Deniz is a recognised expert in cross-border litigation and licensing. Equally important as his intensive involvement in litigation activities are the strategic "cradle to grave" advisory services he provides to companies, starting from the choice of names and portfolio management to trademark, patents and licensing strategies. Up until 2008, Egon Engin-Deniz was state commissioner for the Austrian collecting societies OeSTIG und LSG.
Ignacio Errazquin
Ignacio Errazquin
Ignacio is head of  Technology, Media & Communication (TMC) Group at CMS Carey & Allende. He focuses his practice on mergers and acquisitions, telecom, project finance with an emphasis on mining and non-conventional renewable energy projects, private equity and the structuring of joint ventures for businesses in different sectors. He also advises on antitrust matters in connection with merger control procedures. During the first half of 2018, Ignacio worked on the Corporate/M&A team at CMS Francis Lefebvre in Paris, France, where he participated in multiple cross-border transactions within Europe and with the US. He also advises French companies on their establishment as well as their business development in Chile.  
Gregor Famira
Gregor Famira
Gregor Famira is partner at CMS Vienna and an expert for the hotel and leisure industry and  in corporate law/M&A. He is founder and head of the CMS offices in Zagreb (2003) and Ljubljana (2008) and also coordinates the firm’s activities in the area of Real Estate in CEE and has been active in CEE for 20 years. During this time, he has advised on numerous corporate and real estate transactions in the region Gregor Famira focusses on the asset classes ‘hotels’ and ‘trade’; he advises owners, financiers and operators/traders not only on transactions, but also on rental and lease agreements as well as franchise and hotel management contracts and real estate developments. Gregor Famira’s second pillar (since 2005) is advising mainly Austrian start-up companies.
Benoît Foucher
Benoît Foucher
Benoît Foucher joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2006 and became a partner in 2023. He practices in tax law and advises French and international banks on their asset financing, structured financing and trading activities. He also advises asset managers on the taxation of investment funds. Benoît Foucher regularly represents clients in tax audits and litigation proceedings involving banks. His work often involves issues related to financial markets and the financial arrangements of large corporates. An amateur trumpeter, Benoît Foucher is recognised as an expert on Aubertin trumpets and has written several articles on these instruments in specialist publications.
Julio Frías
Julio Frías
Julio is a partner and leads the Labor & Pensions team at CMS Carey &  Allende. He has more than ten years of experience, in which he has focused on labor litigation, collective bargaining, and dispute resolution. In addition, Julio has advised national and international companies in Chile on o including prevention of damages and strategic labour law advice to both local and international clients on a daily basis. He provides comprehensive advice to companies in various economic sectors, providing support in the hiring of personnel, the definition of special labor conditions, the structuring of compensation packages, occupational safety, the management of terminations and representation in labor litigation. The team he leads collaborates closely with the corporate and tax areas, actively participating in due diligence processes related to mergers and acquisitions.
Christophe Frionnet
Christophe Frionnet
Christophe Frionnet joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1997 and became a partner in 2009. He practices in direct taxation with a particular focus on taxation of corporate groups and non-profits, asset planning tax and property tax. He advises and represents clients during tax audits and litigation. He regularly assists groups with the tax aspects of HR management, including management packages, employee savings schemes, and profit-sharing plans. He also advises on leveraged buyouts (LBOs) and leveraged management buyouts (LMBOs)
Caroline Froger-Michon
Caroline Froger-Michon
Caroline Froger-Michon joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2003 and became a partner in 2015. She is a member of the CMS Employment, Labour & Pensions Group, working with a 600-strong international team of lawyers. She practices in employment and labour law. During restructuring operations, she advises clients on transitioning employment contracts, post-merger alignment of employee status, procedures for informing and consulting staff, and managing negotiations with personnel representatives. She also handles the labour law aspects of mergers and acquisitions, assisting with due diligence, the employment aspects of the legal structure of the new entity, negotiations with staff, and post-acquisition monitoring. Caroline Froger-Michon advises on the legal aspects of individual and company-wide employee relations, voluntary redundancy plans, and personnel representative rights. She provides support to international companies and corporate groups based in France or considering setting up in France. She also advises on internal investigations, with a particular focus on bullying and harassment cases.
Pabla Gainza
Pabla Gainza
Pabla is partner and leads the Real Estate & Construction practice area. She has been active in the sector for over two decades, she is a go-to practitioner for urban planning and zoning matters, development of pipelines, electric lines and other easement matters, as well as expropriation processes and regularisation of industrial plants and other real estate assets. Pabla was a part of the team that developed a Methodology for Integrated Projects for Santiago’s Inner Circle, for the World Bank’s PNUD program. She has also provided urban legal consulting for the Metropolitan SEREMI MINVU (Regional Secretariat for Urban Development Ministry of Chile), for the modification and creation of the Santiago Metropolitan Regulation Plan, on matters related to Patrimony and Public Areas. She is highly involved in the practice of contentious administrative cases, before the various State public entities, such as the Comptroller General of the Republic, SEREMI MINVU, Health Ministry Regional Secretariat’s Office, Urban Development Division, Public Works Directorate, etc. Key clients: Antofagasta Minerals (Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia (FCAB)), Banco Santander Chile S.A., Aki KB Minibogedas SpA., Banchile Inversiones S.A., Nevasa S.A. Administradora de Fondos, Unilever Chile S.A., Estée Lauder S.A.  (Cela Cosméticos S.A.)
Walter Gapp
Walter Gapp
Walter Gapp is an attorney-at-law who has specialized for many years in the fields of capital markets law and financial market regulation. He regularly advises on preparing issuance programmes as well as  bonds issuanceand regulatory capital instruments. He also focuses on the structuring and support of securitization transactions, new business models proposed by financial service providers, as well as giving comprehensive regulatory advice to banks, insurance companies and securities firms. Walter Gapp is repeatedly mentioned as a leading lawyer in the field of capital markets law and banking regulation, he has been described as "highly regarded" (IFLR 1000) and placed on the list of "best lawyers (banking and finance law)" (Handelsblatt 2019).
Frédéric Gerner
Frédéric Gerner
Frédéric Gerner joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1999 and became a partner in 2015. He practices in tax law with a particular focus on corporate taxation. He has extensive experience in restructuring, tax consolidation, and taxation of French and international groups more broadly. He has also developed specific in-depth knowledge of property sector taxation. His clients include developers, property subsidiaries of major banks, property investment advisers, and listed real estate investment companies (SIIC). Frédéric Gerner advises companies on setting up and managing their tax policies. He represents clients in their dealings with the tax authorities, including handling requests for technical decisions and managing tax audits. He is also an experienced tax litigator.
Benoît Gomel
Benoît Gomel
Benoît Gomel joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2015 and became a partner in 2023. He practices in mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions, representing clients across a range of sectors, including industry and investment funds, as well as senior executives and company founders. He advises industrial clients and infrastructure funds on all aspects of complex, long-term corporate projects. He also advises industrial groups and investment funds on establishing joint ventures. Benoît Gomel has a successful track record in the health sector and extensive experience in multi-jurisdictional complex transactions.
Philippe Gosset
Philippe Gosset
Philippe Gosset joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2012 and became a partner in 2022. He practices in tax law with a focus on estate planning and transactions. He advises entrepreneurs, high-net-worth individuals, private banks and family offices on the tax aspects of asset planning. His practice covers transfers (under the “Pacte Dutreil”, a favourable tax regime for the transfer of family businesses;  apport-cession, i.e. contribution-disposal of securities under Article 150-0 B ter of the French Tax Code; and, donation-cession, gift followed by sale), equity savings plans, business property financing, property wealth tax, life insurance policy taxation, etc. He also consults on employee and executive compensation, including founder share subscription warrants, bonus shares, employee share ownership and mobility. Philippe Gosset advises and handles litigation for corporate groups on corporate tax issues. He also assists investment funds on the tax implications of acquisition and refinancing transactions.
Dimitar Hadjiveltchev
Dimitar Hadjiveltchev
Dimitar Hadjiveltchev joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2001 and became a partner in 2016. He is co-heading the CMS Private Clients group since 2020. He advises high-net-worth individuals and families on complex national and international tax cases, including wealth and income structuring, intergenerational transfer planning, and supports clients in their international projects, whether in the context of their investment projects, particularly in luxury real estate and vineyards, or in their professional projects, as well in the determination of their tax residence. His expertise includes the advisory work for foreign trusts and similar structures, with respect to their tax treatment and their compliance duties. Dimitar Hadjiveltchev also assists his individual clients with their tax compliance (review, preparation, filing of personal tax returns - income tax, wealth tax and self-disclosure procedures) In his corporate practice, he supports French and international companies and groups in managing the preferred income tax regimes that can be applied to executives and high-potential managers. In the area of compliance, he coordinates and manages issues relating to personal tax returns (income tax, wealth tax, gift and inheritance tax returns) as well as the returns for the administrators of trusts and similar entities. Dimitar Hadjiveltchev also assesses whether clients’ situations or projects present potential risks in terms of anti-money laundering rules or rules against aggressive tax planning (DAC 6).
Bernhard Hainz
Bernhard Hainz
Bernhard Hainz is a partner at CMS in Vienna and head of the specialist Employment and Pension Law Department. Bernhard Hainz is one of the leading specialists in Austria and for more than 30 years has primarily advised companies in all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters, including the negotiation of collective agreements, works agreements, social plans, disputes with works councils and employees, service agreements and dissolution agreements as well as pension and pension fund matters. As a result of his previous position as an assistant at the Vienna University Institute for Employment Law and Social Law, Bernhard Hainz and his team combine high-level academic qualifications with many years of practical legal experience. In addition, Bernhard Hainz has expertise in the area of art law and in this connection he represents artists and art institutions both nationally and internationally.
Mohamed Haj Taieb
Mohamed Haj Taieb
Mohamed Haj Taieb joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2015 and became a partner in 2024. He practices in tax law with a focus on transfer pricing, company valuation, management packages, and intangible assets. He advises international corporate groups on defining, managing, and defending their transfer pricing policies. He provides initial strategic counsel, analyses transfer pricing documentation, represents clients during tax audits, and assists with amicable and contentious dispute resolution. Mohamed Haj Taieb has extensive experience in asset valuation in a broad range of contexts, including legal restructuring, disposals and acquisitions, litigation, equity and debt transactions, and management packages.
Thomas Hamerl
Thomas Hamerl
Thomas Hamerl is an attorney-at-law for infrastructure projects & public private partnerships and a leading expert in public procurement law as well as real estate & construction. He is a specialist for national and international construction projects, infrastructure and public private partnerships as well as energy projects. He has particular expertise in national and international construction contract law, public procurement law including concessions, infrastructure-oriented dispute resolution including litigation and arbitration, real estate and energy law. Thomas Hamerl has experience in infrastructure projects for roads, railways, airports, hospitals, schools, waste collection and disposal, site remediation, power plants (PV, wind, biomass, water). He has been working as a legal consultant for around 20 years and joined CMS in 2009. He brings to the consulting practice his experience as in-house counsel of an international construction group, where he was head of the legal department in Vienna and head of the group-wide “Legal Practice Group PPP”. Prior to that, he worked for renowned Viennese law firms in Austria and Central and Eastern Europe as well as for the European Commission in Brussels.
William Hamon
William Hamon
William Hamon joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2007 and became a partner in 2023. He practices on VAT, indirect taxes, and payroll taxes across all sectors, with an emphasis on industrial and commercial businesses (luxury goods, cosmetics, defence, automotive, agri-foods and data centres). He advises companies on transactions both within and outside the European Union. He supports clients during tax audits and individual and collective rulings, and represents clients in tax litigation proceedings. William Hamon also has extensive experience handling issues faced by holding companies. He has successfully represented many clients in resolving disputes related to the C3S (French corporate social solidarity contribution).
Günther Hanslik
Günther Hanslik
Günther Hanslik is a partner in the transactions team of CMS Vienna, focusing on finance transactions, restructurings and corporate transactions. As head of the transactional finance team of CMS Vienna, he supports clients in high-profile projects in Austria and CEE. He continuously acts on behalf of leading European financial institutions as well as large corporations. Günther Hanslik has been teaching at the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration for many years.  
François Hellio
François Hellio
François Hellio joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1990 and became a partner in 2001. He was appointed chairman of the firm's Management Board in 2024. He practices in tax law and advises clients on all aspects of international taxation with a particular focus on transfer pricing and litigation. François Hellio advises French and international listed corporate groups and family businesses on financing and structuring their investments, including property investments, in France and other countries. In addition to his core practice, he also advises clients on managing tax litigation. Backed by more than six years in our Berlin office, he brings in-depth knowledge of Franco-German taxation.
Laurent Hepp
Laurent Hepp
Laurent Hepp joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1992 and became a partner in 2004. He practices in tax law and advises French and international corporate groups on all aspects of their tax affairs in France. He has a particular focus on the tax structuring of corporate transactions. He regularly operates in private equity sector, advising investment fund on tax structuring of acquisitions, and on all aspects of taxation for funds and their unitholders. Laurent Hepp also assists entrepreneurs, shareholders, senior executives and private clients with their personal and asset planning tax matters.
Peter Huber
Peter Huber is head of the International Corporate Transactions team of CMS Austria. He looks back on more than 25 years of professional experience in corporate transactions, including more than four years with major investment banks. His main areas of practice are M&A (including privatisations and public takeovers) and corporate law (including corporate governance) in Austria as well as Central and Eastern Europe. Peter Huber advises a range of major Austrian corporations and major shareholders as well as groups of shareholders on corporate transactions, restructurings, shareholders’ agreements and governance structures, including advice on legal issues resulting from shareholder activism. He also advises major private equity houses on investments and exits.
Johannes Hysek
Johannes Hysek
Johannes Hysek is an attorney-at-law for real estate law. He advises national and international clients on a wide range of topics from financing agreements to the acquisition, sale and development of commercial real estate and real estate portfolios. For many years he has advised numerous Austrian and international clients—including insurance companies and funds—on real estate transactions (including mortgage-backed syndicated loan agreements), privatisations and corporate restructurings. In addition, he regularly supports international (luxury) brands in their market entry and the establishment of flagship stores in Austria. Johannes Hysek has been a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) for many years and is a lecturer at the FH for Real Estate Management. Johannes Hysek has been nominated for the award Acritas Stars 2021.
Luc Jaillais
Luc Jaillais
Luc Jaillais joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1991 and became a partner in 2008. He practices in tax law with a focus on asset planning taxation. Luc Jaillais advises private banks, entrepreneurs and high-net-worth individuals on the tax aspects of asset planning. His practice covers business and asset transfers, contributions and gifts (including under the Pacte Dutreil, a favourable tax regime for the transfer of family businesses, apport-cession, contribution-disposal of securities under Article 150-0 B ter of the French Tax Code, and donation-cession, gift followed by sale). He advises on share savings plans, business property financing, property wealth tax and life insurance policy taxation. Luc Jaillais also consults on structuring employee and executive compensation, handling founder share subscription warrants, bonus shares, employee shareholding plans and mobility.
Johannes Juranek
Johannes Juranek
Johannes Juranek is managing partner of CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz and an expert in technology, data protection and business law. He has extensive experience in handling complex legal cases in the areas of IT law, data protection and commercial law. Among other things, he advises clients on the implementation of compliance regulations in connection with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). His clients include technology, software and industrial companies, banks and healthcare companies. Johannes Juranek also represents clients before courts and arbitration tribunals in these areas.  
Daniela Karollus-Bruner
Daniela Karollus-Bruner
Daniela Karollus-Bruner is a partner at CMS and leads our dispute resolution group as well as the insurance industry team. In addition, she is a member of our teams for corporate and commercial law. She has many years of experience with highly complex litigation and arbitration cases for clients from various industries, with a special focus on the energy, media, banking, financial services and insurance industries. She represents Austrian and international clients at courts and at arbitration courts with a focus on cases involving damages, contracts, product liability, corporate and competition law. During and after law school in Vienna and Paris, she held assistant positions with the University of Vienna Law School (e.g. at the Department of Civil Law). She has over 20 years of experience as a lawyer in Vienna and Linz. In addition, she is a sought-after speaker at executive seminars as well as author and co-author of various expert articles.
Olivier Kuhn
Olivier Kuhn
Olivier Kuhn joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2003 and became a partner in 2016. He is joint manager of our Dispute Resolution practice and handles the full spectrum of business litigation and criminal business law matters. He advises French and international clients on company law disputes, including conflicts between shareholders, liability of corporate officers, removal of corporate officers, enforcement of representations and warranties, and triggering of earn-out clauses. He also manages complex commercial litigation cases, including all forms of contract disputes at every stage (formation, performance and termination), all forms of tortious litigation, unfair competition, and the sudden termination of established commercial relations. His practice extends to a wide range of criminal business law proceedings, under criminal company law, criminal tax law, criminal employment law, criminal environment law, criminal competition and consumer law, criminal financial and stock market law, and press law.
Arnaud Le Boulanger
Arnaud Le Boulanger
Arnaud Le Boulanger joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2003 and became a partner in 2008. He practices in tax law and leads the CMS economics team responsible for transfer pricing, company valuation, and asset valuation analyses. He assists and advises clients throughout the tax process, from strategic counsel at planning stages to tax audit defence and litigation. He conducts audits of transfer pricing policies and documentation and offers structured solutions across the entire transfer pricing chain. He also assists clients with advance pricing agreements (APA) and amicable dispute resolution. Arnaud Le Boulanger has developed a comprehensive and integrated practice to provide French and international clients with the full range of taxation and economic analysis services. Company and asset valuation is a core part of his work. Valuation plays a critical role in transfer pricing and in the legal and tax transactions that arise during reorganisation of companies or their shareholder base.
Dimitri Leboff
Dimitri Leboff
Dimitri Leboff joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1999 and became a partner in 2013. He acts for French and international corporate groups on direct taxation (day-to-day tax matters, tax consolidation, transfer pricing, research tax credit (CIR), dividend taxation, audits, etc.), mergers and acquisitions, disposals and restructuring, as well as managing and assisting on tax audits and litigation. In addition to advising corporate tax, financial and accounting departments, he provides senior managers with asset planning advice. Dimitri Leboff coordinates all tax issues for his French and international corporate clients (in Europe, Asia, and America), drawing on the support of the CMS organisation.
Christophe Leclère
Christophe Leclère
Christophe Leclère joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2007 and became a partner in 2018. He practices in tax law and assists companies, corporate groups and non-profits on direct taxation (including corporation tax), frequently drawing on his in-depth knowledge of accounting. His work covers: General taxation, review of taxable income, corporate group taxation, taxation aspects of restructuring, financial and transaction taxation, innovation taxation, tax credits, and international tax law; Supporting clients in dealings with the tax authorities on claims, tax rulings, payments and adjustments; Acting for clients during tax audits, tax raids, tax flagrancy procedures and litigation. He advises industrial and commercial groups across all sectors of the economy, especially international defence, technology, media and communications groups. Christophe Leclère also assists and acts for senior executives and partners, as well as resident and non-resident individuals (as required by the CMS organisation) on personal tax, asset planning tax, and filing the appropriate returns.
Gonçalo Madeira
Gonçalo Madeira is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution and Insolvency & Restructuring teams. With over 20 years of experience, he represents a roster of clients, in disputes arising from commercial relations between companies, purchase and sale agreements, supply and service agreements, works contracts, agency agreements, or commercial concession agreements in general, among others. He also has experience in disputes relating to non-contractual civil liability. Gonçalo advises national and international clients both in the pre-litigation stage and in disputes before judicial or arbitral courts. Gonçalo is recognised for Litigation and Insolvency and Reorganization Law by Best Lawyers since 2019. He is also acknowledged as Excellent for Restructuring & Insolvency by Leaders League 2024 Joined CMS Rui Portugal in 2022.
Laurent Marquet de Vasselot
Laurent Marquet de Vasselot
Laurent Marquet de Vasselot joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1991 and became a partner in 1998. He practices in employment, labour and pensions. He works with corporate clients, advising, defending, and representing them in negotiations. He helps clients implement their labour relations and human resources policies, manage labour relations issues, and to complete restructuring operations. He is an experienced litigator and represents clients in high-stakes disputes. Laurent Marquet de Vasselot acts for large corporate clients from a cross-section of the economy, including distribution, services, industry, luxury goods, banking, and finance.
Romain Marsella
Romain Marsella
Romain Marsella joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2000 and became a partner in 2014. He practices in tax law and provides advice and handles litigation for national and international corporate groups on all aspects of taxation. He has a particular focus on the insurance and renewable energy sectors. He has extensive experience over a long period advising insurance groups on the French Insurance Code and the Mutuality Code: during reorganisations (which often involve insurance portfolio transfers); and during tax audits (including negotiations with the National and International Tax Audit Directorate (DVNI) and disputes litigated before the courts). He also advises renewable energy groups on acquisitions, disposals, financing/refinancing, and reorganisation (mergers, spin-offs) and provides support during tax audits.
Tiziana Masone
Tiziana Masone
Tiziana Masone began her collaboration with the firm in 2013 as Associate. She is a member of the Administrative and Public Law Department. Her experience focuses on the field of administrative law, with particular reference to aspects of legal advice, drafting of court documents and legal opinions, legal research, assistance to public and private companies in both judicial and extrajudicial matters (disputes before administrative courts). Tiziana assists companies operating nationally and internationally, in particular in the areas of public procurement and expropriation, public concessions and utilities.
Rodolphe Olivier
Rodolphe Olivier
Rodolphe Olivier joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1997 and became a partner in 2010. He practices in employment, labour and pensions law. He co-leads the litigation team and is particularly involved in disputes relating to employment, labour and pensions law before first-instance courts (the employment tribunal, the tribunal judiciaire (trial court), the tribunal de police, the tribunal correctionnel, the administrative court) and the administrative court of appeal, and the arbitration commission for journalists in France, the CAJ.
Maïté Ollivier
Maïté Ollivier
Maïté Ollivier joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2011 and became a partner in 2023. She practices in  employment, labour and pensions law and advises French and international corporates and large groups on: individual employment relationships (management of senior executives, corporate officers, employment contracts, pay, health and safety in the workplace, prevention of psychosocial risks, and whistleblowing procedures); international mobility; collective bargaining (duration and organisation of working hours, workplace well-being, and equality in the workplace); employee representation (workplace committees – economic and social committee, health, safety and working conditions committees, group committee, and the European Works Council); restructuring and reduction in headcount, labour relations aspects of mergers and legal restructuring; employment audits, individual and collective disputes; high-stakes litigation (before the courts (judiciaires and correctionnels) in cases on the supply of staff, offence of obstruction, discrimination, and harassment); management of relations with the labour authorities; employee saving plans and management packages.
Indir Osmić
Indir Osmić is an attorney at law in cooperation with CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz admitted to the FBiH Bar. He joined CMS Sarajevo in 2011. His main fields of expertise are Corporate law, Finance law, Tax Law, Energy Law and Compliance.  Indir’s work also includes corporate finance work, such as coordinating M&A deals with focus on finance structuring and regulatory. He has expanded his experience by working as a country team leader in complex regional cross-border transaction projects.    Besides mentioned, Mr. Osmic possesses experience in commercial, administrative and tax litigation cases where he advised and represented a number of international clients.
Delphine Pannetier
Delphine Pannetier
Delphine Pannetier joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2001 and became a partner in 2025. She practices in employment, labour and pensions law, focusing on managing litigation with the French social security administration, URSSAF for clients across various industries. Her practice includes pre-audit inspection, preparing for audit, and managing and monitoring out-of-court and in-court disputes. She has developed strong relationships with agencies and government bodies in the course of her work. Delphine Pannetier has extensive experience in employee health and safety risks, management of working time, international mobility, senior management, pay practices and employee savings schemes.
Klaus Pateter
Klaus Pateter
Klaus Pateter is an attorney-at law for Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMC), FinTech & Digital Assets, IT Law, Data Protection, Digitalisation & Start-ups. Klaus Pateter advises and represents his clients in the areas of regulatory law, digital assets, IT law, licensing of technology and software (domestic & international), data protection law and medical technology. He also specialises in advising tech start-ups in all phases of growth and advises on setting up corporate structures as well as on founding and financing, in particular in the area of venture capital. He heads the Start-up Advisory Group of CMS Austria and coordinates equIP, CMS' renowned legal accelerator for tech start-ups.
Stefan Paulmayer
Stefan Paulmayer
Stefan Paulmayer is an attorney-at-law for banking and finance law, specialising in financing, asset-backed financing (securitisation), restructuring/insolvency law, derivative transactions and (banking) supervisory law. As an expert in banking and finance, he has advised on both large (real estate) financing and large (cross-border) restructuring transactions. Another focus of his previous work is the area of bank restructuring and settlement. Most recently, he focused on the area of New Technologies such as SmartContracts and Blockchain where he is active as both legal advisor of FinTech companies as well as lecturer. Stefan Paulmayer has more than eleven years of professional experience.
Nathalie Pétrignet
Nathalie Pétrignet
Nathalie Pétrignet joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1989 and became a partner in 2009. She advises on French and European competition law and focuses on restrictive competition practices, trade negotiations, distribution policy, sales promotion and advertising law, and the circular economy. Her practice concentrates on businesses in the consumer market, clients for whom ensuring their sales and marketing policies are aligned with competition law is of critical strategic importance. She also works on audits to ensure compliance with payment terms. She advises and acts for clients in litigation proceedings before the commercial courts and the French and European competition authorities. She also conducts audits of operations for groups and professional associations, advises clients on establishing and monitoring compliance programmes, and assists during investigations and dawn raids. Nathalie Pétrignet has developed extensive experience in environment law in B2C relations handling issues including greenwashing, carbon offsetting, the French Climate Act, the anti-waste and circular economy act (AGEC), extended producer responsibility, the eco-contribution, and Triman labelling requirements.
Radivoje Petrikić
Radivoje Petrikić
Radivoje Petrikić is a partner at CMS in Vienna and has been the managing partner of the Serbian CMS office in Belgrade since its establishment in 2000. As a leading expert in the fields of corporate/M&A, competition law & EU, corporate law, commercial law as well as finance and project financing, he has more than 20 years of experience in extensive commercial and M&A transactions and development projects throughout the CEE region. He has an in-depth understanding of all corporate and financial issues faced by companies operating in transitional markets. He is also an experienced advisor to regulators in these markets. Radivoje Petrikić is one of Serbia's leading M&A lawyers, leading a team that has advised on many landmark corporate and commercial law cases, as well as privatisations, in a variety of industries over the past 20 years. He has been appointed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as senior legal advisor on the revision of Serbian corporate law and PPP legislation
Benoît Provost
Benoît Provost
Benoît Provost joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1990 and became a partner in 2020. He primarily advises on consolidation and restructuring transactions for both listed and privately held companies. Benoît Provost handles all aspects of corporate law and transactions involving business consolidation, reorganisations and restructuring (mergers, spin-offs, domestic and cross-border reorganisations), private equity, and management packages. He also supports companies and corporate groups on governance issues, including the appointment of corporate officers, limits on the powers of directors, executive compensation, delegation of authority, and succession planning. He assists clients with their sustainability reporting obligations (CSRD) and with drafting corporate and legal documents.
Alexander Rakosi
Alexander Rakosi
Alexander Rakosi is a partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz and a member of the corporate transactions team in Vienna. He is a leading expert for corporate law/M&A as well as private equity and insolvency & restructuring. Alexander Rakosi advises leading corporations, investment funds and financial institutions in the areas of M&A, private equity and restructuring in both domestic and international projects. After his law studies in Vienna and at the University of Michigan Law School (LLM), Alexander Rakosi worked for several years at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York in the areas of M&A, private equity and corporate finance. Alexander Rakosi is also admitted to the bar in England/Wales and New York.
Denis Redon
Denis Redon
Denis Redon joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1990 and became a partner in 2004. He practices in anti-trust, competition and trade with a focus on merger control, cartels and abuse of dominant position, restrictive trade practices, anti-competitive practices, economic regulations, unfair business practices, distribution law and customs and excise law. Denis Redon advises corporate clients on a broad range of competition issues. His practice also extends to audits, including compliance audits. He represents clients during audits by the competition authorities, the DGCCRF (French consumer protection agency) and the customs authorities. He is involved from the initial investigation stage through to defending or contesting the merits of the case and appeals. He also acts for clients in litigation proceedings with other partners in these areas.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig is a partner in the firm’s Corporate and Litigation Group at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz. For many years, Johannes has been one of the leading corporate lawyers in Austria and a highly esteemed litigator. As professor at the University of Vienna, Law school he has an outstanding academic reputation. He is author of various commentaries, books and articles with a particular focus on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust and partnership law, including the leading commentary on the Austrian Act on limited liability companies. He is co-editor of “ecolex”, the leading Austrian commercial law journal. Johannes Reich-Rohrwig has been nominated for the award Acritas Stars 2021.
Enrique Remón
Enrique Remón
Enrique Remón, Partner of the Dispute Resolution & Arbitration department of CMS Albiñana & Suárez de Lezo, is a Public Prosecutor on professional leave of absence and is an expert in criminal law. He is recognized by Legal 500 as a Leading Partner in the White Collar Crime category. His renowned career in the field of white-collar crime has developed within the Public Prosecutor's Office, notably as Public Prosecutor of the province of Madrid and dean of the White-Collar Crime Section of the Province of Madrid Public Prosecutor's Office. In this role, he was responsible, inter alia, for the supervision and carrying out of investigations into and prosecutions of white-collar crimes, and of managing the Judicial Police assigned to this section.
Johann Roc\'h
Johann Roc\'h
Johann Roc'h joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2006 and became a partner in 2017. He practices in tax law. He advises on all aspects of taxation of international corporate restructuring (acquisitions, reorganisations, and rationalisation), optimising the tax efficiency of cross-border financial flows (reducing or eliminating tax friction, utilising intangible assets), financing and refinancing (working closely with banks on structuring loans and refinancing), and tax structuring of cross-border investments in securities and property. Johann Roc'h’s clients are primarily large industrial groups.
Anne-Sophie Rostaing
Anne-Sophie Rostaing
Anne-Sophie Rostaing joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2002 and became a partner in 2016. She practices in direct taxation, particularly corporate taxation (acquisitions, restructuring, tax consolidation, tax audits and tax litigation), and property tax (for property funds such as SIICs, SCPIs and OPCIs). Her main clients include REITs, real estate management companies, real estate developers, privately-owned real estate groups, as well as large French and international groups operating mainly in the industrial, construction and insurance sectors.
Aurore-Emmanuelle Rubio
Aurore-Emmanuelle Rubio
Aurore-Emmanuelle Rubio joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2010 and became a partner in 2025. She practices in energy and climate change law with a particular focus on decarbonisation across the entire energy sector – renewables (offshore wind, hydro power, geothermal, biofuels, with/without storage), low-carbon (nuclear, hydrogen, and electrofuels), and fossil fuels. Her practice also covers demand-side management. She has extensive experience in the development of energy projects in France (project structuring, negotiation of industrial and operational contracts for energy infrastructure construction projects, Engineering, Procurement and Construction (EPC), Operation and Maintenance (O&M), Transitional Services Agreements (TSA), Balance of Plant (BoP) contracts, negotiation of agreements for the monetization of production, e.g., CPPA, aggregation, tolling, etc., whether based on international standards or not). She is also recognised for her experience and knowledge of energy and carbon regulations (regulation of essential infrastructure, capacity mechanism, flexibility, adjustment mechanism, sustainable mobility and EV charging infrastructure, carbon markets, C02 quotas, and Phase 2 of the Emissions Trading System (ETS2)). Aurore-Emmanuelle Rubio also supports corporate clients with resolving energy efficiency and GHG emissions issues.
Nedžida Salihović-Whalen
Nedžida Salihović-Whalen
Nedžida Salihović-Whalen is CEE partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz. She has over 20 years of experience in advising clients on corporate, M&A, commercial, banking and employment matters as well as experience in dispute resolution. Nedzida is experienced in setting up corporate and business structures in Bosnia and Herzegovina and regularly advises clients on the regulatory and commercial environment under Bosnian law. She also represents clients in litigation. Nedzida has an LLM from a US university and has been continuously selected as a leading lawyer in BiH. Nedžida Salihović-Whalen was a member of several international legal working groups and took part in drafting laws regarding legal and economic reforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is heavily involved in major banking and finance deals, both transactional and project-based work. Her involvement ranges from supervising the deals, to advising clients on particular aspects of the transactions. Nedzida is an examiner of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Bar Exam Commission for commercial law for the last ten years.
Marc-Etienne Sébire
Marc-Etienne Sébire
Marc-Etienne Sébire joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2011 and became a partner in 2014. He established our Capital Markets practice in France and is involved in Debt Capital Markets, Equity Capital Markets and Derivatives. He acts for issuers and financial institutions on all types of capital markets transactions (more than €150 billion financed since 2011): spanning Eurobonds, EMTN programmes, hybrid securities, Commercial Paper, covered bonds, Euro PPs, green bonds, social bonds, sustainability-linked bonds, and liability management transactions. Marc-Etienne Sébire has also extensive experience in derivatives, advising on their documentation (ISDA, FBF, etc.) and on regulatory aspects (EMIR, etc.). He is regularly consulted by government authorities and professional associations on capital market matters.
Eva Selvaggiuolo
Eva Selvaggiuolo
Eva Selvaggiuolo joined CMS Rome office in 2012, focusing on banking and finance law, commercial and corporate law. Eva assists leading national and international financial institutions such as banks, payment institutions, IMELs, financial intermediaries, on regulatory aspects relating to both domestic and cross-border operations as well as on  extraordinary business reorganization transactions, expansion and start-up operations, as well as on the set-up of the financial contractual documentation (leasing, acquiring, current account and financing agreements, anti-money laundering forms, etc.). Eva assists various Italian and foreign companies operating in the Fintech sector. Eva regularly advises leading commercial companies active in different sectors and in both domestic and foreign markets on financing, corporate finance, project finance, intra-group financial, commercial, private equity and M&A transactions as well as on anti-money laundering aspects. Eva has also gained significant experience in the energy sector, assisting leading foreign players operating on the Italian market in corporate financing, restructuring and reorganization transactions, and managing every corporate and financial aspect relating to the management of day-to-day business.
Peter Šimo
Peter Šimo
Peter Šimo is Of Counsel at CMS in Bratislava, Head of German Desk in Bratislava and a member of the international transaction team. He has a track record of more than fifteen years acting as an advisor to international and local clients in CEE, in particular in the area of Corporate/M&A, Banking & Finance and Property transactions Peter Šimo has advised on several of the most significant corporate and financing transactions in Slovakia and the CEE region, including syndicated financings, mergers & acquisitions, cross-border mergers, private equity deals, corporate restructurings as well as day-to-day banking and corporate matters, regulatory issues and general contract matters (e.g. joint ventures, partnerships and shareholders' agreements). He advises clients from various sectors including financial institutions, insurances, real estate & construction, automotive, retail and manufacturing business. Peter Šimo also regularly performs overall project management in due diligence exercises.
Peter Šimo 
Peter Šimo 
Peter Šimo is Of Counsel at CMS in Bratislava, Head of German Desk in Bratislava and a member of the international transaction team. He has a track record of more than fifteen years acting as an advisor to international and local clients in CEE, in particular in the area of Corporate/M&A, Banking & Finance and Property transactions Peter Šimo has advised on several of the most significant corporate and financing transactions in Slovakia and the CEE region, including syndicated financings, mergers & acquisitions, cross-border mergers, private equity deals, corporate restructurings as well as day-to-day banking and corporate matters, regulatory issues and general contract matters (e.g. joint ventures, partnerships and shareholders' agreements). He advises clients from various sectors including financial institutions, insurances, real estate & construction, automotive, retail and manufacturing business. Peter Šimo also regularly performs overall project management in due diligence exercises.
Matías Somarriva
Matías Somarriva
Matías is Head of the Intellectual Property Group at CMS Carey & Allende. He has over 20-years of experience in cases relating to trademarks, patents, industrial designs, litigation, copyright, and unfair competition, among other matters. He is the React partner In Chile. Endorsed in Chambers and Partners, The Legal 500, Best Lawyers, and WTR 1000. Ranked among Latin America’s best anti-counterfeiting experts by World Trade Review, 2018. He was recognised with the Membership Champion Award  by International Trademark Association (INTA) for helping to grow membership, increase awareness, and promote member benefits, demonstrating his passion for trademark and related intellectual property law.
Gabriela Staber
Gabriela Staber
Gabriela Staber is an attorney-at-law specialising in intellectual property and unfair competition law with a sector focus on life sciences & healthcare and TMC (technology, media & telecommunications).  She advises on issues related to the marketing and distribution of pharmaceuticals and medical devices as well as the protection of intellectual property. Her expertise includes advertising and product labelling, compliance, restructuring of distribution systems, reimbursement / market access, clinical trials, licensing, counterfeits and parallel imports and dispute resolution.
François Tenailleau
François Tenailleau
François Tenailleau joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1998 and became a partner in 2010. He leads the firm’s Infrastructure & Projects practice and co-leads the Aerospace & Defence team. He advises on public business law issues with a focus on public procurement contracts, concessions, public-private partnerships, agreements involving the use of public property, and structuring complex contractual arrangements. He also acts for clients on other aspects of public law, including public property law, financing of public bodies, public and quasi-public institutions, social housing, and state aid. François Tenailleau is regularly consulted by government bodies and professional organisations on matters within his fields. He is a regular contributor to Ministry of Finance expert groups, such as those formed to draft the French public procurement code, to revise the general terms and conditions of public procurement contracts and to consult on the revision of European public procurement directives.
Pamela Turok
Pamela Turok
Pamela is a senior associate based in our Glasgow office. She advises on all aspects of environmental regulatory compliance and enforcement including waste management, pollution prevention and control issues, and contaminated land. Pamela also regularly provides transactional support to our corporate and property departments. Pamela spent a year on secondment to the Scottish Environment Protection Agency where she advised on all aspects of environmental regulation and enforcement as well as being heavily involved with the training of the new environmental specialist procurator fiscals.
Ramón Valdivieso
Ramón Valdivieso
Ramón is co-head of the Corporate/M&A practice area and leads the Technology, Media & Communications team. His practice focuses on corporate; capital markets & finance; M&A and private equity transactions, both in Chile as well as in other Latin American countries, where he has played a major part in the international expansion of various Chilean companies. In capital markets, Ramón advises issuing companies and investment banks in the issuance, registration, and placement of securities, assisting companies that enter into this market on all essential matters, ensuring transparency and timeliness in the information to the market, and continual improvement of corporate governance, securing future access to the market as a source of financing.  In this regard, Ramón has lead various public tender offers (OPA), including non-solicited takeover bids. Ramón is a well-known expert in sectors related to telecommunications and information technologies. Key clients:  Sonda S.A, Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS), Bupa S.A., Salfacorp S.A., Karün, American Tower Corp., Besalco S.A., KKR Investment Fund.
Enrique Vergara
Enrique Vergara
Enrique is partner and head of Banking & Finance Group at CMS Carey & Allende since 2015. His practice focuses on financing, reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and corporate law. He has advised local and foreign clients on banking and financial matters, especially in syndicated loans, project finance for the infrastructure and energy sector, debt restructurings, credit transfers, and in the issuance and placement of corporate bonds that are publicly listed and offered on the market.
Jens Winter
Jens Winter
Jens Winter is an attorney-at-law in the field of employment law. He is a partner at CMS and advises national and international companies mainly on questions of individual and collective employment law, data protection law in the area of employment law and company pension law. He is the author of numerous publications and is frequently asked to lecture on this area of expertise. He has many years of experience representing national and international clients before courts and public authorities. In addition, he has extensive practical experience in the implementation and realisation of company restructuring and the spin-off or merger of businesses or individual business units in the course of domestic or international transfers of operations. He has also been called on for his employment law expertise in the evaluation and realisation of several domestic and cross-border transactions.
Christoph Wolf
Christoph Wolf
Christoph Wolf is a partner at CMS and heads the employment and pensions team together with Bernhard Hainz. For over 15 years he has been particularly advising companies with respect to judicial and extra-judicial labour law matters, including the implementation of restructuring measures, negotiating works agreements and redundancy plans as well as settling disputes with works councils and employees.  An additional focal point of his work revolves around providing support to former state-owned companies, as well as dealing with various labour law-related issues in the area of compliance projects. He also advises clients on legal issues concerning the international secondment of staff as well as all labour law topics relevant in the field of compliance. In addition, Christoph Wolf has served and continues to serve as a lecturer at the University of Vienna, the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, the Danube University Krems as well as the Medical University of Vienna.
Álvaro Yáñez
Álvaro Yáñez
Álvaro is a Partner of the firm and co-leads the Energy & Climate Change team. He is a Doctor of Law from the Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario. Álvaro began his career as a civil judge in Cúcuta (Colombia) and later moved to Bogotá where he opened his independent law firm. He has advised various national and foreign companies, including Financial Institutions, Oil & Gas Companies, Industrial and Commercial Corporations. On multiple occasions he has been appointed to represent the interests in dispute as legal representative of various companies in the energy sector. In addition, he is a former member of the board of directors of the Franco Colombian Bank, the Colombian-French Chamber of Commerce, and was a founding member of the Colombian-Chilean Chamber of Commerce. He has also been a professor of commercial law at the Universidad del Rosario and the Universidad Santo Tomás.
Andrea Zubović-Devedžić
Andrea Zubović-Devedžić
Andrea Zubović-Devedžić is an attorney with experience in legal work in Bosnia and Herzegovina, admitted to the Bar after passing the Bar exam. She joined CMS Sarajevo in 2010. Her fields of expertise range from Banking and Finance and Corporate, litigation with significant experience in legal advising in number of other practice areas. Besides mentioned, Ms Zubovic-Devedzic possesses experience in legal advising in number of other practice areas and for the past seven years she advised a number of international clients in all commercial, corporate and property law issues.Andrea Zubović-Devedžić is a partner in cooperation with CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz. She specialises in banking and finance and the corporate field and has significant experience in litigation and legal advising in a number of other practice areas. For the past nine years, she has advised a number of international clients in all commercial, corporate and property law issues. She is experienced in banking and finance law, having been involved in some of the most innovative and ground-breaking banking and finance projects conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with particular emphasis on the local regulatory framework and structuring of the transactions. In particular, she has advised clients on the regulatory aspects of the different types of financial operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, coupled with transactional advice regarding financing projects including loans, capital markets, and syndicated structures, NPL restructuring and corporate aspects relevant for the finance industry.