{"id":1478870,"date":"2024-05-14T08:17:28","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T08:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legal500.com\/profiles\/?post_type=meet-the-team&#038;p=1478870"},"modified":"2026-03-31T10:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T10:36:18","slug":"commercial-litigation-and-defective-products-litigation","status":"publish","type":"meet-the-team","link":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/profiles\/meet-the-team\/commercial-litigation-and-defective-products-litigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Commercial Litigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><span class=\"normaltextrun\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong>Squadra Avocats<\/strong>&#8216; commercial litigation team has grown rapidly over the past few years. Its development has been driven by the arrival of two new partners from prominent firms: <strong>Beno\u00eet Javaux<\/strong> (from <strong>August Debouzy<\/strong>, and <strong>Quinn Emanuel Urquhart &amp; Sullivan<\/strong>) and <strong>Charles Morel<\/strong> (from <strong>Altana<\/strong>, and <strong>August Debouzy<\/strong>). Both worked at <strong>August &amp; Debouzy<\/strong> before joining <strong>Squadra Avocats<\/strong>, as <strong>Jean-Baptiste Belin<\/strong> did (<strong>Atos<\/strong>, <strong>August &amp; Debouzy<\/strong>, <strong>Franklin<\/strong>) up until his arrival to the cabinet in September 2018. Partners <strong>Beno\u00eet Javaux<\/strong>, <strong>Charles Morel<\/strong>, and <strong>Jean-Baptiste Belin<\/strong> share a common way of working &#8211; driven by excellence, innovation, and accountability. Together, they are used to working as a team in complex and cross-practice commercial litigation. Partner <strong>Sol\u00ebn Gu\u00e9zille<\/strong> joined <strong>Squadra Avocats<\/strong>&#8216; commercial litigation team in March 2019.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><span lang=\"EN-GB\"><strong>Squadra Avocats<\/strong>&#8216; commercial litigation team covers a wide range of procedures &#8211; including business litigation (in commercial and criminal courts), compliance \/ anticorruption, insurance (advice and litigation), civil liability (including duty of care), domestic and international arbitration, ADR and court-mandated expert proceedings.<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">Partners <strong>Sol\u00ebn Gu\u00e9zille<\/strong>, <strong>Beno\u00eet Javaux<\/strong>, <strong>Charles Morel<\/strong>, and <strong>Jean-Baptiste Belin<\/strong> dedicate a significant part of their time to commercial litigation &#8211; sometimes working collaboratively on the same matters when required by<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-GB\">cross-practices issues.<\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div><span class=\"normaltextrun\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">All of them have extensive experience in commercial litigation issues. Partner <strong>Sol\u00ebn Gu\u00e9zille<\/strong> is a seasoned commercial litigation expert, and is capable of providing valuable insights on insurance, construction issues, product liability and mediation.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"apple-converted-space\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\">Partner <strong>Beno\u00eet Javaux<\/strong>, as both counsel and mediator, has dealt with complex commercial and corporate disputes of all kinds for over eighteen years, with particular skills on fast-track proceedings, trade secret, arbitration, mediation and class action. Partner <strong>Charles Morel<\/strong> involved in a number of high-profile cases for a variety of parties, be it debtors, shareholders, managers, creditors or investors, with extensive knowledge of legal issues relating to insolvency, asset takeovers and divestitures. Partner <strong>Jean-Baptiste Belin<\/strong> takes care of strategic commercial pre-litigation and litigation matters, with a strong appetite for outsourcing disputes, intellectual property claims, failure of tech projects, database extractions, court-mandated expert appraisals, evidence collection and unfair competition.<span class=\"apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"normaltextrun\" style=\"font-size: 1rem\"><span lang=\"EN-GB\">This addition of skills makes <strong>Squadra Avocats<\/strong>&#8216; commercial litigation team particularly unique in the Paris Legal Market.<\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1478870","meet-the-team","type-meet-the-team","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/meet-the-team\/1478870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/meet-the-team"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/meet-the-team"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/my.legal500.com\/profiles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1478870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}