Joffe & Associés stands out for its strong expertise in the transport (particularly rail and aviation), energy and telecoms sectors, acting for prominent private and state-owned companies, as well as local authorities. The team’s practice takes in advice on public procurement, concession and PPP contracts, public construction and planning issues, and high-profile administrative litigation. Practice head Mathieu Gaudemet is equally adept at handling contentious and advisory matters in the public sphere.
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Testimonials
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- 'Very good team - agile and high-performing. The firm is able to deal with day-to-day issues but also technical and specialist matters and medium-sized cases.'
- 'Mathieu Gaudemet is a specialist in his area. He is the Swiss army knife of public law.'
Key clients
- DALKIA
- ORANGE SA
- GESPACE
- KEOLIS SA
- AEROPORTS DE PARIS
- METROPOLE ROUENNORMANDIE
- CAPGEMINI
- TICE
- AGENCE NATIONALE DE LA RECHERCHE
- HUB ONE
Work highlights
Advising Hub One, the new technologies subsidiary of Aéroports de Paris, on the award of a major concession contract, scheduled to run for a dozen years, for the deployment of a high-speed fibre network on the site of the Rungis National Interest Market.
Assisting Gespace, a subsidiary of Dalkia, in the ongoing litigation launched by the Ile de France Region in an attempt to recover compensation for the loss it believes it suffered as a result of anti-competitive practices in the award of public contracts in the mid-90s.
Advising SNCF SA on streamlining its corporate organization, after years of assisting the SNCF Group with operational issues, notably the opening up of rail lines to competition.
Lawyers
Practice head
Mathieu Gaudemet
Other key lawyers
Marie-Alix Mallet