
- Profile
Accolades
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
‘They have experience that is difficult to match in France. Top-level service, commitment, excellent service.'
‘John Brinitzer and Marie-Laurence Tibi both combine excellent technical skills and exceptional view on matters.’
‘The team is one of the most recognised.'
‘Marie-Laurence Tibi stands out for her high listening skills, fine understanding of issues and subjects, relational intelligence, perfect mastery of her legal field and her extraordinary analytical capacity, which make her a very valuable and rare lawyer on the market'
‘Quality and precision, great workforce and ability to work under very demanding timing constraints. High-level knowledge and a very useful ability to engage in a dialogue with regulatory bodies (the AMF in particular).'
Key clients
- Planisware
- Coty
- Vivendi
- Canal+
- Alstom
- Solvay
- The French State
- MAIF
- Attestor
- Citi
Work highlights
- Advised Planisware in its €300m initial public offering comprising a sale of shares by existing shareholders in a private placement to institutional investors and a listing on Euronext Paris.
- Advised MAIF in the financial restructuring of Orpea, including the innovative rights issues and reserved capital increase with priority right implemented in connection with such restructuring.
- Advised the underwriters in a $300 million registered global offering and new Euronext Paris listing by NYSE-listed Coty Inc. (Coty).
Lawyers
Hall of fame
The lawyers at the very top of the profession, widely known and respected by peers and clients for their longstanding involvement in market-leading work.
Practice head
John Brinitzer; Marie-Laurence Tibi
Other key lawyers
Andrew Bernstein; Jean-Yves Chabert; Frédéric Martin