Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton represents an impressive client base of leading digital platforms and TMT companies, laboratories and many large industrial groups who turn to the practice for their most challenging cases. It is the go-to-team for disputes pertaining to the market’s largest public and private M&A deals, while the practice’s commercial litigation caseload is also impressive. The firm is notably handling high-stakes proceedings for the likes of Canal+, Vivendi and Google. It also acts in major antitrust follow on and regulatory-related proceedings. The practice is co-headed by Jean-Yves Garaud and Delphine Michot, who are top names in France, and Aude Dupuis. They are supported by Elise Goebel.
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- ‘Excellence and responsiveness in handling complex or large-scale cases.'
Key clients
- Vivendi
- Valeo
- The French State
- Canal + Group
- Garuda Indonesia
- Bpifrance Participations
- Novasep and Henogen
- ArcelorMittal
- Veolia
- Engie SA
- Tractebel Engineering
Work highlights
Representing Vivendi in connection with activist shareholder CIAM’s claims in the context of the Vivendi spin-off.
Represented Valeo in achieving a decisive victory in the High Court in a claim for damages for breach of competition law.
Representing Google in a case initiated by the Syndicat des éditeurs de la presse magazine (SEPM) regarding a test conducted by Google, in which the company decided to withhold news content from 1% of its European users to assess the impact of this content on traffic to its platform.
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Practice head
Jean-Yves Garaud; Delphine Michot; Aude Dupuis
Other key lawyers
Elise Goebel