Boutique employment and labour firm CHASSANY WATRELOT & ASSOCIES offers expertise across legal advisory services, litigation, auditing and training. The firm is highly regarded for its work in collective labour relations, business transformation and reorganisations, mergers and acquisitions, compensation and benefits, health and safety, social security, pensions and international mobility. Jérôme Watrelot and Elisabeth Graujeman lead the team, both holding experience in advising domestic and international companies, major industrial groups and law firms.
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Testimonials
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- ‘CWA's teams demonstrate extensive expertise in employment law, both collective and individual. They stand out from most of their competitors through their ability to understand their clients' issues and expectations, and through their commitment to providing positive and innovative answers to their questions.’
- ‘Jérôme Watrelot is one of the most experienced lawyers in the Paris labour law market, particularly in supporting restructurings. He knows how to propose solutions that allow objectives to be achieved while avoiding undue legal risks. Elisabeth Graujeman has an extremely broad spectrum of expertise, ranging from labour law to social security law, in both collective and individual cases. She combines a very high level of understanding of people and situations with an exceptional capacity for work.’
- ‘CWA maintains its position as an expert in employment law. The quality of its advice and analysis remains consistently high. Its additional support offerings, such as webinars and newsletters, are a real asset.’
- ‘In my opinion, CWA's consulting team is the most robust on the market today. Their availability is unparalleled. They offer innovative and reassuring advice, driven by a strong service ethic and a pragmatic, results-oriented approach.'
- ‘The opinions and documents, even on complex subjects, are always of excellent quality. They provide good support for training our teams. The team is at the forefront of case law.’
Key clients
- CIC (Crédit Industriel et Commercial)
- CARREFOUR GROUP
- SOITEC
- THALES
- SECURITAS
- PAI PARTNERS
- TRANSDEV
- SEITA (IMPERIAL BRANDS)
- SHISEIDO
- EUTELSAT
Work highlights
Represented Carrefour in a huge wave of emergency proceedings, around 20 lawsuits, initiated by the CFDT union in the first half of 2025 to block the transfer of Carrefour stores to lease management.
Assisted Transdev in its negotiations with SNCF on the social and financial consequences of transferring the employment contracts of workers assigned to the Marseille-Nice TER.
Assisted CORA with the closure of its historic headquarters in Croissy Beaubourg and the implementation of the resulting collective redundancy plan, with 336 job being cut.
Lawyers
Social security: compensation and benefits
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Practice head
Philippe Chassany; Jérôme Watrelot; Elisabeth Graujeman
Other key lawyers
Arnaud Saint Raymond; Hélène Guillot; Benoît Dubessay; Virgile Zeimet; Aude Lamberton; Francois Livernet d’Angelis; Sébastien Belbis