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Diane Lamarche & Simon Martin-Gousset
White & Case LLP’s wide-ranging practice allows the team to advise on data protection and cybersecurity issues, as well as generative AI matters and contractual arrangements. The team’s well-established client base includes multinational corporations, private equity companies and banks across the software, transport and pharmaceuticals industries. The team is co-headed by experienced partners Bertrand Liard, who regularly represents both domestic and international clients on data and IP issues, and Clara Hainsdorf, who focuses on technology licences and commercial contracts.
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Testimonials
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- ‘We have collaborated for many years with the IP/IT and privacy team at White & Case. Bertrand Liard and Clara Hainsdorf perfectly meet our needs on both national and transnational matters, where the W&C network is a major asset given its expertise.'
- ‘The team is excellent and dynamic. They are very easy and pleasant to work with. They know our group extremely well and can even work independently with our operational staff on certain projects. We have complete confidence in them and their commitment to us.’
- ‘Bertrand Liard is excellent, available at any time and for any emergency - which is why this is our reference firm in the group.’
- ‘White & Case, and especially Clara Hainsdorf, show particular attention to client relations and to providing added value through their advice without seeking to sell what their client does not need.’
- ‘Clara Hainsdorf has a keen understanding of the regulations and her advice is precise.’
Key clients
- Amazon
- BPCE – Natixis
- Battery Ventures
- Carmignac
- Crédit Agricole Group
- CACEIS
- CAPS
- Crédit Agricole Pacifica
- Compagnie de Saint-Gobain
- Saint-Gobain Group
- Free Mobile
- Foncia
Practice head
Bertrand Liard; Clara Hainsdorf