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Palmarès du Droit : le Cabinet a été élu « Cabinet Français de l’année 2022 »

TOP RANKED CHAMBERS EUROPE – France

TOP RANKED CHAMBERS GLOBAL- France

TOP RANKED LEGAL 500

Palmarès 2022 des meilleurs cabinets d’avocats – Le Point

Élaboration de ce palmarès en collaboration avec Statista. Ce palmarès est fondé sur la recommandation.

Le cabinet est primé en :

• Droit bancaire et boursier: 5*
• Droit commercial, des affaires et de la concurrence: 5*
• Droit des sociétés: 5*
• Droit fiscal: 5*
• Droit immobilier: 5*
• Fusions et acquisitions (M&A): 5*
• Private equity et venture capital: 4*

Palmarès 2021 des meilleurs cabinets d’avocats – Le Point

Élaboration de ce palmarès en collaboration avec Statista. Ce palmarès est fondé sur la recommandation.

Le cabinet est primé en :

• Droit bancaire et boursier: 5*
• Droit commercial, des affaires et de la concurrence: 5*
• Droit des sociétés: 5*
• Droit fiscal: 5*
• Droit immobilier: 5*
• Fusions et acquisitions (M&A): 5*
• Private equity et venture capital: 4*

Palmarès 2020 des meilleurs cabinets d’avocats – Le Point

Élaboration de ce palmarès en collaboration avec Statista. Ce palmarès est fondé sur la recommandation.

Le cabinet est primé en :

• Droit bancaire et boursier : 5*
• Droit commercial, des affaires et de la concurrence : 5*
• Private equity et venture capital : 4*
• Droit des sociétés : 5*
• Fusions et acquisitions (M&A) : 5*
• Droit fiscal : 5*
• Droit immobilier : 5*
• Droit public : 4*

GCR 100 – 2020 / 2022 – France – EU Competition (ELITE)

« Philippe Guibert now mans DE PARDIEU BROCAS MAFFEI’s competition practice alone since former co-head Emmanuel Durand left in January 2021 to join DWF. The firm made up for his loss by promoting former counsel Laëtitia Gavoty Tolot and Alexandre Eberhardt-Le Prévost to partner in June 2021. Counsel Sofia El Hariri and six associates round out the team, although a further five associates are often drafted in from the firm’s regulatory and litigation practices.
The team has retained an impressive client roster despite the internal shuffle – including Facebook, which it represents before France’s Competition Authority as the social media company seeks interim measures against Apple relating to allegedly anticompetitive practices in advertising markets. It is also assisting the French Press Magazines Association in its complaint against Google’s alleged abuse of dominance over neighbouring rights and in challenging the company’s alleged non-compliance with the French enforcer’s interim injunction. It is also seeking interim measures against Alstom on behalf of RATP and SNCF, which accuse the train manufacturer of abusing its dominance in the public procurement of suburban and urban trains following its acquisition of Bombardier assets. The firm also defends Volkswagen and MAN against Trucks cartel damages claims in France.
In merger control work, De Pardieu is assisting Derichebourg Group with the acquisition of GDE-Ecore, which is being reviewed by the European Commission and three national competition authorities. In another complex deal, the team acts for Soufflet in its sale to In Vivo Group, which will create the third-largest European agri-food cooperative group and requires approval from the European Commission and 11 national competition authorities. The firm also secured the EU authority’s approval for Altarea’s purchase of Primonial Group and for French insurer CNP Group’s acquisition of joint control by La Poste and CDC. Before the French authority, the firm is steering Altice Mobile through a review of the sale of its telecommunications infrastructure activities to Cellnex.  » (2022)

« Partner Philippe Guibert lead the competition practice at highly respected French full-service law firm DE PARDIEU BROCAS MAFFEI, supported by three counsel and seven associates. The team says it has acted in many high-profile and innovative merger cases. It is especially known for its behavioural work, where it represents clients in a significant number of the French authority’s major antitrust investigations. The firm represented Swiss groups Coop and Bell as second-in leniency applicants in the enforcer’s Ham Products cartel probe. In its July 2020 decision, the authority reduced the companies’ fines to €6 million under the “leniency-plus » principle. The team is also defending French oil company Groupe Rubis against a rival’s request for interim measures based on alleged abuse of dominance. The competition enforcer dismissed the request in July 2019, and the case is now before the Paris Court of Appeal. Additionally, the firm represents Société Générale in appealing against the authority’s Multilateral Interchange Fees ruling and also assisted clients in connection with separate dawn raids related to alleged gun jumping in the duty-free sector and the wine and spirits market. In follow-on litigation, the team is advising MAN and Volkswagen in a damages action related to the Trucks cartel case. On the merger control side, the firm is assisting insurer CNP Assurances in its tie-up with rivals CDC and La Banque Postale – the biggest deal in the French insurance sector in recent years. It also advised Casino on the sale of Vindémia to Groupe Bernard Hayot, which the French authority cleared in May 2020 subject to fix-it-first and behavioural remedies. Additionally, the team obtained conditional approval for Dr Oetker in its acquisition of Unilever’s French baking and dessert business Alsa, and for Global Blue and Premier Tax Free as they created a duty free and tax return joint venture in French airports. » (2021)

« Partners Philippe Guibert lead the competition practice of highly respected French full-service law firm De Pardieu Brocas Maffei, supported by three counsel and four associates. The team has acted in high-profile and innovative merger cases, as well as a range of behavioural matters. In merger control, the team acted for food producer Dr. Oetker in its acquisition of Alsa. The case involved the first decision with a fix-it-first solution, as France’s competition authority in January 2019 accepted that licensing a trademark to rival Saint Lucie would remedy its competition concerns about the Dr. Oetker/Alsa tie-up. The firm is assisting state-owned insurer CNP in its sale to La Banque Postale. In June 2019, the authority gave the go-ahead for state-owned investment firm CDC to transfer its stake in the insurance company to the banking arm of La Poste, to create a central state-owned financier and insurer. The team has also advised retail and automotive distribution group GBH on its acquisition of overseas retailer Vindemia from Casino. In behavioural work, the firm is assisting Société Générale in the interchange fees cartel before France’s Supreme Court, as well as a major dairy producer in the dairy milk products cartel. It is also acting for Booking.com in an investigation of the online travel agency and litigation before the national competition authority and courts. Also in follow-on litigation, the team is advising MAN and Volkswagen in a damages action related to the Trucks cartel case. The firm recently secured the rejection of an interim measures application against RUBIS Oil Group for alleged abuse of dominance. » (2020)

GCR 100 – 2016/2019 & GCR 2015 – France – EU Competition (Highly Recommended)

GCR 100 – 2014 / 2015 – EU Competition (Recommended)

En 2022:

• Le Cabinet a été élu « Law Firm of the Year 2023 – France » en:
  • Immobilier
  • Restructuring
    
• 35 avocats référencés en tant que “Best Lawyers” :
  • 31 associés : Katia Belhiteche, Alexandre Blestel, Sébastien Boullier de Branche, Thomas Bréart de Boisanger, Nicolas Bricaire, Etienne Boursican, Jean-Renaud Cazali, Cédric Chanas, Emmanuel Chauve, Corentin Coatalem, Ségolène Coiffet, Philippe Dubois, Alexandre Eberhardt, Emmanuel Fatôme, Nicolas Favre, Christophe Gaillard, Laëtitia Gavoty-Tolot, Pierre Gebarowski, Philippe Guibert, Joanna Gumpelson, Patrick Jaïs, Christine Le Bihan-Graf, Yannick Le Gall, Dominique Lefort, Barbara Levy, Magali Masson, Antoine Payen, Jean-François Pourdieu, Philippe Rozec, Paul Talbourdet, Guillaume Touttée.
  • 3 counsels : Sandra Benhaïm, Sofia El Hariri, Simon Le Wita
    
  • 1 avocat honoraire : Thierry Brocas
• 14 avocats référencés en tant que “Ones to Watch”, nouvelle catégorie qui, sur recommandations des pairs, distingue les jeunes avocats :
  
  • Florian Aïn, Arthur Bosc, Raphaëlle de Gabrielli, Barbara Epstein, Marie-Caroline Fauchille (Associée), Chimène Faurant, Eloïse Koudou, Vincent Langenbach, Clément Maillot-Bouvier (counsel), Benoît Menez, Enguerrand Maloisel, Marie-Claire Santonastasi, Rodrigue Tchouale, Alison Vogt

En 2021:

• Le Cabinet a été élu « Law Firm of the Year 2022 – France » en Immobilier
  
• 32 avocats référencés en tant que “Best Lawyers” :
  • 27 associés : Katia Belhiteche, Alexandre Blestel, Sébastien Boullier de Branche, Thomas Bréart de Boisanger, Jean-Renaud Cazali, Cédric Chanas, Emmanuel Chauve, Corentin Coatalem, Ségolène Coiffet, Philippe Dubois, Emmanuel Fatôme, Nicolas Favre, Christophe Gaillard, Laëtitia Gavoty-Tolot, Pierre Gebarowski, Philippe Guibert, Joanna Gumpelson, Olivier Hubert, Patrick Jaïs, Christine Le Bihan-Graf, Yannick Le Gall, Dominique Lefort, Barbara Levy, Jean-François Pourdieu, Philippe Rozec, Paul Talbourdet, Guillaume Touttée.
  • 1 avocat honoraire : Thierry Brocas
  • 4 counsels : Sandra Benhaïm, Nicolas Bricaire, Sofia El Hariri, Simon Le Wita
    
• 17 avocats référencés en tant que “Ones to Watch”, nouvelle catégorie qui, sur recommandations des pairs, distingue les jeunes avocats :
  
  • Florian Aïn, Arthur Bosc, Anne-Charlotte d’Hotelans, Raphaëlle de Gabrielli, Barbara Epstein, Marie-Caroline Fauchille (counsel), Chimène Faurant, Eloïse Koudou, Vincent Langenbach, Diane Le Chevallier (counsel), Clément Maillot-Bouvier (counsel), Enguerrand Maloisel, Priscillia Negre, Antoine Payen (associé), Marie-Claire Santonastasi, Rodrigue Tchouale, Alison Vogt

En 2020:

• 2 associés élus “Lawyer of the Year 2021 – France” :
  • Christine Le Bihan-Graf, élue en Énergie
  • Corentin Coatalem, élu en Dérivés

• 34 avocats de De Pardieu Brocas Maffei sont référencés, dont 8 associés et counsels qui font leur entrée dans ce classement :
  • 29 associés (sur 33) : Katia Belhiteche, Alexandre Blestel, Sébastien Boullier de Branche, Thomas Bréart de Boisanger, Thierry Brocas, Jean-Renaud Cazali, Cédric Chanas, Emmanuel Chauve, Corentin Coatalem, Ségolène Coiffet, Philippe Dubois, Emmanuel Fatôme, Nicolas Favre, Christophe Gaillard, Pierre Gebarowski, Philippe Guibert, Joanna Gumpelson, Olivier Hubert, Patrick Jaïs, Christine Le Bihan-Graf, Yannick Le Gall, Dominique Lefort, Barbara Levy, Jean-François Pourdieu, Philippe Rozec, Paul Talbourdet, Guillaume Touttée et Delphine Vidalenc.
  • 5 counsels : Sandra Benhaïm, Nicolas Bricaire, Sofia El Hariri, Laëtitia Gavoty-Tolot, Simon Le Wita

En 2019, lors de la 10ème édition des classements Best Lawyers® France, en partenariat avec Les Echos, le Cabinet a été élu :

• « Best Law Firm of the Year 2020 – France » en Droit Bancaire et Financier
• « Best Law Firm of the Year 2020 – France » en Droit Immobilier

• Emmanuel Fatôme, avocat associé, a été désigné « Lawyer of the Year 2020 France″ en Investment – Il avait été élu également « Lawyer of the Year France″ en Investment en 2018, en Finance en 2016 et Immobilier en 2011.

• et 30 avocats de De Pardieu Brocas Maffei sont référencés, dont 8 associés et counsels qui font leur entrée dans ce classement :
  • 26 associés (sur 33) : Katia Belhiteche, Alexandre Blestel, Thomas Bréart de Boisanger, Thierry Brocas, Jean-Renaud Cazali, Cédric Chanas, Emmanuel Chauve, Corentin Coatalem, Ségolène Coiffet, Philippe Dubois, Emmanuel Fatôme, Nicolas Favre, Christophe Gaillard, Pierre Gebarowski, Philippe Guibert, Joanna Gumpelson, Olivier Hubert, Patrick Jaïs, Christine Le Bihan-Graf, Yannick Le Gall, Dominique Lefort, Barbara Levy, Jean-François Pourdieu, Philippe Rozec, Paul Talbourdet, Guillaume Touttée.
  • 2 counsels : Laëtitia Gavoty, Simon Le Wita
    

En 2018, lors de la 9^ème édition des classements Best Lawyers^® France, en partenariat avec Les Echos :

•  le cabinet a été élu « Best Law Firm of the Year 2019 – France » en Droit bancaire

• Paul Talbourdet, avocat associé, responsable de l’équipe Opérations immobilières et Financements immobiliers et co-responsable de l’équipe Contentieux, a été désigné « Lawyer of the Year 2019 France″ en Real Estate Law.

et 24 associés du cabinet De Pardieu Brocas Maffei ont été distingués en tant « Best Lawyers » :

• Alexandre Blestel – Tax Law
• Thomas Bréart de Boisanger – Corporate Law
• Thierry Brocas – Corporate Law et Mergers and Acquisitions
• Jean-Renaud Cazali  – Banking et Project Finance and Development
• Cédric Chanas – Corporate Law
• Emmanuel Chauve – Tax Law et Real Estate Law
• Corentin Coatalem – Banking Law et Structured Finance Law
• Ségolène Coiffet – Insolvency and reorganization Law 
• Philippe Dubois – Litigation et Insolvency and Reorganization Law
• Emmanuel Fatôme – Banking Law, Investment et Real Estate Law
• Nicolas Favre – Corporate Law et Mergers and Acquisitions
• Christophe Gaillard  – Banking Law et Structured Finance Law
• Pierre Gebarowski – Banking Law et Real Estate Law
• Philippe Guibert  – Competiton / Antitrust Law and European Union Law
• Joanna Gumpelson – Insolvency and Reorganization Law et Litigation
• Patrick Jaïs – Capital Markets Law, Corporate Law et Mergers and Acquisitions
• Christine Le Bihan-Graf – Energy Law et Public Law
• Yannick Le Gall – Real Estate Law et Banking Law
• Dominique Lefort – Criminal Defense, Banking Law et Litigation
• Barbara Levy – Intellectual Property Law
• Jean-François Pourdieu – Private Equity Law et Corporate Law
• Philippe Rozec – Labor and Employment Law 
• Paul Talbourdet – Banking Law, Investment, Litigation et Real Estate Law
• Guillaume Touttée – Corporate Law et Private Equity Law

En 2017, lors de la 8^ème édition des classements Best Lawyers France, en partenariat avec Les Echos :

• le Cabinet a été élu « Law Firm of the Year France 2018 » dans 2 expertises : Insolvency and Reorganization Law et Real Estate Law
  

• Emmanuel Fatôme, avocat associé, a été désigné « Lawyer of the Year 2018″ en Real Estate (déjà élu en 2011 et 2016) ainsi qu’en Investment – Il avait été élu également « Lawyer of the Year 2016 » en Finance en 2015.

En 2016, Joanna Gumpelson a été désignée « Lawyer of the Year 2017 » en Insolvency et Reorganization Law

NB : Les classements Best Lawyers sont fondés sur la désignation et l’évaluation des avocats d’affaires par leurs pairs. Best Lawyers est le plus ancien guide juridique qui émet l’un des classements les plus respectés sur le marché américain.

De Pardieu Brocas Maffei is an independent French firm active across all financial and corporate areas with a particular strength in banking and restructuring and insolvency work. In the banking area the firm is primarily mandated by lenders on acquisition finance, syndicated loans, LBOs, real estate finance and refinancing work. It also advises foreign banks, investment funds, fund managers, fintech companies, insurance companies and payment services on financial services regulatory matters. During the research period the domestic firm advised acquirers and sellers on agribusiness, real estate, energy, technology and financial services M&A deals. It is also generally active in the private equity area representing financial investors on the sell or buy side in equity or mezzanine investments. In recent capital markets work the firm worked for issuers, arranges and dealers on debt issuance, derivatives, structured finance and securitisation deals. The firm also advised sponsors, lenders and borrowers on project finance work in the energy and infrastructure sectors. Representing creditors, lenders and debtors on debt restructuring matters is one of the firm’s strengths. It advised clients including Goldman Sachs, Renault, Tikehau and Toys “R” Us on large cases recently. (2019)

De Pardieu Brocas Maffei is a domestic firm with particularly strong banking and finance and restructuring and insolvency practices. (2017)

De Pardieu Brocas Maffei is recognised specifically for its banking and finance and restructuring and insolvency practices.(2016)

2015 marked the retirement of founder Antoine Maffei, who alongside Charles-Henri De Pardieu will hold the title of honorary lawyer at De Pardieu Brocas Maffei. Only Thierry Brocas remains active of the three founding partners. Another long standing partner of the firm, Jacques Henrot, sadly passed away in September 2014. Initially brought in to create the real estate department in 1995, Henrot remained active as head of the restructuring and insolvency practise until his passing. Other movement saw Eric Muller join the firm from White & Case to sure up the corporate team. (2015)

Classé en 2012 par Mergermarket pour la France en M&A 4ème en Volume.