Industry Sectors

The energy sector is undergoing major changes. Faced with climate change, consumers, businesses and financiers have to change their behavior and set themselves new targets.

Drawing on the expertise of several partners and associates specializing in the energy sector and its challenges, De Pardieu offers a multidisciplinary approach to a wide range of legal issues combining several skills (Corporate – M&A, project finance, commercial law, energy law, public law, environmental law) to offer its clients a full range of legal services.

The Firm routinely advises major electricity industry groups, lenders, investment funds, manufacturers and developers in the renewable energy and infrastructure sectors (photovoltaic, wind, biomass and geothermal projects, electricity transmission and distribution, etc.). The Firm also intervenes in the gas sector, advising infrastructure operators and market players. It also has a recognized expertise in nuclear energy and mining and oil resources.

De Pardieu is recognized as one of the market leaders in real estate law. Relying on our widely recognized experience and in a real estate landscape constantly evolving, we are able to offer our clients solutions tailored to the issues they are facing while anticipating future needs and challenges.

Our teams specialize in real estate transactions, real estate finance, real estate tax and urban planning law and are experienced in advising a wide range of market players, including property companies, investment funds, insurance companies, developers, users and credit institutions.

We also advise lenders and borrowers on the financing of real estate transactions.

Our significant expertise covers all aspects of urban planning and development law addressing both regulatory and contractual issues.

We regularly collaborate with other top-tier practices within our Firm, including corporate and public law, to bring our clients the best specialized knowledge and experience that is relevant to their transactions.

De Pardieu has an in-depth knowledge of the food processing industry and its market players, both in France and abroad. Our teams of specialist lawyers are able to address a wide range of issues upstream (production) and downstream (processing, storage, transport, distribution, etc.) of the sector.

We advise a wide range of market players from both the agricultural and food processing sectors (farmers, food processing companies, distributors and retailers, authorities and related bodies, end-consumers).

Our practice covers wide range of issues, including competition law and State aids, consumer law (consumer information, product conformity, etc.), food and health safety, town planning and taxation, rural law, agricultural cooperatives, lobbying, tax structuring, producer/distributor disputes, inheritance law, European cooperatives and, more generally all areas of business law.

De Pardieu has extensive expertise in trade practices. Our teams of lawyers act on behalf of products and services suppliers, as well as retailers, assisting them in the drawing-up of their general terms and conditions of sale, price lists, commercial cooperation agreements and/or general terms and conditions of purchase.   

We advise and defend our clients in all aspects of their trade activities, in both advisory and litigation matters, before the relevant authorities and courts (DGCCRF, DREETR, DDPP, criminal courts, commercial courts, etc.), in the context of regulated activities in the fields of distribution, restrictive, unfair or misleading trade practices, advertising and prohibited trade practices, product conformity and safety, regulation and lobbying. 

De Pardieu has extensive expertise in real estate law, construction law, mergers & acquisitions and tax law and is able to provide innovative solutions to a wide range of issues in the hospitality and leisure sector.  

Our teams assist clients in mergers and acquisitions projects, hotel management, franchise agreements, leases, asset management, financing, construction, planning and development, structuring and restructuring in France and across the globe.  

We work in close cooperation with the firm’s various teams to draw on the techniques of a variety of disciplines and to offer market-leading advice to our clients covering all aspects of a transaction. We call on a network of “best friends” firms across the globe to provide wide-ranging expertise specific to each jurisdiction.

Thanks to its multidisciplinary approach, De Pardieu has a perfect understanding of the industry sector and its high stakes. Our lawyers are routinely involved in large-scale transactions acing for French and international market players across a wide range of industries (food processing industry, energy, telecoms, infrastructure, luxury goods, spirits drinks, textiles, chemicals and petrochemicals, etc.).  

We are committed to providing comprehensive expertise and we advise our clients on their growth objectives, investment strategies, setting-up of partnerships, competition law and intellectual property law and labor law requirements. 

De Pardieu’s highly experienced lawyers advise sponsors, investment funds, financial establishments and other financial institutions on infrastructure and public facilities projects in France and across the globe.  

We are involved in infrastructure projects in the renewable energies sector, production facilities in a wide range of sectors (chemicals, petrochemicals, pharmaceuticals, etc.), data center development, shipbuilding, aeronautics and aerospace. We also assist our clients in the fields of transport (parking, motorways and rail networks), public utilities (water, waste) and telecommunications networks.   

Our teams work in close cooperation to offer comprehensive expertise at every stage of infrastructure project implementation (auditing, structuring, design-build, financing and refinancing, operation and disposal). 

De Pardieu has extensive expertise in the media sector. We advise major private and public sector companies, start-ups and numerous investors (venture capital funds and companies, investment companies, sovereign wealth funds) on all their growth transactions (seed capital, IPO, investment strategies, etc.), and to cover their specific legal issues (competition law, copyright, intellectual property, etc.).   

Our teams’ practice covers advisory and litigation matters acting on behalf of public and private-sector market players, at the cutting-edge of audiovisual regulation evolution in France. 

Relying on teams specializing in Debt-Finance, Financing, M&A and Securities Law, De Pardieu has recognized experience in the financial services sector. We advise credit institutions, finance companies, debt funds and all other financial institutions on their transactions in France and abroad.   

Our teams have deep experience advising on a full range of finance transactions, including acquisitions, LBO, corporate and debt restructuring, and asset financing.  We are highly experienced in structuring, documenting and negotiating all types of financing. 

De Pardieu advises a wide range of market players in the telecoms sector (large private or public companies, unicorn companies, start-ups…) in France and abroad. Our teams are highly experienced in  responding to the full range of issues encountered by our clients in economic public law, regulated activities, competition law, as well as financing and mergers & acquisitions.   

We also advise financial institutions, equipment manufacturers and government authorities on regulatory, litigation and arbitration issues.