The Client’s Guide 2021
Leading firm for:

• Private Equity
• Competition / European Law
• Sport

Edition EMEA 2021
Recommended firm for:

• Private Equity
• Tax
• Employment
• EU, Competition and distribution
• Sport

French Legal Market Overview 2021

Recognized firm in:

• Private Equity
• M&A
• Banking & Finance
• Restructuring

Law Firm rankings
Recommended firm for:

• Among the top 20 in the category « Conseils LBO/CAP-DEV >200 M€ »
• Among the top 10 in the category « Conseils Prêteurs LBO »
• Among the top 10 in the category « Restructuration »

Guide 2021: Mergers & Acquisitions

• « Leading » for the operations between 150 M€ and 500 M€
• « Excellent » in Distressed M&A / Work outs

Guide 2021: Capital Investment

• « Leading » in Mid Cap LBO transactions
• « Leading » in Growth Capital
• « Excellent » for its Tax expertise in LBO
• « Highly recognized » in Management advice
• « Highly recognized » in Venture Capital
• « Highly recognized  » in Acquisition Finance

Guide 2021: Reorganization and restructuration

• « Excellent » for its Insolvency activity

Guide 2021: Litigation & arbitration

• « Excellent » in Criminal business law
• « Excellent » in Merger control
• « Excellent » for its Competition – antitrust practice
• « Highly recognized » in Distribution law and restrictive practice
• « Highly recognized » for its Commercial litigation activity
• « Highly recognized » for its Financial litigation activity
• « Highly recognized » for its Tax criminal law activity
• « Highly recognized » in Mediation

Guide 2020: Employment and Human Ressources

• « Excellent » in Employment law issues related to M&A transactions & due diligences
• « Excellent » for High risk litigation and employment criminal law activity
• « Highly recognized » for its Collective negotiations activity and labour relationship
• « Highly recognized » in Restructuring, employment reorganizations and collective litigation related thereto
• « Renowned Experts » for its activity in Expatriation

Guide 2021: Wealth management

• « Highly regarded » in Private clients / wealth management
• « Renowned Experts » in Wealth tax / litigation tax

Guide 2021: Financial and tax strategies

• « Excellent » for its Tax expertise in business operations
• « Highly recognized » for its activity in litigation tax 
• « Highly recognized  » in tax aspects of multinational groups
• « Highly recognized » in banking and finance

Guide 2021: Marketing, E-commerce & Distribution

• « Leading » for its Sport taxation activity

Guide 2020: Compliance and Fraud

• « Highly recognized » for compliance program
• « Highly recognized » in international and in-house investigation

Law firms League Tables

• LBO operations 50-300M€ (2021) ****
• M&A operations < 200 M€ (2021) ****
• Management advice in LBO (2021) **
• Reorganisations and collective dispute (2021) ***
• Debt Restructuring (2021) **
• Dispute resolution post-acquisitions (2021) **
• Penal law (2021) **
• Tax aspects relating to transactions (2021) **
• Tax litigation (2021) **
• Insolvency (2021) *