DS Avocats

Founded in Paris 50 years ago, DS Avocats is one of the leading independent law firms in France with a global presence on four Continents.

Since the 1980’s, DS Avocats operates on the Asian continent (China, Singapore, Vietnam) where it facilitates the expansion of European companies into the Asian market.

Since then, the firm has intensified its international development: currently, DS also has offices in Germany, Belgium, Spain and Italy; in Africa (Morocco, Senegal); and in the Americas (Canada, Argentina, Chile, Peru).

Today, around 400 lawyers provide their global clients with in-depth expertise in both public and private business laws. DS’s clients consider this dual expertise a major asset as it enables DS’s legal professionals to bring unique perspectives to best serve their clients’ interests worldwide.

The firm’s areas of practice are: public business law; urban development and planning strategies; real estate law; environmental law and sustainable development; contract and commercial litigation; commercial, competition, distribution and consumer law; intellectual property and innovation law; computer and digital law; data protection; corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and financing; restructuring; tax law; labour law; banking and finance; as well as energy law, health law, customs and international trade and insurance and industrial risks.