Bersay

The firm
Founded in 1995, Bersay brings together around 50 highly qualified lawyers, offering strateging expertise in the main areas of business life in contentious an non-contentious matters, for a wide variety of private and public entities and investment funds in an international and national context.

QUALITY AT THE HEART OF OUR APPROACH
As the first parisian law firm to be ISO 9001 certified, bersay builds and adapts its internal procedures to respond the needs of its clients. The firm's constant goal is to achieve excellence.

REGULARLY RECOGNIZED
In each Bersay's practice areas, our attorneys are regularly recognized in leading French and International rankings.

A MULTI-SPECIALIST LAW FIRM
Bersay brings together around fifty lawyers offering deep specialized experience and expertise in the main areas of business life. Our lawyers began, their careers within the firm or joined us after practicing in prestigious French or International structures.

Areas of practice: The firm handles international deals as well as French deals, and is particularly active in:

• Corporate law/capital markets: Mergers and acquisitions, private equity, issuance of mixed securities, (for listed and unlisted companies), IPO, bankruptcy and restructuring.
• Banking/finance: Regulatory advice and representation before financial regulatory agencies, advice on financing for acquisitions, bridge loans, recapitalization, and other corporate purposes.
• Fund structuring: Structuring of French and Luxembourg private equity, real estate, infrastructure and debt funds, co-investment funds, funds of funds and dedicated funds. Incorporation and approval of portfolio management companies and investment companies, as well as any issues relating to their operating conditions (interest scheme, co-investment arrangements and the distribution in France of their investment funds or structured products).
• Tax: International and domestic acquisitions, private equity, reorganisation, joint ventures.
• Litigation/Arbitration: Corporate, securities, competition and distribution, real estate and construction, white-collar crime, international and domestic arbitration.
• Labour and employment: Collective, individual, white-collar crime.
• IP/IT/telecoms/media/entertainment/data protection: Intellectual property (trademarks, patents, copyright, designs infringement (counterfeiting/passing-off)/unfair trading), information technology, internet, data protection, cybercrime, telecommunications, media, sports law.
• Fintech: blocktchain, compliance, payment services, crowdfunding.
• Real estate/construction/environment: Transaction, commercial leases, construction, development, urbanism, environment.
• Competition and antitrust: French and European competition law (merger control, restrictions of competition, cartels, abuses of a dominant position), distribution, including franchise, commercial contracts, R&D and cooperation agreements, technology transfer agreements, licensing agreements, regulatory law, advertising.
• Public and administrative law: Government contracts (public tenders), outsourcing of public services, public-private partnerships.
• Industrial risks:  Risk prevention; assistance to project managers, management of indusrtial diasters; managment of serial body injury claims, liability for defective products.
• Insurance: risk mapping; assistance for the realisation of industrial projects; damage insurance's management; liabiliry insurance's mnagement; disasters' management.
• Energy Law: management of authorizations, construction and exploitation of energy production units; Corporate Power Purchase Agreement (CCPA)
• Life Sciences, R&D and Pharma: advice and litigation, in regulatory matters and in the context of the negotiation and management of contracts, research and development contracts, partnerships and consortiums, or in the design and implementation of their industrial projects.

INTERNATIONAL APPROACH
Sinc its creation, bersay has had the goal of serving its clients abroad as well as in France. International work is a very significant part of the firm's activity. All our lawyers  work in French and in English and most of them work in at least a third language (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Japanese, Hebrew).