Cohen & Gresser LLP

Founded in 2002, Cohen & Gresser is an international law firm with offices in New York, Paris, Washington, D.C., and London. The firm has an outstanding record of success in high-stakes and high-profile litigation, investigation, and transactional work throughout the world. Its clients include major international financial institutions and Fortune 500 companies across a broad spectrum of industries.

Cohen & Gresser’s Paris office, opened in 2014, provides and coordinates legal services throughout Europe for its clients, with a particular focus on M&A and corporate transactions, regulatory compliance, white-collar defense, commercial, employment and labor, tax, telecommunications, media and technology, and intellectual property.

Clients include household names across a broad spectrum of industries, including consumer products, luxury, financial services, fashion and cosmetics, energy, entertainment, insurance, technology, biotechnology, healthcare, life sciences, automotive and transportation, travel, telecommunications, e-commerce, retail, advertising and print media industries.

The firm’s approach is to develop a deep understanding of each client’s business and to leverage the combined experience of the legal professionals in all offices to provide superior service to European and international clients conducting business in Europe.

Main areas of practice
Corporate: C&G assists clients in a wide range of corporate matters, including mergers and acquisitions, private equity and venture capital financing, fund formation, corporate governance, and securities law compliance. Paris attorneys represent public companies, early-stage and late-stage private companies, venture capital and private equity funds, hedge funds, and investment banks. The Paris team has extensive experience advising investors, listed companies and their managers on financial markets transactions, public mergers and acquisitions, tender offers, IPOs, the issuance of securities, private placements, corporate governance, and financial communications.

Employment: Attorneys in C&G’s French employment practice have significant experience in counseling French and international clients, employers, and top managers/executives, as well as representing them in litigation relating to various employment and labor-related issues such as individual and collective employment relations, corporate restructuring, top management, and social security.

Litigation and arbitration: Cohen & Gresser regularly represent clients in a broad range of complex commercial, business, and financial disputes in France and in the international arena. The team has particular experience with M&A litigation, shareholders’ disputes, and breach of contract disputes, as well as with matters relating to litigation before the French financial market authority (AMF), including insider trading, market manipulation, fraud, and misinformation. The Paris office works with litigators across the other C&G offices to provide seamless representation to its clients across multiple jurisdictions.

Regulatory compliance: C&G provides comprehensive compliance advice to its global clients, including public and private companies, and financial institutions. Members of its team include very experienced former US federal and state prosecutors, former French and UK prosecutors, and defense counsel. We design and implement effective compliance policies and procedures, minimizing the risk of a government investigation or prosecution. Its attorneys advise on compliance with all aspects of antitrust, corporate governance, employment, privacy and cybersecurity, securities, tax, and trade regulations, and have extensive experience counseling on matters requiring cooperation with international regulators.

Tax: C&G’s tax practice serves a wide and diversified client base, ranging from individuals to multinational corporations. The team has extensive experience with corporate tax, private client tax issues, tax litigation, and real estate tax restructuring.

Technology: The Paris office has experience in a wide range of technology, media, and telecoms matters, as well as privacy and data protection. The team has substantial experience with technology transactions, including outsourcing agreements, cloud computing, infrastructure agreements, software/technology licensing, software implementation, and distribution and partnership agreements. They also represent clients in matters related to internet and e-commerce, such as adtech, digital rights management, fintech, e-payments, big data, cyber security, and gaming. The firm also handles telecoms matters, including regulatory compliance and agreements dealing with infrastructure and data centers, telecoms networks and services, and satellite telecoms distribution.

White-collar defence and regulation: C&G regularly represents clients in a wide variety of investigations, including market manipulation, securities fraud, insider trading, corruption/bribery, money laundering, OFAC, and FCPA investigations. Members of its cross-border team advise on major corporate internal investigations and handle proceedings before and in cooperation with a number of global regulatory bodies, including the French financial market authority (AMF), Banking Authority (ACPR), and financial prosecutor (PNF); as well as the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Serious Fraud Office (SFO) in the UK; and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and the Department of Justice (DOJ) in the US.