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Agnès de l'Estoile-Campi
Agnès de l'Estoile-Campi
She is a partner within the International Taxation team. She mainly works for French multinational groups, assisting them with their international projects (taxation of international groups, transfer pricing and international employee mobility). She assists the firm’s clients in their projects in Brazil and in the Latin American region and more generally in emerging markets. For those countries, she is generally required to play the role of “project manager” by selecting the local lawyers, identifying the main cross-border and local challenges, coordinating the activities of the local lawyers, identifying possible solutions that are compatible with French fiscal constraints. She is the day-to-day advisor for several listed international groups in the defence and communications sectors and for ETI, which she advises on their international expansion. She also works on asset taxation in certain areas such as taxation of trusts in France, and specifically works on Franco-Swiss and Franco-Brazilian matters. Agnès was appointed French Foreign Trade Advisor (CCE) in 2013. She is the head of the CCE’s Brazil Taxation working group and has just been appointed Vice-President of the International Taxation Experts panel. She is also President of the Franco-Brazilian Association Arca do Saber which welcomes young people living in the oldest “favela” in Sao Paolo.
Agnieszka Starzyńska
Agnieszka Starzyńska
Counsel, Antitrust, Competition and Trade Department in Poland, Counsel, Head of the Life Sciences and Healthcare Practice in Poland
Alain Herrmann
Alain Herrmann
He is mainly involved in national and international restructuring of companies, job preservation plans, collective negotiations and international mobility. In this context, he also regularly assists clients during social security audits and labour inspection audits.
Alexander Rakosi
Alexander Rakosi
Alexander Rakosi is a partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz and a member of the corporate transactions team in Vienna. He is a leading expert for corporate law/M&A as well as private equity and insolvency & restructuring. Alexander Rakosi advises leading corporations, investment funds and financial institutions in the areas of M&A, private equity and restructuring in both domestic and international projects. After his law studies in Vienna and at the University of Michigan Law School (LLM), Alexander Rakosi worked for several years at Sullivan & Cromwell in New York in the areas of M&A, private equity and corporate finance. Alexander Rakosi is also admitted to the bar in England/Wales and New York.
Alexandre Bordenave
Alexandre Bordenave
Alexandre advises financial institutions and their clients in the implementation and negotiation of securitisation and structured finance transactions. Alexandre is very keen on practising law thoroughly and innovatively. His broad and in-depth experience (securitisation, LBO/OBO, trusts, ABL financing, real-estate financing, etc.) significantly enhances his advice. Alexandre pays special attention to smooth communication between parties and ensures that all the requirements and expectations of the parties, especially those of his clients, are well understood. Alexandre joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2009
Alexandre Bastos
Alexandre Bastos
Head of Insolvency & Restructuring team. Alexandre Bastos is a partner responsible for the Insolvency-Restructuring Department at CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats. His background in both law and finance is a valuable asset that enables him to embrace all aspects of the cases entrusted to him.  
Alexandre Delhaye
Alexandre Delhaye
He is a partner at CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre's Corporate/M&A department. He specialises in corporate law, M&A and stock exchange law, he handles all aspects of mergers & acquisitions and restructurings for both listed and unlisted companies and, more specifically, the drafting of documentation and contracts, support in negotiations, acquisitions, divestments, joint-ventures, shareholders’ agreements, restructurings (mergers, asset transfers, etc.) both in France and internationally, arranging and structuring finance (equity, MBOs, MBIs), investment capital, legal audits, data room and due diligence, IPOs, stock exchange law.
Aline Divo
Aline Divo
She is a partner in the Real Estate Legal Department. She works in real estate law and in particular in the following areas: commercial leases, hotel leases, off-plan leases, building leases, business leases, transfers of lease rights, sales of operating assets, property sales, property development contracts, delegated project management contracts. She provides advice, drafts legal documents and acts in disputes.She has been advising both French and international clients for nearly 20 years. For 5 years, she has been a lecturer on the “Property Law” Master's degree course at the University of Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne and in the Paris Bar School, teaching commercial leases. She is part of the editorial team of Francis Lefebvre's Commercial Leases and Property Management Handbook. She was a member of the Hauts-de-Seine departmental Bar Council from 2013 to 2015. For several years she has been listed in the Chambers Europe rankings.
Álvaro Yáñez
Álvaro Yáñez
Álvaro is a Partner of the firm and co-leads the Energy & Climate Change team. He is a Doctor of Law from the Universidad Colegio Mayor de Nuestra Señora del Rosario. Álvaro began his career as a civil judge in Cúcuta (Colombia) and later moved to Bogotá where he opened his independent law firm. He has advised various national and foreign companies, including Financial Institutions, Oil & Gas Companies, Industrial and Commercial Corporations. On multiple occasions he has been appointed to represent the interests in dispute as legal representative of various companies in the energy sector. In addition, he is a former member of the board of directors of the Franco Colombian Bank, the Colombian-French Chamber of Commerce, and was a founding member of the Colombian-Chilean Chamber of Commerce. He has also been a professor of commercial law at the Universidad del Rosario and the Universidad Santo Tomás.
Andrea Zubović-Devedžić
Andrea Zubović-Devedžić
Andrea Zubović-Devedžić is an attorney with experience in legal work in Bosnia and Herzegovina, admitted to the Bar after passing the Bar exam. She joined CMS Sarajevo in 2010. Her fields of expertise range from Banking and Finance and Corporate, litigation with significant experience in legal advising in number of other practice areas. Besides mentioned, Ms Zubovic-Devedzic possesses experience in legal advising in number of other practice areas and for the past seven years she advised a number of international clients in all commercial, corporate and property law issues.Andrea Zubović-Devedžić is a partner in cooperation with CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz. She specialises in banking and finance and the corporate field and has significant experience in litigation and legal advising in a number of other practice areas. For the past nine years, she has advised a number of international clients in all commercial, corporate and property law issues. She is experienced in banking and finance law, having been involved in some of the most innovative and ground-breaking banking and finance projects conducted in Bosnia and Herzegovina, with particular emphasis on the local regulatory framework and structuring of the transactions. In particular, she has advised clients on the regulatory aspects of the different types of financial operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina, coupled with transactional advice regarding financing projects including loans, capital markets, and syndicated structures, NPL restructuring and corporate aspects relevant for the finance industry.
Andrea Arcangeli
Andrea Arcangeli
Andrea Arcangeli started his collaboration with the Firm in 2017 in the Banking and Finance Department. Working in the Rome and Milan offices, Andrea specialises in private equity, venture capital, private debt and real estate with reference to fund formation, investment management and financial services. Andrea is a member of AIFI and since 2017 he is ranked among the most appreciated professionals in Europe according to Chambers and Partners and The Legal 500.
Annabelle Bailleul-Mirabaud
Annabelle Bailleul-Mirabaud
Partner. She specialises in international taxation with an expertise on permanent establishments, CFC and substance issues, assisting leading multinational groups in tax audits and litigation.
Anne-Laure Villedieu
Anne-Laure Villedieu
Anne-Laure Villedieu heads the Technology and IP Team of CMS Francis Lefebvre. She joined the firm in 1998, became a Partner in 2012 and is a member of the Advisory Board of the firm. She specializes in Technology and Data Privacy and regulary assists French businesses and international clients in contentious and non-contentious matters in the field of technology and privacy. Her non-contentious work includes drafting and negotiation of contracts as well as transactional.
Anne-Sophie Rostaing
Anne-Sophie Rostaing
Partner specialist in corporate tax, Anne-Sophie assists French and international companies with the tax structuring of their reorganisations and M&A projects (including cross-border operations), French tax consolidation rules and tax litigation. She has particular expertise in the taxation of French property investment funds (SIICs, OPCIs or SCPIs) and advises high-ranking managers on issues relating to management packages.
Arnaud Gérardin
Arnaud Gérardin
Partner in the Tax department. Arnaud is managing the Strasbourg office of CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre. He advises international and French companies in tax structuring, tax planning and tax audit.
Arnaud Le Boulanger
Arnaud Le Boulanger
Arnaud Le Boulanger heads the Economics team of CMS Legal, in charge of performing analyses in the fields of transfer pricing and asset valuation. As a specialist in these fields for more than 20 years, Arnaud has carried out and led numerous studies on a world-wide basis.As transfer pricing has emerged over the years as a high-profile, strategic issue both for enterprises and tax administrations, further illustrated by the introduction of new BEPS concepts by the OECD, Arnaud has developed a comprehensive practice in this area that serves the needs of his clients both in France and at an international level. By integrating their expertise in taxation matters with expertise in economic analysis, Arnaud and his team are able to provide structured advice throughout the whole transfer pricing chain (from strategic upstream advice, through TP documentation and assistance in APAs and MAPs, to defence in tax audits and litigations). Asset valuation analysis is also a key expertise of Arnaud and his team, which is particularly important for projects that involve such matters.Arnaud joined CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre in 2003 and he became a partner in 2008.
Arnaud Hugot
Arnaud Hugot
Partner in Corporate/M&A department, he is specialising in M&A transactions, including private equity, cross-border deals and joint-ventures (including on project finance transactions). He assists corporate clients, private equity firms as well as individuals on various types of transactions and has an extensive track record in the health sector.
Arnaud Donguy
Arnaud Donguy
Arnaud Donguy is a partner in the Direct Contributions Department of CMS Francis Lefebvre.  Arnaud specialises in providing advice and assistance with business taxation and corporate tax, namely, mainly: tax consolidation, internal and international restructuring operations (mergers, partial business transfers, demergers...), overlapping tax and accounting problems of tax result calculation, the practice of tax audits and interventions in acquisitions or LBO operations, structuring and arranging of finance.Arnaud also assists his clients with tax inspection issues and any resulting disputes.
Arno Zimmermann
Arno Zimmermann
Arno Zimmermann is an attorney-at-law for corporate law/M&A, inheritance law and litigation & arbitration (dispute resolution). He also specialises in directors' liability.
Aurore-Emmanuelle Rubio
Aurore-Emmanuelle Rubio
Aurore-Emmanuelle Rubio is a counsel at CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats. She is an expert in decarbonation issues and in project development / management in the energy sector. Her practice focuses on renewable energies (solar, wind, hydro, biogas, hydrogen), on conventional energies (gas, oil, coal) as well as on energy demand side management (energy savings certificates mechanism). Expert in legal, regulatory and transactional issues, she is also involved in dispute resolution.
Barry Edgar
Barry Edgar
Barry is a partner in the Real Estate practice based in our Glasgow office having joined the firm in 2005. His varied workload encompasses a broad spectrum of commercial property work including investment acquisition and disposal, leasing on behalf of Landlords and Tenants, and development work for clients such as Hammerson, Aviva Investors, M&G Real Estate, Universities Superannuation Scheme Limited, London & Regional, Doosan Babcock, Scottish Enterprise and Glasgow Clyde College.
Benjamin Bill
Benjamin Bill
Benjamin has extensive experience in the work with clients on complex real estate transactions. He advises on a broad range of aspects related to it, including acquisition and disposal of real estate assets or companies, of French or pan-European portfolios, the structuring of projects with the creation of regulated and non-regulated investment vehicles and funds such as OPCIs and the acquisitions or disposals. Benjamin’s work also covers property development transactions, commercial leases and real estate financing. Benjamin’s client base extends private and public sectors and includes domestic and international investors, asset managers and property companies which he assists on national and cross-border real estate projects.
Bernhard Hainz
Bernhard Hainz
Bernhard Hainz is a partner at CMS in Vienna and head of the specialist Employment and Pension Law Department. Bernhard Hainz is one of the leading specialists in Austria and for more than 30 years has primarily advised companies in all areas of contentious and non-contentious employment law matters, including the negotiation of collective agreements, works agreements, social plans, disputes with works councils and employees, service agreements and dissolution agreements as well as pension and pension fund matters. As a result of his previous position as an assistant at the Vienna University Institute for Employment Law and Social Law, Bernhard Hainz and his team combine high-level academic qualifications with many years of practical legal experience. In addition, Bernhard Hainz has expertise in the area of art law and in this connection he represents artists and art institutions both nationally and internationally.
Bernt Elsner
Bernt Elsner
Bernt Elsner is partner and global head of the CMS Public Procurement Group. He is a leading expert in the fields of public procurement, antitrust and public law. He studied law at the University of Vienna and business administration at the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration. In 1993-94 he worked as a research assistant at the Austrian Constitutional Court for the constitutional judges Prof. Dr. Karl Spielbüchler and Prof. Dr. Karl Korinek. In 1997 he practised European competition law at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in Brussels. From 2004 to 2010 he was Managing Partner of CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz. He has more than 24 years of professional experience in Vienna and Brussels. Bernt Elsner is one of the leading Austrian experts in the dynamic and constantly changing field of public procurement law. His numerous publications and lectures have had a significant impact on Austrian public procurement law. He advises public entities on the structuring of complex tenders, advises bidders on their participation in award procedures, especially public-private partnerships (PPP projects), and frequently represents them in public procurement disputes. He has extensive experience in tender-relevant compliance issues.
Borys Danevych
Partner, Head of Life Sciences & Healthcare practice at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang (Kyiv)
Bruno Gibert
Bruno Gibert
Partner specialised in international taxation and transfer pricing. On this last domain, he heads the Transfer Pricing group the CMS network has put in place within the Tax practice.
Bruno Gouthière
Bruno Gouthière
Bruno Gouthière joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats on June 1, 1989.
Carolina Gajate
Carolina Gajate
Partner and cohead of the Real Estate & Construction practice area. She specialises in real estate, construction, corporate M&A and finance matters in relation to real estate projects.
Caroline Froger-Michon
Caroline Froger-Michon
Caroline Froger-Michon is Co-Head of the CMS Employment & Pensions Group. In this position, she jointly leads an international team of 280 lawyers. Caroline is a partner in the Employment Law Department of CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats. She works mainly with large French and international corporate groups in different sectors. Her expertise includes restructuring (transfer of employment contracts, adjustment of collective statutes, structure of information/consultation procedures, management of IRPs, etc.) and the employment aspects of M&A operations (due diligence, employment aspects of negotiations, support during information/consultation procedures, employment aspects of the legal framework used, post-acquisition monitoring, etc.). Caroline also deals with the legal aspects of individual and collective labour relations, collective redundancies, voluntary redundancy plans, Works Council and European Works Council law, expertise in works councils and health & safety committees, etc. and discrimination, harassment, psycho-social risks. She has extensive experience in providing day-to-day support to businesses or foreign corporate groups located in France or looking to move to France.
Caryn Miller
Caryn Miller
Partner and Managing Director for Asia and the Middle East
Cathy Goarant-Moraglia
Cathy Goarant-Moraglia
Cathy joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1995, and became a partner in 2006. Her practice covers business taxation for enterprises and local authorities, minimum contribution based on value-added, property and land tax, tax on offices, retail and warehouse premises in Ile-de-France and occupancy tax for both corporate and individual taxpayers.
Cédric Mahéo
Cédric Mahéo
Senior Associate. Head of Transfer pricing for Africa zone.
Céline Cloché-Dubois
Céline Cloché-Dubois
Partner and Head of the Environment Practice. She acts for a large number of French and international clients particularly in relation to environment, urban planning, renewable energy and public business law.
Chris Watson
Chris Watson
Partner Chair, Technology, Media & Communications
Christoph Wolf
Christoph Wolf
Christoph Wolf is a partner at CMS and heads the employment and pensions team together with Bernhard Hainz. For over 15 years he has been particularly advising companies with respect to judicial and extra-judicial labour law matters, including the implementation of restructuring measures, negotiating works agreements and redundancy plans as well as settling disputes with works councils and employees.  An additional focal point of his work revolves around providing support to former state-owned companies, as well as dealing with various labour law-related issues in the area of compliance projects. He also advises clients on legal issues concerning the international secondment of staff as well as all labour law topics relevant in the field of compliance. In addition, Christoph Wolf has served and continues to serve as a lecturer at the University of Vienna, the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, the Danube University Krems as well as the Medical University of Vienna.
Christophe Vezinhet
Christophe Vezinhet
He specialises in direct taxation and works mainly in the field of property tax, corporate and local authority tax, taxation of restructuring and development operations, providing advice on the adaptation of structures and tax disputes and assistance with the monitoring of inspections.
Christophe Aldebert
Christophe Aldebert
He is a tax specialist with expertise in VAT matters. He works with a diverse clientele of financial institutions and mutual companies in the following areas: the VAT and indirect tax regimes of business transactions, implementation of resource-sharing groups and joint ventures, optimisation of restructuring operations (mergers/acquisitions, outsourcing), assistance with audit monitoring, management of tax adjustments and tax disputes.Christophe runs training courses at the Fédération Nationale des Sociétés d'Economie Mixte (FNSEM) on the VAT regime for public services, the FCTVA (VAT Compensation Fund) and relationships with local authorities
Christophe Frionnet
Christophe Frionnet
Christophe Frionnet is a direct taxation specialist and specifically handles matters relating to the taxation of groups of companies and non-profit organisations, wealth tax and property tax. He also regularly works on all aspects of French taxation in connection with the establishment of share option, subscription and acquisition schemes by French and foreign groups, employee savings and share ownership schemes. He also advises on LBO and LMBO projects.
Christophe Lefaillet
Christophe Lefaillet
Christophe Lefaillet joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1989 and became a partner in 2005. He specialises in all matters relating to consolidation and restructuring operations for listed and unlisted companies.
Christophe Le Camus
Christophe Le Camus
Christophe joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1990 and became a partner in 2006. An expert in direct taxation, he focuses mainly on issues relating to the taxation of corporate groups.
Claire Vannini
Claire Vannini
Claire is a partner of the EU law, Regulatory & Competition department, she currently assists clients, who are principally major French and foreign groups as well as public entities, on regulatory issues, competition and EU law. She enjoys a broad expertise in the field of State aid in which she is involved in various notification proceedings before the European Commission as well as litigation before ECJ. She has also developed a specific expertise on issues related to competition/EU rules applicable to public sector and in the field of electronic communications, public transports (especially railway) and networks. She also assists clients in their institutional relationships with national and European institutions regarding EU law in general. Her practice includes advise and litigation before national and EU courts.
Conor Warde
Conor Warde
Conor Warde is a partner in the Hong Kong office of Mayer Brown. He has a diverse practice advising clients on transactional, corporate, regulatory and policy matters with particular experience in ship finance and maritime transactional matters. He represents companies, commercial lenders and investors in international financings, M&A and other corporate transactions across multiple industries and involving a broad range of corporate finance and investment issues, including senior and subordinated debt financings, asset-based lending transactions, and private equity investments.Conor also has significant experience in representing owners and operators of vessels and other maritime and offshore interests, primarily with regard to private equity and ship and other asset financing transactions; ship sale and purchase and shipbuilding contracts; international and US-specific regulatory compliance; offshore drilling contracts and regulatory matters; international sanctions regimes; and pollution incident response and criminal prosecutions.
Damien Decolasse
Damien Decolasse
Partner. He specialises in employment law and provides advice in collective and individual labour relations and on the employment implications of strategic decisions. He also provides and manages the employment law consequences of mergers and acquisitions and advises his clients on stock option plans and incentive plans on both a local and international level. He also assists his clients in matters of secondment.He also advises his clients in major social security adjustment cases (in negotiations with the social security administration body and in court cases).
Daniel Gutmann
Daniel Gutmann
Daniel Gutmann is a partner in the Tax Doctrine team. He is also professor of Tax Law at the University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne. He joined the firm in 2007 as of-counsel and was made a partner in 2011. His main function within the firm is to coordinate the lawyers’ position papers in cases involving a high level of legal complexity and to supervise the guidance documents and studies sent to clients. He is in constant contact with professional organisations and tax authorities and contributes through various channels to expert output in tax matters. In this regard, he is the author of a book “Droit fiscal des affaires” (Lextenso, 2015, 6th ed.), and the co-editor of a commentary (in French) on the OECD tax treaty model (Ed. Francis Lefebvre-Helbing Lichtenhahn, 2014). Finally, he is the author of numerous articles in French and international journals.
Daniela Krömer
Daniela Krömer
Daniela Krömer is an attorney-at-law in the field of Labour Law and EU Law. She has been a member of the Employment Law Team at CMS since 2013. In addition to standard employment law advice, she also supports clients primarily in matters of European employment law, for example in the area of cross-border employment of workers, in particular in the area of wage and social dumping, as well as in questions of equal treatment.
Daniela Karollus-Bruner
Daniela Karollus-Bruner
Daniela Karollus-Bruner is a partner at CMS and leads our dispute resolution group as well as the insurance industry team. In addition, she is a member of our teams for corporate and commercial law. She has many years of experience with highly complex litigation and arbitration cases for clients from various industries, with a special focus on the energy, media, banking, financial services and insurance industries. She represents Austrian and international clients at courts and at arbitration courts with a focus on cases involving damages, contracts, product liability, corporate and competition law. During and after law school in Vienna and Paris, she held assistant positions with the University of Vienna Law School (e.g. at the Department of Civil Law). She has over 20 years of experience as a lawyer in Vienna and Linz. In addition, she is a sought-after speaker at executive seminars as well as author and co-author of various expert articles.
Denis Redon
Denis Redon
Partner in EU, Competition & Distribution. His activity covers all EU and French competition issues, including both antitrust practices and merger law. He assists companies for their French, EU or multi-jurisdictional merger notifications.He has a significant experience before French competition Authority or national courts in litigation cases  related to various types of anticompetitive practices or  to damage claims in relation to such practices.He advises his clients for the implementation of antitrust compliance programs.He assists his client in setting their distribution network regarding Competition law and in particular rules related to vertical restraints.He has also developed a strong expertise as regards the French specific regulation that governs restrictive practises and relations between suppliers and distributors. 
Diego García
Diego García
Diego is the partner that leads the Tax group for CMS Carey & Allende. He focuses on tax planning and restructuring for local and foreign companies. He also provides consulting services regarding fiscal and municipal taxes for companies, high net-worth individuals and families. Diego works in close coordination with other areas of our firm, providing his experience and vision on tax matters, as an essential part of added value that we provide for our clients.
Dimitar Hadjiveltchev
Dimitar Hadjiveltchev
Dimitar develops services dedicated to the franco-bulgarian relations, together with Jivko Sedlarski from the Sofia office of CMS RRH. He was joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 2001 and became Partner in 2017.
Dimitri Leboff
Dimitri Leboff
Dimitri Leboff joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in May 1999 and became a partner in January 2012. He specialises in corporate taxation and company group taxation including advisory, tax audits and litigation. He provides assistance to French and international groups on direct taxation issues, merger & acquisition operations, restructuring and tax audit management.
Edouard Milhac
Edouard Milhac
Partner specialised in international and domestic taxation. He advises on mergers and acquisitions and cross-border restructuring, tax audits and litigations, and non-resident real estate investments. His clients include multinationals, partnerships, financial institutions and high net worth individuals.
Egon Engin-Deniz
Egon Engin-Deniz
Dr Egon Engin-Deniz is a partner in the firm and has been with CMS since 1991. Egon Engin-Deniz is an attorney-at-law for intellectual property law and a leading expert in the fields of Life Sciences & Healthcare and TMC - Technology, Media & Telecommunications. He heads the Intellectual Property and Media Department of CMS in Vienna. He has extensive expertise in contentious and non-contentious trademark, domain and patent law, copyright including access control law, distribution and unfair competition law. His team specialises in the prosecution of product piracy and the examination of parallel imports. Egon Engin-Deniz is a recognised expert in cross-border litigation and licensing. Equally important as his intensive involvement in litigation activities are the strategic "cradle to grave" advisory services he provides to companies, starting from the choice of names and portfolio management to trademark, patents and licensing strategies. Up until 2008, Egon Engin-Deniz was state commissioner for the Austrian collecting societies OeSTIG und LSG.
Elisabeth Ashworth
Elisabeth Ashworth
Elisabeth Ashworth joined the Tax Intelligence Department of CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in May 2008. She works closely with the VAT units which are made up of about 30 lawyers, of which seven partners.Former individual member of the EU VAT Expert Group working with the EU Commission (2012-2014), Elisabeth is head of the VAT subgroup of the CMS Tax practice area group. She also co-leads the VAT Commission of the IACF (French Tax lawyers association).She works closely with various business organisations such as MEDEF and AFEP.
Enrique Vergara
Enrique Vergara
Enrique is partner and head of Banking & Finance Group at CMS Carey & Allende since 2015. His practice focuses on financing, reorganizations, mergers and acquisitions, capital markets and corporate law. He has advised local and foreign clients on banking and financial matters, especially in syndicated loans, project finance for the infrastructure and energy sector, debt restructurings, credit transfers, and in the issuance and placement of corporate bonds that are publicly listed and offered on the market.
Evis Zaja
Evis Zaja is a partner at CMS Tirana. She has more than 15 years of experience in providing legal advice on corporate matters to national and international clients. She heads the competition practice at CMS Tirana. 
Florence Chérel
Florence Chérel
Partner. She assists investors as well as developers in the context of development projects in all their components of real estate law and public law. She also has litigation practice in public law.
Florentin Sanson
Florentin Sanson
Florentin is a counsel active in contentious and non-contentious matters in various areas of expertise including media, advertising, entertainment, copyright, data protection, e-commerce, trademarks and business law. He has developed a strong practice in advising on media and advertising regulation as well as on production and exploitation of podcasts and of audiovisual, cinematographic, musical, literary and advertising works.
Fontaine Lai
Fontaine Lai
Fontaine is an associate in the Hong Kong Office. She is experienced in handling shipping litigation and arbitration matters, and has also assisted with general commercial disputes and insolvency matters. Prior to joining CMS, Fontaine worked for an international shipping law firm and an International Group P&I Club. She has written for various publications, including The Annotated Ordinances of Hong Kong: Bills of Lading and Analogous Shipping Documents Ordinance (Cap 440) (2nd edition, 2018) published by LexisNexis Butterworths. Fontaine is a Hong Kong qualified lawyer who obtained her LLB, PCLL and LLM at the University of Hong Kong. Prior to reading law, Fontaine obtained a BBA (Law) degree from the same university, having been on the Dean’s Honours List and graduating with First Class Honours. She is fluent in English, Mandarin and Cantonese.
François Tenailleau
François Tenailleau
Public contracts (including public procurement contracts, concessions, PPP). Public property, urban planning, environment, public entities financing, public institutions. state aids.
François Hellio
François Hellio
François Hellio has over twenty-five years' professional experience and is involved in all aspects of international taxation, particularly in transfer pricing and litigation.Having spent more than six years in the Berlin office, he has developed an expertise in Franco-German taxation. His publications focus mainly on this expertise. He is the author of reference works on French taxation in Germany and numerous articles on taxation both in France and Germany.His clients are mainly French and foreign listed corporate groups or family businesses.
François Lacroix
François Lacroix
François Lacroix joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1980. He became a partner in 1998. François specialises in corporate direct taxation and deals more specifically with restructurings and mergers & acquisitions, as well as property and finance taxation.
François Coutard
François Coutard
François Coutard is a partner in the Employment Law team of CMS Francis Lefebvre Lyon.
Frédéric Gerner
Frédéric Gerner
Frédéric is a partner at CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats specialising in direct taxes. He handles all aspects of company taxation. Frederic has developed specific expertise in reorganisations, tax consolidation and, more generally, in corporate taxation of French and international groups. He usually advises companies in (i) the implementation and management of their tax policies, (ii) their relationships with the tax authorities (either for tax ruling requests or during tax audits), and (iii) tax litigation. He also has a detailed knowledge of tax issues in the property sector. He regularly assists various property stakeholders, including key French REITs.Frédéric has been with CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats since 1999. He worked at the New York office from June 1999 to September 2000 and became a partner in 2015.
Gaëtan Berger-Picq
Gaëtan Berger-Picq
Gaëtan Berger-Picq joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1997 and became a partner in 2008.Gaëtan specializes in VAT planning and consultancy, particularly in real-estate VAT.
Gentscho Pavlov
Gentscho Pavlov
Co-Managing Partner of CMS Sofia and CEE Partner 2004 joined CMS Sofia
Ghislain Beaure d'Augères
Ghislain Beaure d'Augères
Partner. His practice embraces both advice and contentious work for a clientele made up of French and foreign businesses, principally in the following areas: large scale restructurings; duration of work (evening work - Sunday work …) ; employee representative ; executive careers ; contributions adjustments ; individual and collective litigation ; URSSAF litigation. Ghislain is also the author of a successful pleading before the Constitutional council of the French Republic.
Gonçalo Madeira
Gonçalo Madeira is a Partner in the Dispute Resolution and Insolvency & Restructuring teams. With over 20 years of experience, he represents a roster of clients, in disputes arising from commercial relations between companies, purchase and sale agreements, supply and service agreements, works contracts, agency agreements, or commercial concession agreements in general, among others. He also has experience in disputes relating to non-contractual civil liability. Gonçalo advises national and international clients both in the pre-litigation stage and in disputes before judicial or arbitral courts. Gonçalo is recognised for Litigation and Insolvency and Reorganization Law by Best Lawyers since 2019. He is also acknowledged as Excellent for Restructuring & Insolvency by Leaders League 2024 Joined CMS Rui Portugal in 2022.
Graham Conlon
Graham Conlon
Managing Partner CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang Ukraine, Head of Private Equity– CEE/CIS
Gregor Famira
Gregor Famira
Gregor Famira is partner at CMS Vienna and an expert for the hotel and leisure industry and  in corporate law/M&A. He is founder and head of the CMS offices in Zagreb (2003) and Ljubljana (2008) and also coordinates the firm’s activities in the area of Real Estate in CEE and has been active in CEE for 20 years. During this time, he has advised on numerous corporate and real estate transactions in the region Gregor Famira focusses on the asset classes ‘hotels’ and ‘trade’; he advises owners, financiers and operators/traders not only on transactions, but also on rental and lease agreements as well as franchise and hotel management contracts and real estate developments. Gregor Famira’s second pillar (since 2005) is advising mainly Austrian start-up companies.
Grégory Benteux
Grégory Benteux
Partner, Head of Securitisation and Structured Debt. He specialises in both domestic and offshore securitisation and structured finance transactions relating to all forms of assets (in particular trade receivables, tax or public receivables, loans, tangible assets…). Grégory is involved in the setting up of securitisation programmes for French and foreign credit institutions or for major companies. He has an important experience in off-balanced sheet transactions (IFRS, US GAAP, French GAAP). .
Guillaume Bouté
Guillaume Bouté
Guillaume is a consel specializes in insolvency law, corporate restructuring, acting both as counsel and litigation lawyer : Insolvency prevention & restructuring (whistleblowing procedures (procédures d'alerte), negotiating with creditors (debt restructuring, standstill agreements, etc.), implementing refinancing agreements, prevention procedures: mandat ad hoc, conciliation, insolvent business restructuring and acquisitions; Insolvency procedures (sauvegarde, redressement judiciaire and liquidation judiciaire), whether on behalf of the business, creditor, purchaser or shareholders and Litigation, specifically in relation to insolvent businesses, including in the event of conflicting creditors’ rights (e.g., direct legal action), liability actions against managing officers (dirigeants), etc. He joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2010.
Günther Hanslik
Günther Hanslik
Günther Hanslik is a partner in the transactions team of CMS Vienna, focusing on finance transactions, restructurings and corporate transactions. As head of the transactional finance team of CMS Vienna, he supports clients in high-profile projects in Austria and CEE. He continuously acts on behalf of leading European financial institutions as well as large corporations. Günther Hanslik has been teaching at the University of Vienna and the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration for many years.  
Henri Bitar
Henri Bitar
Henri Bitar is a partner in VAT. He joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1998 after having worked at PriceWaterhouseCoopers. He specialises in VAT planning and consultancy, intra-EU trade, exports, bank and finance, real estate, and other special VAT regimes. He also specialises in Payroll tax (“Taxe sur les salaires”).
Ian McGarr
Ian McGarr
Ian McGarr is a partner in the Real Estate Finance team.  
Ihor Olekhov
Ihor Olekhov
Partner, Head of Banking & Finance Practice at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang (Kyiv)
Indir Osmić
Indir Osmić is an attorney at law in cooperation with CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz admitted to the FBiH Bar. He joined CMS Sarajevo in 2011. His main fields of expertise are Corporate law, Finance law, Tax Law, Energy Law and Compliance.  Indir’s work also includes corporate finance work, such as coordinating M&A deals with focus on finance structuring and regulatory. He has expanded his experience by working as a country team leader in complex regional cross-border transaction projects.    Besides mentioned, Mr. Osmic possesses experience in commercial, administrative and tax litigation cases where he advised and represented a number of international clients.
Ivan Gergov
Ivan Gergov
Partner, CMS Sofia 2014 joined CMS Sofia Previous experience includes other international law firms and 2 investment banks.
Ivan Gazdić
Ivan Gazdić
Ivan Gazdić is a partner at CMS Belgrade with more than a decade of experience in assisting clients with the development of commercial real estate and energy projects in Serbia and in Montenegro.
Jane Evenson
Jane Evenson
Partner European and UK Patent Attorney, UPC representative
Javier Ferrero
Javier Ferrero
Javier Ferrero is a partner in the Dispute Resolution area at CMS Grau
Jean-Baptiste Thiénot
Jean-Baptiste Thiénot
Jean-Baptiste Thiénot is partner in the IP team of CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats and head of the patent group. Jean-Baptiste’s activity covers litigation as well as advice and drafting of contracts in various industrial sectors, particularly in the life sciences, mechanical and electronic fields. He is frequently involved in cases relating to products subject to specific regulations.
Jean-Charles Benois
Jean-Charles Benois
Jean-Charles Benois joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2012 (and was co-opted as a partner in 2019). He is involved in tax law, and in particular in company group taxation as well as in transactional and Private Equity taxation. He also assists private persons, shareholders and directors, in their personal and asset taxation affairs. Jean-Charles Benois assists his clients as a tax advisor, but also in the context of tax controversies before the tax authorities and/or tax courts
Jean-Christophe Sauzey
Jean-Christophe Sauzey
Jean-Christophe joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1987 and became a partner in 1999. With an expertise in national and international taxation, he focuses mainly on the following areas: taxation of international groups and transfer pricing, providing support for tax inspections and representing international groups, asset taxation and the taxation of research & innovation
Jean-Eric Cros
Jean-Eric Cros
Jean-Eric joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1989 and is currently Head of the Corporate – M&A Department. He became a partner in 2003. He handles all aspects of mergers & acquisitions and restructurings for both listed and unlisted companies: drafting documentation and legal instruments, assisting with merger negotiations, acquisitions, disposals, joint ventures, shareholders’ agreements, restructuring programmes (mergers, asset transfers, etc.) both in France and abroad, arranging and structuring finance (equity, MBOs, MBIs), investment capital, legal audits, data room and due diligence, IPOs and stock exchange law.
Jean-Fabrice Brun
Jean-Fabrice Brun
Partner specialised in civil law, commercial law, enforcement measures and criminal business law including criminal tax matters.
Jean-Philippe Bidegainberry
Jean-Philippe Bidegainberry
Jean-Philippe Bidegainberry joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1997.A tax specialist, Jean-Philippe assists French and international groups with their taxation matters, in particular: assistance with group tax management (calculation of taxable revenue, deficit management, intra-group relationships), assistance with tax consolidation (setting up tax consolidations, preparing consolidated tax returns, monitoring of deferred tax liabilities, complex issues), assistance with restructuring and financing operations and assistance with tax inspections and disputes.
Jean-René Bénichou
Jean-René Bénichou
Partner in direct taxation. Jean-René Bénichou joined Bureau Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1987.
Jean-Thomas Heintz (Lyon)
Jean-Thomas Heintz (Lyon)
Jean-Thomas Heintz is a partner in the Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions team at CMS Francis Lefebvre Lyon.
Jens Winter
Jens Winter
Jens Winter is an attorney-at-law in the field of employment law. He is a partner at CMS and advises national and international companies mainly on questions of individual and collective employment law, data protection law in the area of employment law and company pension law. He is the author of numerous publications and is frequently asked to lecture on this area of expertise. He has many years of experience representing national and international clients before courts and public authorities. In addition, he has extensive practical experience in the implementation and realisation of company restructuring and the spin-off or merger of businesses or individual business units in the course of domestic or international transfers of operations. He has also been called on for his employment law expertise in the evaluation and realisation of several domestic and cross-border transactions.
Jérôme Sutour
Jérôme Sutour
Partner, Head of Financial Services: Asset management (funds structuring with an emphasis on alternative investment funds), investment and banking regulations (with an emphasis on innovative productsl e-money andmarketing) and derivatives.
Johann Roc'h
Johann Roc'h
Partner in international taxation. He advises clients on all tax issues related to mergers and acquisitions, intragroup reorganizations, real estate investments and financial products, usually on transactions with a cross-border dimension. In this context, he assists multinational groups, investments funds and financial institutions. Johann joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 2006 and became Partner in 2017.
Johannes Juranek
Johannes Juranek
Johannes Juranek is managing partner of CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz and an expert in technology, data protection and business law. He has extensive experience in handling complex legal cases in the areas of IT law, data protection and commercial law. Among other things, he advises clients on the implementation of compliance regulations in connection with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). His clients include technology, software and industrial companies, banks and healthcare companies. Johannes Juranek also represents clients before courts and arbitration tribunals in these areas.  
Johannes Hysek
Johannes Hysek
Johannes Hysek is an attorney-at-law for real estate law. He advises national and international clients on a wide range of topics from financing agreements to the acquisition, sale and development of commercial real estate and real estate portfolios. For many years he has advised numerous Austrian and international clients—including insurance companies and funds—on real estate transactions (including mortgage-backed syndicated loan agreements), privatisations and corporate restructurings. In addition, he regularly supports international (luxury) brands in their market entry and the establishment of flagship stores in Austria. Johannes Hysek has been a member of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) for many years and is a lecturer at the FH for Real Estate Management. Johannes Hysek has been nominated for the award Acritas Stars 2021.
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig
Johannes Reich-Rohrwig is a partner in the firm’s Corporate and Litigation Group at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz. For many years, Johannes has been one of the leading corporate lawyers in Austria and a highly esteemed litigator. As professor at the University of Vienna, Law school he has an outstanding academic reputation. He is author of various commentaries, books and articles with a particular focus on corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, antitrust and partnership law, including the leading commentary on the Austrian Act on limited liability companies. He is co-editor of “ecolex”, the leading Austrian commercial law journal. Johannes Reich-Rohrwig has been nominated for the award Acritas Stars 2021.
Jorge Allende
Jorge Allende
Jorge is a senior partner and head of the Mining and Energy & Climate Change teams and co-head of Infrastructure & Projects team for CMS Carey & Allende. He also is very active within the Corporate/M&A practice group. He advises several national and multinational companies in the mining, engineering and construction, energy and natural resources industries. He also has extensive experience in project finance and M&A transactions, particularly in the areas mentioned. Previously, as member of the board  of large companies and knowing the private-sector needs from the inside, he has advised clients in connection with numerous large-scale mining projects in Chile since 1990, including the negotiation of multimillion-dollar EPC and EPCM contracts, acquisition of large mining concessions, foreign investment contracts and project finance deals. Key clients:  Inversiones Alxar (Empresas Copec’s mining assets company), Worley Chile S.A. (former Jacobs Chile), Elecnor (Spain), Nol-Tec Chile, Enagás (Spain), AECOM.
Juan José Hopkins
Juan José Hopkins
Partner of the Corporate M&A and TMC area. He is an expert in financial transactions, M&A, Venture Capital and Fintech.
Julien Saïac
Julien Saïac
Partner specialised in international taxation. He handles questions related to corporate taxation, and more specifically cross-border restructuring and M&A, real estate investments, transfer pricing, international tax litigations.
Julio Frías
Julio Frías
Julio is a partner and leads the Labor & Pensions team at CMS Carey &  Allende. He has more than ten years of experience, in which he has focused on labor litigation, collective bargaining, and dispute resolution. In addition, Julio has advised national and international companies in Chile on o including prevention of damages and strategic labour law advice to both local and international clients on a daily basis. He provides comprehensive advice to companies in various economic sectors, providing support in the hiring of personnel, the definition of special labor conditions, the structuring of compensation packages, occupational safety, the management of terminations and representation in labor litigation. The team he leads collaborates closely with the corporate and tax areas, actively participating in due diligence processes related to mergers and acquisitions.
Kawthar Ben Khelil
Kawthar Ben Khelil
Kawthar Ben Khelil is a Counsel within the Public law Department of CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats. She is active in public business law and in particular in the following areas: public contracts (including public procurement contracts, concessions, public-private partnerships, contracts of occupancy of the public domain, complex contractual agreements) and other issues in relation to public law (public property law, financing of public entities, public sector entities, social housing, public subsidies, etc).
Klaus Pateter
Klaus Pateter
Klaus Pateter is an attorney-at law for Technology, Media & Telecommunications (TMC), FinTech & Digital Assets, IT Law, Data Protection, Digitalisation & Start-ups. Klaus Pateter advises and represents his clients in the areas of regulatory law, digital assets, IT law, licensing of technology and software (domestic & international), data protection law and medical technology. He also specialises in advising tech start-ups in all phases of growth and advises on setting up corporate structures as well as on founding and financing, in particular in the area of venture capital. He heads the Start-up Advisory Group of CMS Austria and coordinates equIP, CMS' renowned legal accelerator for tech start-ups.
Krzysztof Sikora
Krzysztof Sikora
Senior Associate, Antitrust, Competition and Trade Department in Poland
Laurent Marquet de Vasselot
Laurent Marquet de Vasselot
Partner specialised in Employment and social security law: National and international restructurings, redundancy plans; Collective bargaining; Collectivelindividual disputes.
Laurent Romano (Lyon)
Laurent Romano (Lyon)
Laurent Romano is a partner of CMS Francis Lefebvre Lyon, in the Economic, Contract and Intellectual Property departments of the law firm.  
Laurent Chatel
Laurent Chatel
Laurent Chatel specialises in local taxation. A partner at the firm since 2003, he works on Territorial Economic Contribution (CET) matters (involving corporate property tax (CFE) and company value-added contributions (CVAE)), property tax on buildings and unbuilt land, tax on certain premises in Ile-de-France, occupancy tax for corporate and individual taxpayers, local tax on external advertising (TLPE) and street tax, tax on commercial premises (TASCOM), public electricity service contributions (CSPE), tax on the removal of household refuse, etc. He assists businesses and public institutions in his areas of expertise both in terms of advice and litigation, and with audits. He also helps local communities more generally to manage their relationships with the State.Laurent has been lawyer at CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats since 1990, having started his career with Arthur Andersen Legal. He supports over 700 businesses annually, both with their everyday tax management and with the fiscal implications of their external development or restructuring projects, in all economic sectors in France (agriculture, industry, construction, transport, banking, insurance, distribution, wholesale, energy, delegation of public services, media, services, etc.). He is a member of the tax committees of several professional organisations (such as MEDEF, AFIC, SFIF, UNICEM, CGI, etc.) and was an expert auditor during the Taxation Conference (a committee set up in 2014 to reform the French tax system) in early 2014.
Laurent Mion
Laurent Mion
Partner in banking & finance. He is particularly involved in banking and insurance transactions and regulations.
Laurent Hepp
Laurent Hepp
Partner specialised in Corporate taxation. He advises French and international groups on all tax related matters. He frequently works in the area of M&A and Private Equity with a particular expertise in the tax structuring of operations and acquisitions in France. He also assists entrepreneurs, shareholders and managers on personal tax issues.
Lidia Dziurzyńska-Leipert
Lidia Dziurzyńska-Leipert
Lidia Dziurzynska-Leipert is a partner and head of the Construction Group within the Real Estate and Construction Department at CMS. She also heads the hotel & leisure sector group, advising both landlords and operators on projects in the accommodation sector, as well as heading the German Desk at CMS Poland. Lidia focuses her practice on legal advice in connection with major construction undertakings (including major infrastructure projects, e.g. railway, road, waste treatment, plants, stadiums, development projects, etc.) and construction disputes. Furthermore she advises clients on real estate transactions (asset and share deal) in the main asset classes (office, hotel,  retail and the logistics sector). Lidia also has extensive experience in working on project development, as well as on lease agreements.
Louis Glass
Louis Glass
Partner Head of TMT M&A and UK Managing Partner, Tel Aviv
Ludovic Duguet
Ludovic Duguet
Partner specialises in direct taxation and works mainly on restructuring operations in the property field (mergers, outsourcing), property tax, group tax and tax disputes and assistance with monitoring audits.Ludovic Duguet joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 2006.
Luis Alberto Liñán
Luis Alberto Liñán
Partner and head of the Dispute Resolution practice area. He specialises in litigation and local and international arbitration.
Lukas Peissl
Lukas Peissl
Lukas Peissl is an attorney-at-law primarily in the field of corporate law/M&A and dispute resolution. Lukas J. Peissl's practice focuses on out-of-court and judicial dispute resolution, including representation before arbitral tribunals (ICC, VIAC, UNCITRAL, Swiss Rules, ad hoc), primarily representing companies in corporate and construction disputes. In addition, HNI is also advised and represented in connection with questions of inheritance law and corporate succession.
Maja Stepanović
Maja Stepanović
Maja Stepanović is a partner at CMS Belgrade who specialises in all aspects of corporate law and transactions, as well as in matters of commercial law.
Małgorzata Urbańska
Małgorzata Urbańska
Partner, Head of Antitrust, Competition and Trade Department in Poland Partner, Head of CEE Consumer Products
Marc-Etienne Sébire
Marc-Etienne Sébire
Partner, Head of Capital Markets: Debt Capital Markets (plain-vanilla and structured bonds. European private placements, EMTN programmes, hybrid instruments, covered bonds, high yield, commercial paper and liability management transactions), Equity Capital Markets (IPO, convertible and exchangeable bonds) and Structured Derivatives.
Marcell Clark
Marcell Clark
Marcell Clark is a Partner at CMS Vienna and attorney-at-law for Banking & Finance. He has over 25 years’ experience in cross-border financing and real estate transactions and has represented clients on their most important transactions in the CEE and SEE regions and around the globe. In addition to senior secured and unsecured transactions, he has extensive experience advising on construction and subordinated debt matters as well as real estate investment, agricultural and timber funds in their acquisitions and dispositions.
Marcin Bejm
Marcin Bejm
Partner, Head of the Energy and Infrastructure at CMS in Poland
Maria Orlyk
Maria Orlyk
Maria Orlyk is a Managing Partner of the office of CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz in Kyiv and a Co-Head of the Energy & Climate Change PAG of CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz.Maria Orlyk is a lawyer specialising in corporate/M&A, energy, competition and employment law.
Maria Rodia
Maria Rodia
Partner and Head of the CMS UK Pensions team.
Marija Tešić
Marija Tešić is a partner at CMS Belgrade, specialising in corporate/M&A, insolvency & restructuring and capital market law and can draw on more than 14 years of experience in advising international companies in Serbia on various legal matters.
Mark Heighton
Mark Heighton
Partner Co-Head of the CMS International Real Estate Group
Maxime Hanriot
Maxime Hanriot
Maxime assists local and international clients in legal counselling and litigation, in particular in the following fields: Intellectual Property, Information Technology, Personal data protection, Media and communications, Sport Law and Commercial Law.
Michał Śmiechowski
Michał Śmiechowski
Counsel, Leader of the Debt Capital Markets Practice in Poland Counsel, Banking & Finance Department in Poland
Michel Collet
Michel Collet
He has an extensive experience in assisting inbound and outbound investments. He assists French and foreign banks, funds, multinationals and high net individuals in M&A transactions, financings and real estate investments. Michel also advises high net worth individuals, mainly artists and, sportmen. Michel also assists countries in the design of their tax policy and negociation of tax treaties.
Michelle Barclay
Michelle Barclay
Partner and head of the Bankruptcy and Restructuring area, cohead of Projects and International Arbitration areas. She is a dual-qualified lawyer in New York and Peru.
Miguel Mena
Miguel Mena
Partner and head of the Aviation practice area. Miguel specialises on Aviation and International Economic Law.
Miguel Viale
Miguel Viale
Partner at CMS Grau. Miguel specialises on Banking, Finance and Capital Markets, Corporate law and Mergers & Acquisitions.
Milica Popović
Milica Popović
Milica Popović is a partner at CMS Belgrade with extensive experience in legal work in the Balkan region. She is the Head of the CMS Banking and Finance teams in Belgrade and in Podgorica. She also heads the CMS office in Podgorica.
Milica Popović
Milica Popović
Milica Popović has been a partner at CMS Belgrade since 2013 and has more than 22 years of experience in legal work in the Balkan region. She is the Head of the CMS Banking and Finance teams in Belgrade and in Podgorica and heads the CMS office in Podgorica.
Mourad Nabil Abdessemed
Mourad Nabil Abdessemed
Head of the firm’s Algerian Tax department. He is specialised in consulting and litigation, in international as well as in Algerian taxation.
Nathalie Pétrignet
Nathalie Pétrignet
Partner in EU, Competition & distribution. She is highly involved in national and EU competition law, restrictive practices and commercial negotiations, and distribution strategy, as well as in the law of sales promotions and advertising. A large number of her clients are leading businesses in their sectors, for whom compatibility between their commercial policy and competition law is an important strategic issue. She has often acted on vertical agreement matters in relation to recommended prices.Lecturer at University Paris Saclay in competition law (Master 2 Droit de la concurrence et des contrats).
Nedeljko Velisavljević
Nedeljko Velisavljević
Nedeljko Velisavljević is partner at CMS Belgrade who heads the CMS Dispute Resolution team for Serbia and Montenegro and is recognised as one of the leading litigation lawyers in Serbia.
Nedžida Salihović-Whalen
Nedžida Salihović-Whalen
Nedžida Salihović-Whalen is CEE partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz. She has over 20 years of experience in advising clients on corporate, M&A, commercial, banking and employment matters as well as experience in dispute resolution. Nedzida is experienced in setting up corporate and business structures in Bosnia and Herzegovina and regularly advises clients on the regulatory and commercial environment under Bosnian law. She also represents clients in litigation. Nedzida has an LLM from a US university and has been continuously selected as a leading lawyer in BiH. Nedžida Salihović-Whalen was a member of several international legal working groups and took part in drafting laws regarding legal and economic reforms in Bosnia and Herzegovina. She is heavily involved in major banking and finance deals, both transactional and project-based work. Her involvement ranges from supervising the deals, to advising clients on particular aspects of the transactions. Nedzida is an examiner of the Bosnia and Herzegovina Bar Exam Commission for commercial law for the last ten years.
Nestor Shimabukuro
Nestor Shimabukuro
Partner of the public law practice area. He specialises in administrative law, electricity and regulated services.
Nicolas Callies
Nicolas Callies
Nicolas Cailles joined the Employment Law Department of CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1990 and became a partner in 2001.Nicolas manages a team that provides advice and handles disputes in collective and individual labour relations and on the employment implications of strategic decisions.
Olga Belyakova
Olga Belyakova
Partner in the Commercial practice group at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang (Kyiv),Co-head of the TMC sector group in CEE
Olivier Dutheillet de Lamothe
Olivier Dutheillet de Lamothe
Partner. Olivier Dutheillet de Lamothe joined CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 2014 as Counsel with responsibility for the employment and pensions practice's Intelligence, Scientific Development and Knowledge Management Department. Olivier was made partner in 2015.
Olivier de Saint Chaffray
Olivier de Saint Chaffray
Olivier de Saint Chaffray joint CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats's Taxation Department in 1994. As an expert in tax matters, his practice focuses on providing advice (legal opinion or documents) and on litigation in the following fields: corporate taxation (day-to-day practice in direct taxation and taxation and restructuring associated with M&A, tax inspections), advice to individual clients (wealth and estate planning) and the taxation of property and the financial sector.
Olivier Kuhn
Olivier Kuhn
Partner. He is specialised in civil law, general business law, enforcement measures, and criminal business law
Pabla Gainza
Pabla Gainza
Pabla is partner and leads the Real Estate & Construction practice area. She has been active in the sector for over two decades, she is a go-to practitioner for urban planning and zoning matters, development of pipelines, electric lines and other easement matters, as well as expropriation processes and regularisation of industrial plants and other real estate assets. Pabla was a part of the team that developed a Methodology for Integrated Projects for Santiago’s Inner Circle, for the World Bank’s PNUD program. She has also provided urban legal consulting for the Metropolitan SEREMI MINVU (Regional Secretariat for Urban Development Ministry of Chile), for the modification and creation of the Santiago Metropolitan Regulation Plan, on matters related to Patrimony and Public Areas. She is highly involved in the practice of contentious administrative cases, before the various State public entities, such as the Comptroller General of the Republic, SEREMI MINVU, Health Ministry Regional Secretariat’s Office, Urban Development Division, Public Works Directorate, etc. Key clients: Antofagasta Minerals (Ferrocarril de Antofagasta a Bolivia (FCAB)), Banco Santander Chile S.A., Aki KB Minibogedas SpA., Banchile Inversiones S.A., Nevasa S.A. Administradora de Fondos, Unilever Chile S.A., Estée Lauder S.A.  (Cela Cosméticos S.A.)
Paul Smith
Paul Smith
Partner Head of the CMS Energy, Projects and Construction Group
Peter Šimo
Peter Šimo
Peter Šimo is Of Counsel at CMS in Bratislava, Head of German Desk in Bratislava and a member of the international transaction team. He has a track record of more than fifteen years acting as an advisor to international and local clients in CEE, in particular in the area of Corporate/M&A, Banking & Finance and Property transactions Peter Šimo has advised on several of the most significant corporate and financing transactions in Slovakia and the CEE region, including syndicated financings, mergers & acquisitions, cross-border mergers, private equity deals, corporate restructurings as well as day-to-day banking and corporate matters, regulatory issues and general contract matters (e.g. joint ventures, partnerships and shareholders' agreements). He advises clients from various sectors including financial institutions, insurances, real estate & construction, automotive, retail and manufacturing business. Peter Šimo also regularly performs overall project management in due diligence exercises.
Peter Huber
Peter Huber
Peter Huber is head of the International Corporate Transactions team of CMS Austria. He looks back on more than 25 years of professional experience in corporate transactions, including more than four years with major investment banks. His main areas of practice are M&A (including privatisations and public takeovers) and corporate law (including corporate governance) in Austria as well as Central and Eastern Europe. Peter Huber advises a range of major Austrian corporations and major shareholders as well as groups of shareholders on corporate transactions, restructurings, shareholders’ agreements and governance structures, including advice on legal issues resulting from shareholder activism. He also advises major private equity houses on investments and exits.
Philippe Donneaud
Philippe Donneaud
Philippe Donneaud started his career in the Taxation Department of CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats, which he joined in 1995 and where he has been a partner since 2007.He covers all aspects of direct taxation for companies and their executives, both advice and litigation, but specifically carries out his work in the property and investment capital sectors. He mainly assists his clients in the tax planning, structuring and management of their various operations.His qualifications get him regularly involved in the taxation aspects of mergers and acquisitions, corporate groups, transfer of assets and financial flows.  He regularly hosts conferences and training for Francis Lefebvre Formation et Business Immo.He is the co-author responsible for the taxation section of the book Immobilier de l’Entreprise, Ed. Economica, Collection L’immobilier en perspectives.
Philippe Grousset
Philippe Grousset
Partner in direct taxation Expert in direct taxes specialized in the following subject matters: Corporation tax; Personal income tax; Real estate and finance taxation; Tax system of semi-public companies and local authorities.
Pierre Bonneau
Pierre Bonneau
Pierre Bonneau joined the Employment Law Department of CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats in 1999 and became a partner in 2012. Pierre advises both international and French companies on collective and individual labour relations and on the employment implications of their strategic decisions, providing advice and handling disputes in the following main areas : national and international restructurings, redundancy plans, collective and individual disputes (labour relations, social security audits, etc), compensation and benefits, collective bargaining and employee representation, flexible working arrangements and the 35-hour working week, European harmonisation of human resources policies and international mobility and employment audits on mergers & acquisitions.
Pierre Carcelero
Pierre Carcelero
Pierre works specifically in the field of corporate and group taxation, with particular regard to the fiscal structuring of mergers & acquisitions and restructuring activities, group tax management and assistance with litigation proceedings, in matters of real estate taxation and for mixed-economy companies and local authorities, taxation of public-private partnerships, tax inspection procedures and tax litigation. He joined  in 2002 and became Partner in 2017.
Pierre Dedieu
Pierre Dedieu
Pierre Dedieu is a partner in CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats's International Taxation team. Pierre joined the firm in 1999 and became a partner in 2009. Pierre specialises in matters relating to international restructuring operations, real estate investments, cross-border transactions (investment income, leasing, hybrid transactions), international mobility and transfer pricing. Since 2009 he has become a leading expert on disclosure and in litigation concerning foreign assets belonging to French residents.
Pierre-Jean Douvier
Pierre-Jean Douvier
Pierre-Jean Douvier specialises in international law. He co-manages the International team. His four main areas of expertise are advice to private clients (family office, legal, regulatory, immigration law, tax issues, asset protection, restructuring of wealth, wealth transfer techniques and trusts/foundations with respect to civil law, succession, international tax litigation and tax audits, etc); property law (from both the legal and tax perspectives): purchase, restructuring/investment, management – mainly for families; Monaco: corporate, regulatory and tax law; transfer pricing/permanent establishment/effective management of entities. For 8 years, he was the only expert in European and international law registered with the French courts.
Pierre-Sébastien Thill
Pierre-Sébastien Thill
Pierre-Sébastien Thill is an expert in international taxation. Pierre-Sébastien has specialised in international taxation for 28 years, acting as an international tax partner in the firm. He co-managed the International Taxation Department comprising 15 partners and 30 associates. He regularly provides advice to international groups, focusing particularly on issues relating to M&A transactions, corporate reorganisations and the structuring of investment funds
Radivoje Petrikić
Radivoje Petrikić
CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz since 1999 (partner since 2004); managing partner of CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hasche Sigle in Serbia (2000); counsel of the Serbian Ministry of International Economic Relations; court interpreter for Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian.  
Radivoje Petrikić
Radivoje Petrikić
Radivoje Petrikić is a partner at CMS in Vienna and has been the managing partner of the Serbian CMS office in Belgrade since its establishment in 2000. As a leading expert in the fields of corporate/M&A, competition law & EU, corporate law, commercial law as well as finance and project financing, he has more than 20 years of experience in extensive commercial and M&A transactions and development projects throughout the CEE region. He has an in-depth understanding of all corporate and financial issues faced by companies operating in transitional markets. He is also an experienced advisor to regulators in these markets. Radivoje Petrikić is one of Serbia's leading M&A lawyers, leading a team that has advised on many landmark corporate and commercial law cases, as well as privatisations, in a variety of industries over the past 20 years. He has been appointed by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development as senior legal advisor on the revision of Serbian corporate law and PPP legislation
Rafał Zwierz
Rafał Zwierz
Partner heading Corporate/M&A department and Capital Markets practice at CMS Poland
Ramón Huapaya
Ramón Huapaya
Partner and head of the public law practice area. He specialises in adminsitrative law, telecom, electricity and regulated services.
Ramón Valdivieso
Ramón Valdivieso
Ramón is co-head of the Corporate/M&A practice area and leads the Technology, Media & Communications team. His practice focuses on corporate; capital markets & finance; M&A and private equity transactions, both in Chile as well as in other Latin American countries, where he has played a major part in the international expansion of various Chilean companies. In capital markets, Ramón advises issuing companies and investment banks in the issuance, registration, and placement of securities, assisting companies that enter into this market on all essential matters, ensuring transparency and timeliness in the information to the market, and continual improvement of corporate governance, securing future access to the market as a source of financing.  In this regard, Ramón has lead various public tender offers (OPA), including non-solicited takeover bids. Ramón is a well-known expert in sectors related to telecommunications and information technologies. Key clients:  Sonda S.A, Société Générale de Surveillance (SGS), Bupa S.A., Salfacorp S.A., Karün, American Tower Corp., Besalco S.A., KKR Investment Fund.
Raphaël Bordier
Raphaël Bordier
Raphaël Bordier is a partner in CMS Francis Lefebvre Avocats’s Employment Law Department. He has worked in employment law and social welfare law for more than twenty years, both advising and litigating on behalf of French and foreign companies. is focus areas include all individual and collective labour relations as well as the management of employment disputes. He has extensive experience in personnel representation and management of labour relations, as well as in the employment aspects of company transfers and restructures.
Richard Foissac
Richard Foissac
Partner in Tax.  He intervenes particularly in real estate taxation, wealth taxation, corporate taxation and is especially recognized for his expertise in tax litigation
Robert Keisler
Robert Keisler
Robert Keisler is a partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz and a member of the Public Procurement Law, Competition Law and Public Law Team. His areas of expertise include advising and representing contractors and principals from a wide variety of industries, both nationally and internationally, in the areas of public procurement law and regulatory law. He also has many years of experience in various areas of competition law, including merger control and antitrust law.
Rodolphe Olivier
Rodolphe Olivier
Partner in employment and pensions. He is mainly involved in litigation in relation to disputes pending before the employment and social security tribunals.
Rolando Cevasco
Rolando Cevasco
Partner and head of the Tax practice area. Rolando specialises in tax, foreign investment and tax litigation.
Romain Marsella
Romain Marsella
Romain is a tax specialist and works on advisory and litigation issues for French and international groups, notably in the insurance field.
Rosetta Ferrère
Rosetta Ferrère
Rosetta Ferrère is Partner in Capital Markets. She has a broad experience in advising corporate clients and financial institutions on capital market transactions, including: Debt Capital Markets, Equity Capital Markets and Structured Derivatives. Rosetta lectures regularly at universities and in seminars and she is the author of numerous articles on topics related to capital markets.
Sibylle Novak
Sibylle Novak
Sibylle Novak has been a partner at CMS since 2008 and is an expert in national and international tax law. She is among the very few law experts in Austria who are admitted to the bar (since 2006) and also certified as tax advisors (since 2002). She can draw on more than 20 years of work experience. In her work, she specialises in tax-optimising transactions, M&A, restructurings, private foundations as well as private equity and venture capital deals.
Sławomir Czerwiński
Sławomir Czerwiński
Partner in the Corporate/M&A Department and Lead Partner in the Private Equity practice
Stefan Paulmayer
Stefan Paulmayer
Stefan Paulmayer is an attorney-at-law for banking and finance law, specialising in financing, asset-backed financing (securitisation), restructuring/insolvency law, derivative transactions and (banking) supervisory law. As an expert in banking and finance, he has advised on both large (real estate) financing and large (cross-border) restructuring transactions. Another focus of his previous work is the area of bank restructuring and settlement. Most recently, he focused on the area of New Technologies such as SmartContracts and Blockchain where he is active as both legal advisor of FinTech companies as well as lecturer. Stefan Paulmayer has more than eleven years of professional experience.
Stéphane Austry
Stéphane Austry
Coordinates the tax litigation and controversy group of the firm (domestic and international tax issues). Extensive experience on international taxation, interpretation and application of tax treaties.
Stéphane Gelin
Stéphane Gelin
Stéphane Gelin is Head of the CMS Tax Group. In this position, he leads an international team of 400 tax lawyers. He specialises in international taxation and transfer pricing. He has advised French and international multinational corporations in this field for nearly thirty years. He has participated in several major projects involving the structuring of global transfer pricing, operational restructuring and the documentation of French and foreign transfer pricing. He offers his clients assistance in French and international tax litigation (specifically competent authority procedures, arbitration procedures and advance pricing agreements). He also advises clients on international financing matters, cross-border restructuring, joint ventures and acquisitions.
Steven Williams
Steven Williams
Partner Co-head of the Infrastructure, Construction and Energy Disputes Group Lawyer
Steven Wise
Steven Wise
Managing Partner, Hong Kong Rotary Public, Hong Kong
Thierry Romand
Thierry Romand
He has substantial experience in advising corporate clients on employment law issues. His expertise primarily covers the transfer and takeover of businesses, restructurings, pension plans, collective bargaining and collective dismissals. He is specialised in employment law, and especially in collective and individual labour relations and the employment implications of strategic decisions.
Thierry Granier
Thierry Granier
His practice mainly focuses on international taxation, particularly in relation to mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate reorganisations and capital markets. He has extensive expertise in tax-efficient structuring of cross-border transactions, including notably LBOs, build-up, group restructuring and real estate acquisitions.
Thomas Page
Thomas Page
Partner Head of the CMS Hotels & Leisure Group
Thomas Laumière
Thomas Laumière
Thomas Laumière is a partner in the Tax law team of CMS Francis Lefebvre.
Thomas Hamerl
Thomas Hamerl
Thomas Hamerl is an attorney-at-law for infrastructure projects & public private partnerships and a leading expert in public procurement law as well as real estate & construction. He is a specialist for national and international construction projects, infrastructure and public private partnerships as well as energy projects. He has particular expertise in national and international construction contract law, public procurement law including concessions, infrastructure-oriented dispute resolution including litigation and arbitration, real estate and energy law. Thomas Hamerl has experience in infrastructure projects for roads, railways, airports, hospitals, schools, waste collection and disposal, site remediation, power plants (PV, wind, biomass, water). He has been working as a legal consultant for around 20 years and joined CMS in 2009. He brings to the consulting practice his experience as in-house counsel of an international construction group, where he was head of the legal department in Vienna and head of the group-wide “Legal Practice Group PPP”. Prior to that, he worked for renowned Viennese law firms in Austria and Central and Eastern Europe as well as for the European Commission in Brussels.
Vincent Delage
Vincent Delage
Partner specialised in employment law and pensions. He provides advice in collective and individual labour relations as well as incentive plans and restructuring and outsourcing plans. He also advises his clients on the employment implications of their strategic decisions.
Vitaliy Radchenko
Vitaliy Radchenko
Partner, Head of Energy & Projects at CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang (Kyiv)
Vito Verna
Vito Verna
Partner and head of the Environmental Law practice group. Vito specializes in the prevention of environmental contingencies, management, Environmental Policy and Regulations as well as Social Conflicts related to Environmental matters.
Walter Gapp
Walter Gapp
Walter Gapp is an attorney-at-law who has specialized for many years in the fields of capital markets law and financial market regulation. He regularly advises on preparing issuance programmes as well as  bonds issuanceand regulatory capital instruments. He also focuses on the structuring and support of securitization transactions, new business models proposed by financial service providers, as well as giving comprehensive regulatory advice to banks, insurance companies and securities firms. Walter Gapp is repeatedly mentioned as a leading lawyer in the field of capital markets law and banking regulation, he has been described as "highly regarded" (IFLR 1000) and placed on the list of "best lawyers (banking and finance law)" (Handelsblatt 2019).
Will Dibble
Will Dibble
Partner | Co-head of the Finance Practice Group
Xavier Daluzeau
Xavier Daluzeau
Xavier Daluzeau specialises in international taxation. His main practice areas are transfer pricing, reorganisations and acquisitions: international and supply chain restructuring, transfer pricing planning and documentation, tax audit and litigation, procedures leading to the elimination of double taxation and advance pricing agreements.
Yessica Manzur
Yessica Manzur
Yessica co-heads the Tax practice and is an expert in international taxation.

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