Bredin Prat’s team attracts instructions for high-end litigation skills from blue-chip French and international companies as well as investment funds for high-stakes corporate litigation and shareholder conflicts. The team regularly acts in challenging litigation involving top-listed French companies in state-of-the-art commercial and financial litigation and also regularly handles antitrust follow-on and bankruptcy-related work. It has been retained recently to act in one of the country's first judicial recourses initiated on the basis of France’s still recent duty of vigilance law. The practice is led Sébastien Prat, Jean-Daniel Bretzner, Florian Bouaziz and Eve Duminy, with counsels Calmann Bellity and Tom Vauthier providing further support.
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- ‘Jean-Daniel Bretzner has an encyclopedic knowledge of many areas of law which is extremely valuable in putting risks into perspective and contributing to informed decision-making. He also has a real ability to innovate in procedural strategies and to fight to the end for his clients. His colleagues are also of excellent quality.’
‘Extremely strong team, smart, responsive, clear thinking, clear communication and very proactive. The team is quick to understand issues and provides sensible and timely advice.’
‘Ève Duminy, Jean-Daniel Bretzner and Tom Vauthier are very smart and clearly know procedures and best practices, are quick to assess and analyse information and relay it to clients.’
‘The firm is a true litigation powerhouse. The team has excellent technical and writing skills and looks deep into legal issues.’
‘Florian Bouaziz is an excellent litigation partner.’
‘Extensive experience, significant strength, very high writing and litigation management skills.’
‘Florian Bouaziz: excellent for shareholder conflicts, stock market law, liability of directors; accustomed to summary proceedings and long-term cases. Jean-Daniel Bretzner is very good and a specialist in unfair competition and civil and commercial procedure with a lot of experience. Ève Duminy: brilliant in high-stakes litigation.’
Key clients
- Air Liquide
- Airbnb
- Altarea
- beIN
- Christian Dior Couture/LVMH
- DAF
- Danone
- Edenred
- EDF
- Filmed
- Foncia
- Groupe Atlantic
- Ineos
- JC Decaux
- Lactalis
- Nike
- NJJ
- Schneider Electric
- Transition
Work highlights
- Assisting Group Atlantic in the context of a litigation between shareholders.
- Advising the French luxury fashion brand, Dior, in connection with a multijurisdictional litigation concerning the breach of a worldwide exclusive license agreement and unauthorised sales operations.
- Advising NJJ press (a company controlled by Xavier Niel) in connection with the composition of the capital of the controlling holding company of Le Monde group.
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Didier Martin, Jean-Daniel Bretzner, Florian Bouaziz, Sébastien Prat, Ève Duminy