Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier
Darrois Villey Maillot Brochier is a highly established name in the field of commercial and corporation litigation, retained by many of France’s leading companies as well as international companies and investment funds to assist with their most challenging cases. The team regularly acts in several of France’s most high-profile commercial disputes including in the telecoms and retail sectors. The team’s corporate and M&A litigation know-how, which perfectly matches the firm’s top M&A practice, also ranks among the elite in that area, while its ability extends to follow-on damages claims, product liability and insolvency-related cases. The team is headed by Cyril Bonan and includes Paris bar authority Jean-Michel Darrois, and the highly regarded Matthieu Brochier, Nicolas Mennesson and Julie Pasternak.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Competent, efficient team. ’
- ‘Excellent team, effectiveness of legal argument.’
- ‘Very complete team, excellent in stock-market litigation, commercial litigation and business criminal litigation. Very good knowledge of the courts. One of the best teams on the market. Jean-Michel Darrois is a priceless asset given his analytical finesse and his aura in the judiciary.’
- ‘Very strong intellectually, strategically savvy, deliver excellent results and handle clients brilliantly. ’
- ‘Matthieu Brochier - top level, classy, sober and efficient. Excellent knowledge of the economic world and its stakeholders.’
- ‘It is a team of excellence, perfectly structured, capable of managing even the most complex disputes in an emergency. Impeccable in every way.’
- ‘Matthieu Brochier: great mastery of litigation and criminal law issues, impeccable ethics, great technical mastery and available.’
- ‘One of the best Parisian litigation teams.’
Key clients
- Abénex
- bioMérieux
- Bouygues Telecom
- Brad Pitt
- CNAJMJ
- Cafeyn
- Capgemini
- Colgate-Palmolive
- Crédit agricole
- Danone
- EDF
- Fairbanks
- Kelkoo
- Kering
- Korian
- Laboratoires Filorga Cosmétiques
- Lagardère SA
- NRJ
- Pari Mutuel Urbain (PMU)
- Roquette Frères
- Safilo
- Vivendi
- Webedia
Work highlights
- Acting for Bouygues Telecom in its appeal against a ruling of the Paris Commercial Court awarding Free Mobile €308 million in damages as part of a series of disputes brought by Free Mobile against its competitors and their so-called "subsidised" smartphones.
- Successfully represented Vivendi in a French class action before the Paris commercial court (“Tribunal de commerce de Paris”) for compensation for a stock market loss of more than 2 billion euros claimed by a hundred investment funds and institutional investors.
- Advised Daimler in several actions brought before French courts by alleged victims of the truck cartel.
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Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Cyril Bonan