Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP particularly stands out for its ability to handle a range of complex disputes, spanning commercial, corporate, securities and regulatory matters. The team acts for a prominent client base, comprising many leading corporations, as well as investment funds and some banks. It is involved in several strategic cases, notably concerning the validity of commercial clauses relating to the telecoms sector and a follow-on antitrust case. The team is also capable of dealing with mass claims and has recently been retained to assist with a sensitive individual employment law dispute. Other examples of the team's varied caseload include tackling new issues pertaining to trade secret and IT data access. The practice is jointly headed by Stéphane Bénouville, Dimitri Lecat and Anne-Laure Vincent. Of note, the firm recently added strong white-collar expertise after hiring Ludovic Malgrain in 2023 from White & Case LLP.
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‘An innovative and highly rigorous team, with a remarkable level of excellence’.
‘Dimitri Lecat and his team are particularly involved in the files. They show high professional and interpersonal qualities’.
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Key clients
- Altice
- France Fortress (Dashang Group)
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Work highlights
- Advising two international automotive manufacturers on more than a hundred follow-on claims proceedings introduced in France following a EU Commission decision sanctioning truck manufacturers for having exchanged information on gross trucks pricing and emission rules between 1997 and 2011.
- Representing a multinational technology company in four actions filed by the Minister for Economic Affairs before the Paris Commercial Court following an investigation conducted by the DIRECCTE regarding the conditions in which distribution contracts, entered into between the client and the four French phone carriers, were negotiated.
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