Racine's team is kept busy acting for several leading companies, notably in the utilities and luxury good sectors, SMEs, investment funds and senior executives and dealing with a wide array of disputes, spanning M&A, financial and commercial litigation and including high-stakes M&A cases. The team also handles some product liability cases and shows strong ability in dealing with civil liability cases linked to insolvency proceedings. Practice head Bruno Cavalié is highly regarded. Sandra Graslin-Latour, antitrust and distribution expert Valérie Ledoux and insolvency specialist Laurent Jourdan are other key names.
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- ‘High-level competence and availability. Comprehensive skills, use of the best technologies available on the market, unparalleled collaboration, adaptability to all professions and all sectors of activity.’
- ‘Bruno Cavalié: the best, exceptional skills and experience, exceptional listening skills, innovative solution, exceptional advice.'
- ‘A very good team: engaged, forward-thinking and on the ball. Excellent engagement with clients, even in the most challenging situations.’
- ‘Diversity of profiles and skills. Ability to mobilize different skills depending on the nature of the legal subject, Sense of customer follow-up. Creation of interpersonal relationships.’
- ‘Bruno Cavalié: great business sense, finesse of the strategic approach, quality of recommendations, very good oral skills’.
- ‘Team very focused on the client's activity and strategy. Original and effective solutions.’
- ‘Valérie Ledoux: good mastery of subjects, great sense of customer service, ’
Key clients
- CERI
- Groupe Lavorel
- Suez
- Achadis (Adeo Group)
- Degroof Pertercam SA
- Labini Investments Limited
- Le Nouveau Monde
- Frantz Yvelin (former head of Aigle Azur)
Work highlights
- Assisting Degroof Petercam Belgian bank in a lawsuit pertaining to a loan.
- Advising Mr. Frantz Yvelin, the former manager of the airline company Aigle Azur, in a liability action for insufficiency of assets initiated by the liquidators of the airline company.
- Advising Achadis in the appeal procedure initiated by Courtaboeuf Ventures against the judgment of the Commercial Court of Paris dismissing all of its claims.
Lawyers
Leading partners: Corporate and commercial litigation
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Practice head
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Bruno Cavalié