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CBR & Associés

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CBR & Associés houses one of the market’s best commercial litigation practices to which many leading French companies are longstanding clients. The practice regularly acts in high-stakes commercial disputes mixing complex commercial and consumer regulatory law aspects, and often opposing large corporations or involving consumer associations and regulators. The team, which is particularly active in the TMT, retail, energy, tobacco and sports sectors, is particularly versatile and also handles some corporate cases. Pierre-Olivier Chartier and Judith Vuillez are excellent.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Excellent collaboration, constant search for innovative solutions.’
  • ‘Quick to react and advise in a clear, commercial and comprehensive manner. ’
  • ‘Extraordinary quality of legal analysis, strategic vision always at the service of the client's commercial and financial interests.’
  • ‘This team is extremely responsive and has a pragmatic approach that is close to business issues. The lawyers are available and easy to contact directly. The exchanges are fluid.’
  • ‘Judith Vuillez is clever, practical , responsive and commercial with an excellent command of English. She is a pleasure to work with and extremely client friendly . Nothing is too much trouble for Judith who provides clear and prompt advice and goes out of her way to solve problems . ’
  • ‘Judith Vuillez and Guillaume Soubiran make up a fantastic team, they are each commercially astute and aware of clients’ sensitivities and need for a swift resolution. ’
  • ‘Pierre-Olivier Chartier  is a strategist, providing very fine legal analyses of issues’.
  • ‘Pierre-Olivier Chartier is one the best lawyers in commercial litigation on the Parisian market. In addition to an enormous capacity for work, a very strong responsiveness, a perfect mastery of legal procedures, he also has extremely sharp expertise in corporate law. It is better to have him on one’s side.’

Key clients

  • ADIDAS
  • ITV STUDIO
  • BACARDI MARTINI FRANCE
  • PROCTER & GAMBLE
  • TETRA MEDIA FICTION
  • TF1 PUBLICITE
  • BRITISH AMERICAN TOBACCO
  • THE RETAILORS GROUP
  • KAEFER WANNER
  • SFR
  • NEXTRADIOTV
  • SPORTSCOTV
  • TOTALENERGIES
  • PMU
  • EUROVIA/VINCICONSTRUCTION
  • EUROPCAR
  • ARAMIS
  • NRJ
  • GRDF
  • TF1
  • OVH

Work highlights

  • Representing TotalEnergies in a major dispute against EDF regarding the suspension of TotalEnergies's nuclear power supply contract for force majeure due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
  • Representing SFR in a major dispute against apple regarding the legality of contracts for the supply of the iPhone to electronic communications operators.  
  • Representing SFR in a major dispute with another mobile service provider relating to unfair competition.

Lawyers

Leading partners: Corporate and commercial litigation
The strongest partners in their field, leading on market-leading deals and endorsed by peers and clients alike.
Pierre-Olivier Chartier
CBR & Associés

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Pierre-Olivier Chartier, Judith Vuillez

Other key lawyers

Guillaume Soubiran