Orrick is entrusted to deal with a diverse range of cases including major debt restructuring and insolvency proceedings and corporate disputes. The team’s caseload also regularly includes one-of-a-kind disputes and extends to criminal proceedings and compliance and risk prevention. Leading French and international companies as well as investment funds are among its clients. The practice is led by Frédéric Lalance and includes the highly experienced Jean-Pierre Martel, as well as associates Grégoire Piat and Amaury Ginet.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Remarkable cohesion and coordination between the lawyers, consistent quality of the lawyers, excellent strategic sense and great reliability.’
‘Frédéric Lalance, exceptional leader of the team, real role model.’
‘Frédéric Lalance, for the clarity of his advice and his answers, and his ability to guide the client in their choices’
‘Very responsive team.’
‘A very strong and capable team, great strategic vision and attention to detail, excellent familiarity with dispute resolution practices in France.’
‘Frédéric Lalance is an exceptional partner, very knowledgeable and client friendly. Grégoire Piat, senior associate, is extremely diligent and bright.’
‘Strong responsiveness. Very reliable skills/expertise.’
‘Frédéric Lalance and Grégoire Piat are very competent, attentive, show good case management under pressure and with high stakes.’
Key clients
- Air Liquide
- Anchorage
- Arcole Industries
- Boussard & Gavaudan
- Bpifrance
- Bureau Veritas
- Carmignac Gestion
- Consortium de Réalisation
- Coriolis
- Crédit Agricole
- Diane Wildenstein
- DNCA
- Dogan Holding / Sabanci Holding A.S. / Limak Yatirim Enerji Üretim Isletme Hizm
- Eiffel Investment Group
- Elliott
- ENEL
- Etablissements Peugeot Frères
- Kosmos
- L’Oréal
- Natixis
- Nvidia
- Officiis Properties
- Opel Bank
- Production Resources Group
- PwC
- Rothschild & Co
- Schelcher Prince Gestion
- SFR
- Sonos
- Syma
- 3i Infrastructures
Work highlights
- Representing 15 of the more than 50 defendants – members of families owning the most powerful groups of companies in the Turkish economy (in the energy, telecommunications, media and construction sectors) – against allegations of spoliation.
- Representing the Consortium de Réalisation (CDR) in the Adidas case against Bernard Tapie, his group of companies and their liquidators, in order to enforce the Paris Court of Appeal decision of December 3, 2015, confirmed by the Supreme Court in May 2017, ordering to repay €404 million plus arbitration costs and interests.
- Assisting 5 investment funds (Anchorage, Boussard & Gavaudan, Carmignac Gestion, Eiffel Investment Group and Schelcher Prince Gestion) in the numerous disputes initiated by a few unsatisfied creditors and shareholders against the financial safeguarding plan of ORPEA, an elderly care company.
Lawyers
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Grégoire Piat
OrrickLeading individuals: Corporate and commercial litigation
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Frédéric Lalance
OrrickPractice head
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Frédéric Lalance