Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP is a particularly strong name for corporate, M&A and shareholders’ conflicts litigation where the team regularly acts for large companies. Its ability also extends to commercial litigation and complex matters raising combined criminal and civil law and international aspects. Leading companies and investment funds are clients. The team is led by Dominique Mondoloni and Grégoire Bertrou and includes special European counsel Sophie-Jeanne Laroche, who is another key contributor.
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Testimonials
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‘The team is united, efficient and responsive. Always attentive, it knows how to resolve events with thought and accuracy.’
‘Sophie-Jeanne Laroche: good quality listening, finesse of analyses, great efficiency, elegance and essential presence.’
‘The commercial litigation department is particularly close-knit between partners, counsels and collaborators. Communication is perfectly fluid, which allows effective strategies to be developed very quickly without wasting time. The team also knows how to adapt its explanations to the technical level of its interlocutors, which is particularly appreciable.’
‘Sophie-Jeanne Laroche: her intellectual power guarantees a creativity rare among lawyers, but a creativity which is always at the service of efficiency. She wonderfully combines the scientific demands of reasoning and tactical thinking in the management of litigation.’
‘Very competent and very responsive.
‘Sophie-Jeanne Laroche has advanced technical skills and great analytical finesse. She also has very good interpersonal skills and keeps her clients precisely informed of each development in a file. She is also always ready to discuss strategy.’
‘The team is very dynamic and involved in finding pragmatic solutions for its clients.’
‘This team is very good technically and is able to help build a strategy, support clients in difficult negotiations to find an amicable but also solid resolution in the face of an aggressive opponent in a dispute.’
‘Sophie-Jeanne Laroche is very responsive and available. She is able to advise on developments in case law that could impact her clients' activity.’
Key clients
- National Bank of Canada
- Transdev
- Besix/Icade
- Air France
- Air France-KLM
- Arkema
- Carl Bayard
- Agence Française de Développement
- Sportfive
- Lagardère Travel Retail
- Cellectis
- Naval Group
- Gare du Nord 2024
- Brainbox
Work highlights
- Auccessfully advised Transdev, as former shareholder of SNCM, on a dispute concerning SNCM’s partnership with STEF.
- Advising Arkema on a class action brought against the company by over 250 employees and their unions in the context of Arkema’s sale to KemOne of one of its chemical production units in France.
- Advisingt AFD in connection with proceedings brought by creditors of foreign sovereigns to attach sums paid by AFD pursuant to aid packages provided pursuant to France’s international development policy.
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Practice head
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Grégoire Bertrou, Dominique Mondoloni