The team at Racine advises on the full range of employment matters, with a particular focus on collective and individual employment law issues, reorganisations, M&A transactions, management advisory and restructuring for distressed companies. Frédéric Broud has extensive expertise in restructuring and reorganisations, acting in advisory and contentious matters for French and international companies operating in various sectors, such as insurance, environment and services. Litigation expert Sarah Usunier and Philippe Rogez are key contacts for reorganisation and collective bargaining matters. Carla Di Fazio Perrin and Amanda Galvan also come recommended.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘Close and attentive to its customers. Responsive, offers solutions. A real partner who supports you. Adaptability and technicality.'

  • ‘Combine legal and operational precision. Very responsive.'

  • ‘Sarah Usunier demonstrates great competence and responsiveness.'

  • ‘Very high availability, responsive, great mastery of law and technical aspects, imaginative and pragmatic.'

  • ‘I have been working with Philippe Rogez and Amanda Galvan's team for a long time. I appreciate their availability, their professionalism and their advice tailored to our company. Their long-standing knowledge of our company reinforces the quality of their advice.'

  • ‘I have great confidence and respect for Philippe Rogez and Amanda Galvan. They support us on a daily basis in litigation, consulting or collective cases with great professionalism.'

  • ‘The level of service and support from the team is of a very high quality: availability, innovation in the solutions sought and proposed, listening and advice, courtesy, transparent speech. We are really supported, in real time and in complete confidence and confidentiality.'

  • ‘We particularly appreciate working with Philippe Rogez for his responsiveness, his ease in grasping, presenting and summarizing the issues and proposing a strategy to support us.'

Key clients

  • Crédit Agricole Technologies & Services
  • Crédit Agricole Auto Bank
  • Auditoire
  • Paname 24
  • Exotrail
  • VO2 Group
  • Fortuneo
  • GXO
  • Gamblin Déménagements
  • Ikea
  • Vallourec
  • Decathlon
  • LBO France
  • Sergio Rossi
  • Sogitec

Work highlights

  • Advising Sidenor—a Spanish group—on drafting the takeover bid for two of the Ascometal group’s companies—a French steel group—especially in terms of employment law, representing the takeover of 280 employees.

Lawyers

Leading partners
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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Frédéric Broud, Sarah Usunier, Philippe Rogez, Carla Di Fazio Perrin, Amanda Galvan, Guillaume Thuleau

Other key lawyers

Agatha Cruceru, Florence Terroux