Based in Paris and Orléans, the insurance practice at boutique firm Preel Hecquet Payet-Godel PHPG Avocats focuses primarily on litigation. The team represents both large insurers and industrial groups, with experience across a wide range of industrial risks, product liability and construction-related claims. Co-founding partners Françoise Hecquet and Jean-Baptiste Payet-Godel lead the team with Charlotte Roger and Romain Bruillard.

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Testimonials

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  • ‘Reliability is the word that best characterizes this team, as well as the quality of its network (lawyers, experts, etc.) at the national level and its great diversity of technical skills.’

  • ‘Our lawyer is Jean-Baptiste Payet-Godel. He has our complete confidence. We know that our interests will be defended to the best of his ability when a case is entrusted to him.’

  • ‘The PHPG firm offers a diversity of lawyer profiles that allows them to cover all the legal issues that I may encounter in my role. This firm offers good follow-up and is available via several channels (such as emails and social networks). It also organizes meetings that allow presentations to be made by specialists on the subject, outside the firm.’

  • ‘Jean-Baptiste Payet-Godel is an excellent lawyer, who brings in addition to his legal knowledge, a very good strategic management of the files entrusted to him. Romain Bruillard has a very sharp perspective in insurance matters and handles all follow-up and communication.’

  • ‘Charlotte Roger stands out for her legal skills and openness to discussion.’

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Françoise Hecquet, Jean-Baptiste Payet-Godel, Charlotte Roger, Romain Bruillard

Other key lawyers

Agnès Bruneval