Offering a comprehensive service in assisting clients with protecting, exploiting, and managing IP portfolios, the team at NEXT AVOCATS works for a variety of multinational businesses, individuals, employee associations, and brands across sectors including media, fashion design, music production, live entertainment, and event communication consulting. Noted by clients for their ‘expert advice and responsiveness’, the team is led by Paris-based Stéphanie Foulgoc and Étienne Papin. Foulgoc specialises in digital, IT, and creative law, and handles the acquisition of rights for original music and the negotiation of broadcasting rights, as well as negotiating image usage authorisations. Papin specialises in IT projects related to entertainment law and personal data.
Testimonials
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'We believe that the firm displays a good knowledge of the cultural and creative industries on intellectual property issues. In our eyes, the firm is among the best on the market. Before consulting it, it was recommended to us by colleagues, which reinforced our choice.'
'The team proved to be efficient as expected without, however, demonstrating innovation in the strict sense.’
Key clients
- Ekhoscènes
- Moment Factory
Work highlights
- Assisted Syndicat National du Théâtre Privé with drafting all of its standard contracts.
- Assisted Ekhoscènes (French leading employers' union representing the private live shows industry) with claiming the adoption of a neighbouring right to copyright for the benefit of live shows organisers.