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.’
'It appeared to us that the partner Étienne Papin was benevolent towards us, had good knowledge of our sector of activity as well as a concrete capacity for adaptation, which is not negligible in a sector linked to new technologies.’
‘High-performance, dynamic and available team for optimal responsiveness.’
‘Étienne Papin and Stéphanie Foulgoc: expert advice and responsiveness. Very good understanding of the challenges of our organization.'
‘Very responsive and competent team, which provides pragmatic, operational and simple advice. The intervention rates are quite reasonable and the collaboration very efficient and pleasant.’
‘Étienne Papin is super responsive, very operational and provides the client with very effective advice adapted to the issue of the question asked.'
Key clients
- Ekhoscènes
- Moment Factory
- SNDTP
- Madame Arthur
- UP Group
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.
Practice head
The lawyer(s) leading their teams.
Stéphanie Foulgoc, Étienne Papin