Revenue and headcount for several of the largest international firms in Paris dropped sharply last year, amid a generally healthy and expanding market, according to new figures. The number of firms in France with at least 100 fee-earners expanded from 27 to 30 in 2014, with average revenue for the 50 largest firms growing by […]
News has surfaced Fasken Martineau will close its Paris office in November, just hours after a redundancy consultation to cut 70 jobs launched in London. A Fasken spokesperson said the office closure was ”in no way connected” to the firm’s decision to launch a redundancy consultation in its London office. Fasken’s management team made the decision […]
Gide Loyrette Nouel is set to lose another lawyer in Paris as finance partner Fernand Arsanios departs to join Reed Smith’s financial industry group. Arsanios was a local partner at Gide for over two years following his promotion in 2013. Before that, he was an associate at the firm for nine years. This news comes […]
Jones Day has hired a five-strong team of lawyers from Gide Loyrette Nouel to join the Paris office’s TMT practice. Gide TMT partner Rémy Fekete and four associates make up the team moving to Jones Day. According to a statement by Jones Day, Fekete will play a “leading role in the development of the firm’s […]
Brown Rudnick has strengthened its Paris team with the hire of partners from French firms De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés and August & Debouzy. Didier Bruère-Dawson and David Malamed are the first lateral hires for the firm in Paris since it launched there 18 months ago (16 December 2013). Malamed formerly worked with Paris head […]
A Paris employment tribunal has landed Dentons with a €60,000 damages bill after finding that the firm unlawfully made a secretary redundant immediately prior to the 2013 merger between legacy Salans and SNR Denton. Last week the tribunal handed down a summary judgment in the case, finding that the legacy firms had not followed the […]
French boutique Villey Giraud Grolleaud has made its first lateral hire since launching two years ago, picking up Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) corporate partner Frédéric Grillier. Grillier joins the firm after over a decade at HSF as a partner in the firm’s Paris corporate practice. Villey Giraud Grolleaud was founded in early 2013 by three […]
Fieldfisher is facing a €120,000 (£86,000) unfair dismissal claim brought by a former secretary in its Paris office, who claims that she was assaulted by the firm’s office managing partner on the day of her dismissal. There was a preliminary hearing in the case before an employment tribunal in Paris on Monday (13 April) with […]
McDermott Will & Emery has continued the growth of its Paris office with the hire of three private equity partners from Curtis Mallet-Prevost Colt & Mosle. The arrival of Henri Pieyre de Mandiargues, Carole Degonse and Grégoire Andrieux is the latest stage in the rapid expansion of McDermott’s Paris office since its launch in 2011 […]
Of all the major European jurisdictions, Paris saw the greatest amount of lateral hiring last year – and the trend is continuing into 2015. In the last week three international firms have made team hires in the French capital in a sign that there is continued confidence in the economy and in the flow of […]
Mayer Brown has hired two senior corporate partners for its Paris office, including Davis Polk & Wardwell’s first-ever non-US qualified hire Arnaud Pérès. Pérès is joining Mayer Brown alongside former colleague Jean-François Louit. Pérès joined Davis Polk in 2005 from Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he was co-head of French M&A (18 July 2005). He was […]
Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co has added an infrastructure and projects team from Watson Farley & Williams (WFW) to its Paris office, giving it the ability to compete for francophone African deals. Partners Jérôme Pentecoste and Emmanuel Paillard have brought associates Julie Vuagnoux and Paul Peyret and assistant Sonia Gomez with them to Wragge Lawrence […]