Litigation

Litigation

Bredin Prat's team of leading litigators in France has wide experience prosecuting and defending cases before the courts at all levels, nationwide, as well as before administrative and regulatory enforcement bodies including the stock exchange authorities in France.

Bredin Prat's litigators handle a full spectrum of matters from large and complex disputes and high profile litigation to significant routine matters for its clients in a wide range of practice areas. Bredin Prat often represent its clients in corporate, commercial and securities litigation as well as shareholder actions, partnership and joint venture disputes, litigation with respect to takeovers and mergers and matters related to the civil liabilities of corporate directors and executives.

In close collaboration with the firm's M&A lawyers, Bredin Prat's litigators have been involved in most of the large contested takeovers of recent years (Aventis/Sanofi-Synthélabo, BNP/Paribas, Elf/Total, Schneider/Legrand, Promodès/Casino).

Bredin Prat also has broad experience in managing multinational disputes throughout Europe, the Middle East, Africa and the Americas where the firm works in close cooperation with local leading independent law firms, including its Best Friends, to ensure that the best local advice and assistance is provided to clients (See International).

The services that our litigators offer include traditional representation managing all aspects of cases before the French courts at all levels, including pre-trial attachment and other interlocutory proceedings, insolvency proceedings, enforcement actions as well as providing international judicial assistance in cross-border disputes.