Company Law – M&A – Private Equity
Rankings and awards
Top firm
- Distribution law - 2020
Strong reputation
- Merger control - 2020
- Antitrust - 2020
Top firm
- France (Centre - Pays de la Loire - Bretagne) - 2020
Excellent
- France (Aquitaine - Limousin - Poitou-Charentes - Occitanie) - 2020
Strong reputation
- Restructuring, social plan & litigation - 2019
- Collective bargaining and employment relations - 2019
- Litigation & Criminal Law related to Employment - 2019
- France (Auvergne - Rhône - Alpes) - 2020
Established practice
- Private wealth taxation - 2019
Excellent
- Administrative contracts & litigation - 2019
Strong reputation
- Territorial authorities & mixed economy - 2019
- Private Public Partnership contracts : structuration - mid cap - 2020
Established practice
- Urban planning and development - 2020
Excellent
- Transactions up to 75M€ - 2019
Excellent
- Real property sale litigation - 2019
- Leases law - 2019
Excellent
- Advising mid-cap companies and their shareholders - 2020
Strong reputation
- Capital development operations - 2019
- LBO lower mid & small-cap operations - 2019
Established practice
- Fund structuring - 2019
Strong reputation
- Commercial litigation - 2019
Strong reputation
- Construction litigation (including insurance) - 2020
Established practice
- Legal advice & contract (markets and construction work) - 2020
- Real estate development - 2020
Strong reputation
- Patent litigation - 2019-2020
- Trademark, design and pattern litigation 2019-2020
- Filing of trademarks or designs and patterns - 2019
Strong reputation
- Social security - 2019
Established practice
- Social management of M&A and social audit - 2019
Strong reputation
- Industrial risks and insurances litigation - 2019
- Claims and ground transportation (road and rail) - 2019
Excellent
- IT, software, and digital projects - 2019-2020
Strong reputation
- Internet - 2019-2020
- Personal data - 2019-2020
Legal 500
Tier 1
- Cornet Vincent Ségurel ranks among France's top regional firms. Originally started in Nantes, the firm also has offices in Paris, Rennes, Lille, Bordeaux and Lyon and now totals some 160 lawyers who provide a complete range of expertise. SMEs and large corporations are clients.
Tier 3 - 2019
- Cornet Vincent Ségurel's patents offering is spread across several offices in Rennes, Nantes, Lille, Bordeaux and Lyon, and handles both patent infringement matters and the transfer of intangible assets in the context of corporate transactions. Thomas Deschryver is the name to note in Lille.
Tier 4 - 2019
- Cornet Vincent Ségurel's team regularly advises banks in connection with the negotiation of corporate financing or acquisition financing transactions. The following are recommended: Bertrand Coste, Jean-Baptiste de Cabanes, Matthieu Guignard and André Watbot.
Tier 4 - 2019
- Cornet Vincent Ségurel's competition and antitrust team is spread across the country with offices in Rennes, Nantes, Lille and Bordeaux as well as the capital. With experience in both advisory and contentious mandates, the group regularly handles distribution matters such as the expansion of networks abroad on behalf of domestic clients and disputes arising from the brutal termination of contracts. Some key names to note are Thomas Deschryver and Amélie Poulain in Lille, Arthur Pierret in Nantes, and litigation specialist Sébastien Harel in Rennes.
Tier 4 - 2019
- Cornet Vincent Ségurel frequently acts for debtors and investors in insolvency proceedings. Jean-François Puget and Alexandre Cornet are praised for their ‘good technique and friendly approach’.
Tier 5 - 2019
- Cornet Vincent Ségurel assists many public sector players, including public institutions and local authorities. The activity is developed by Frédéric Marchand, Christian Naux, Christophe Pichon and Pierre-Alexis Ramaut.
