Yards

YARDS, a leading business Law Firm based in Paris, brings together 45 lawyers, including 13 recognised partners. We act for private equity funds, unicorn companies, tech groups and major French and international corporations. Our lawyers regularly handle complex, multi-jurisdictional matters involving high financial stakes and sensitive legal issues. We also assist families, SMEs and family-owned businesses with tailored legal and tax strategies, addressing both domestic operations and international structuring challenges.

YARDS is organized into six expert teams: Private Equity / M&A, Corporate and Transactional Tax, Financing, Employment Law, Private Clients and Family Businesses, and Business Litigation. This structure enables us to provide tailored support to a diverse clientele, ensuring that each client receives specialized counsel aligned with their unique legal needs and objectives.

YARDER, BETTER, STRONGER.

Yarder: Yards is an independent, internationally oriented business law firm. Yards is a business law firm of conviction. Independent and open to the world, with a unique way of doing business.

Our uniqueness is based on the excellence of our multiple and shared advice. Close to our clients, agile and creative to provide tailor-made and sustainable support.

Better:go further, open new horizons, change the game

Our uniqueness lies in our complementary skills and the excellence of our tailored advice. Because the end of the world is now within reach, our expertise accompanies our clients internationally. We work closely with many partner firms, allowing us to be at the client’s side in the projects abroad. Depending on the economic, legal and/or fiscal context our clients are facing, we choose the best experts in each specialty in order to act on all the performance levers. We build with our clients. We act for our clients. We succeed together.

Stronger: making our clients stronger

Our teams are collectively committed to supporting our clients in an agile and creative manner, working closely with them and their needs.

Our teams are the foundation of our client's success. Motivated and passionate, our Experts all have a high level of commitment. Entrepreneurs like them, aware of the complexity of their challenges, each of them provides clients with the operational support required. We work in teams to master every aspect of client’s issues while adapting to their schedule, their constraints and their expectations.

Yards has six areas of expertise:

1. M&A/Private Equity: LBO, fund raising, acquisition or sale of companies or assets
2. Financing: senior debt, mezzanine debt, refinancing
3. Corporate and Transactional taxes: structuring, tax audit, tax compliance, management packages, international tax
4. Employment law: restructuring, difficulties with employees, settlement of disputes, employment contracts
5. Private clients and family businesses, and
6. Commercial litigation.

This enables us to have a global approach for a tailor-made service.