TALMA Dispute Resolution

Partners: Martin Pradel, Marina Matousekova, Alexandre Reynaud

Number of partners: 3

Number of other fee-earners: 7

Location: France

Languages: English, French, Italian, German, Slovak, Czech, Turkish

TALMA Dispute Resolution is a Paris-based boutique firm dedicated to the resolution of complex business disputes.​

Our firm was set up by three leading litigation and arbitration lawyers who came together as friends and decided to combine their complementary expertise to offer high value-added services to their clients. On the back of their extensive experience gained in leading French and international law firms, our partners have built up a team of ten lawyers.

We step in as soon as a crisis situation arises to prevent, mitigate risks and resolve disputes.​

Our firm offers multidisciplinary support, designed to provide a strategic and coordinated response to the challenges posed by an increasingly complex set of French and international legal standards, the overlapping and interplay of a multiplicity of laws and regulations, the globalization of trade, the criminalization and the growing role of ethics in business activities and their impact on hard and soft law.​

We act for all types of businesses, listed and non-listed, foreign and French, private and public entities, sovereign States and governments, as well as for company directors and employees, investors and political figures.​

Our practice extends to major industry sectors, with particular expertise in energy and natural resources; construction; aeronautics and defence; transport and logistics; telecommunications; luxury and hospitality; pharmaceuticals and health, banking, insurance and finance.

Our lawyers are experts in handling sensitive, complex, high-stakes and multi-jurisdictional matters with an international reach.

International Arbitration

Our international arbitration practice is co-headed by Marina Matousekova and Alexandre Reynaud.

Our team operates in all economic sectors and acts for foreign and French corporations, as well as for private individuals andforeign public entities.

We advise and represent our clients in:

• commercial arbitration; and
• investment arbitration;

whether ad hoc or institutional (ICC, LCIA, ICSID, CMAP, CCJA, etc.).

Our lawyers also act before State courts in arbitration-related proceedings concerning:

• arbitrator appointments or challenges;
• enforcement proceedings
• annulment proceedings; and
• the liability of those involved in arbitration.

Finally, our partners regularly serve as arbitrators in international commercial arbitrations.

Commercial and Corporate governance disputes

Our commercial and corporate governance disputes’ practice is co-headed by Martin Pradel and Marina Matousekova.

Our lawyers act before civil and commercial courts in all types of business-related disputes, with a particular focus on commercial and corporate governance matters.

We advise and represent businesses of all sizes, operating in France and across the world, in disputes relating to the performance or termination of contracts (sale of goods and services, agency, partnership, cooperation, joint venture, licensing of patents, know-how or trademarks, etc.).

We have significant experience in resolving disputes involving long term agreements affected by the occurrence of unforeseen events.

Our team has also developed an expert line of work advising companies in disputes with foreign entities under economic sanctions.

Our team finally offers a strong expertise in:

• shareholders’ disputes;
• disputes between partners, relating in particular to the application of a shareholders’ agreement, the sharing of profit and loss, the withdrawal or exclusion of a partner, or the transfer of shares; and
• disputes between law firm partners, including issues specific to the legal profession (ethics, unfair competition, etc.).

White-collar crime & Internal investigations

Martin Pradel heads our white-collar crime & internal investigations’ practice.

Our lawyers advise corporate companies, company directors and employees in connection with the criminal risks and liabilities that they face in the course of their business and professional activities.

They boast a cutting-edge expertise in criminal proceedings related to the misappropriation of corporate assets, fraud, extortion and money laundering, corruption, bribery and other ethical violations (influence peddling, illegal interest-taking, favoritism).

Our team has niche capabilities in proceedings relating to employer-specific ESG duties and liabilities and offers expert services in matters of harassment and psychosocial risks, involuntary manslaughter, unintentional injuries and life endangerment, risk prevention vis-à-vis employees and consumers, and damage to the environment.

Our team also has significant experience in cases involving reputation damages (defamation, insult, right of reply).

Lastly, we advise companies on triggering and implementing internal investigations, in particular after a whistleblower report has been issued. We assist companies in submitting reports when these are requested by the courts. We also assist company directors and employees in the exercise of their specific “rights of defence” in the context of internal investigations.

Enforcement proceedings

Our enforcement proceedings’ practice is co-headed by Martin Pradel and Alexandre Reynaud.

Our team acts to secure or defend against the enforcement of judgments and decisions handed down by French courts, in particular by means of:

• seizures of movable and immovable property; and
• judicial mortgages.

Our lawyers also have extensive expertise in proceedings related to the recognition and enforcement of:

• foreign court judgements and decisions; and
• international arbitration awards,

both in France and in foreign jurisdictions.

Our lawyers have a strong track-record in the enforcement of judgments against sovereign States, under the provisions of the French anti-corruption law, Sapin II.

Finally, our team coordinates the work of international teams of foreign legal counsel involved in multi-jurisdictional proceedings.

41 boulevard des Capucines, 75002 Paris

France

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