Veil Jourde

Fostering your growth, Dealing with your legal challenges, Defending your interest

Veil Jourde is a major business law firm in France and abroad

Whether you are a listed or non-listed company, a financial player an entrepreneur or a top executive, we have been committed to supporting you projects and defending you interests for over 30 years.

Since it was founded in 1990, on the joint initiative of Georges Jourde and Jean Veil, the firm has built its reputation on the blend of complex litigation and M&A advisory services.

Today, our multi-disciplinary teams of over 70 lawyers rely on this dual approach to ensure that your cases are dealt with in a unique way.

The stability of this approach has enabled the firm to build on its consolidated experience and recognised expertise and to rank among the leading French law firms.

Expertise & Practice areas:

Litigation: The Litigation and Dispute resolution is the key and historic activity of Veil Jourde. Its practice concerns civil and commercial litigation, white-collar crime, M&A related litigation, financial files, shareholders’ conflicts, stock exchange litigation, regulation authorities (AMF...), contracts, liability, distribution law - n particular selective distribution & trademarks-, arbitration, mediation, multi-juridictionnal files. Veil Jourde counts per year about 350 new litigation cases, complex and often cross-cuttings (including several aspects of law).

M&A - Private Equity: The M&A team are principally recognized for its ability to handle all sorts of transactions and to provide innovative and business oriented solutions. The department is also known for its expertise in complex and delicate transactions with litigation potential. Recognized in the field of securities law, industrial M&A and private equity, the department is regularly involved in all types of transactions, including: Disposals and acquisitions of listed and unlisted companies, public offerings, LBO, Venture capital, financing and refinancing deals, corporate restructuring, partial contributions of assets, corporate law and legal monitoring of listed companies, corporate governance...

Employment: The team provides social law as expertise as a daily support to companies in the management of their social relations and in the implementation of technical legal operations (restructuring, professional elections...). It works in support of operations (merger-acquisition, LBO, etc.) in order to highlight the social aspects and anticipate the social consequences of these operations.

Restructuring: The restructuring and insolvency proceedings practice is an historical activity of the firm. The firm has been invested in this activity since the beginning of the 90’s, ithas been supported all the trends of the area and has been consulted on all the complex matters seen in Paris. The partners and their teams are very active and very renowned, both with the companies and the receivers or the courts. Its strong reputation is also due to an excellent knowledge of the market’s players: commercial courts, judicial receivers and creditors representatives, financial experts, auditors, transitional managers…

Tax law: The tax team advises and assists a clientele of companies, French or foreign, regardless of their field of activity, on the tax implications of their operations. Lawyers intervene on the transactions of disposals or acquisitions, LBO and prior or subsequent restructurings. In particular, it provides expertise in the structuring, both national and international, of financial flows within groups and, where appropriate, in the negotiation and obtaining of tax approvals. The team assists managers in adjustments, assistance to taxation control and audits, tax disputes (proceedings before administrative courts in particular) and on wealth tax planning.

Real Estate - Urban Planning - Environment : With a team of lawyers with a wide range of skills, we advise all players in the real estate sector, including investors, investment funds, property companies, developers and planners, as well as users, on the development of their real estate projects. We also work with local authorities.With a team trained in both private and public law, we can provide relevant expertise in advice and litigation before the courts and administrative tribunals.

Finance: The Finance team acts for lenders or borrowers clients, but also in support of the M&A, private equity, tax, real estate and restructuring teamsdepartment in its field of expertise:Structured finance (acquisition finance, project finance and real estate finance) ; Factoring and other working capital financing ; Debt restructuring ; Regulatory aspects of banking and financial activities ; Payment services. The Financing team has also developed an innovative experience in alternative currencies.

Intellectual Property, medias & new technologies: Our practice applies to all areas of intellectual property, media and new technologues law. It covers, both in advisory and in litigation, copyright and related rights, trademarks, designs and models, database and personal data rights, defamation and e-reputation.