International & Cross-Border Transactions | Global

Clifford Chance's Paris office is renowned as one of the strongest international firms in the French market. It attracts a high-calibre client base through its market-leading position in various transactional and contentious areas and has notable appeal for handling cross-border matters. While offering a distinguished and comprehensive service, the practice is most highly rated in banking, capital markets, litigation and corporate compliance.

The Freshfields Paris team is often identified as a standout choice on the market for its capabilities in handling international and cross-border work. Offering a range of transactional and contentious services in France, the team is viewed as an excellent option for clients involved in major cross-border M&A, private equity and banking transactions as well as international arbitration, litigation and competition cases.

Linklaters' team in Paris has a strong focus on international work across a broad scope of transactional and contentious areas. Combining a strong hub of resources in France with an extensive network abroad, the firm's global reach is a key attraction, as is the close integration between its offices in Paris and London. The team is also recognised for its ability to coordinate complex mandates across multiple jurisdictions from France, with cross-border issues involving other parts of Western Europe and Africa being the major element.

White & Case has developed an outstanding full-service offering in its Paris office, which has significant appeal for international and cross-border work and impressive strength and breadth of global reach. The team is praised for having precise local-market knowledge with outstanding capabilities in leading legal matters overseas. Its ability to mobilise strong local correspondents in remote emerging economies is often noted, with construction arbitration and project finance work involving Africa a particular strength.

Recognised as a prestigious independent law firm in France, Darrois excels in cross-border transactional and contentious matters. It has maintained a reputable status in the market for high-end work and has developed strong relationships with international and multinational clients. Darrois serves clients in cross-border matters through collaborative relationships with leading firms in other jurisdictions around the world, including top independent firms in New York and London. Its ability to act both independently and cooperatively with other firms, in either lead or co-counsel roles, makes Darrois a popular choice for handing cross-border mandates, particularly for large corporations that are headquartered in France.

Gide Loyrette Nouel is an independent law firm headquartered in Paris with a network of international offices which has built up a significant international pedigree. With a team of highly reputable lawyers that has occupied a long-standing high-end position in the French market, the firm serves a large and broad array of French and international clients. Its full-service practice has a strong appeal for clients across a wide range of cross-border transactional and contentious matters.

Weil Gotshal holds an established position in the French market as a superb option for handling international matters, with a particular focus on acting for multinational private equity funds on cross-border restructuring and M&A transactions. Its clients also include large international corporations, and the team in Paris frequently guides them on complex cross-border transactions covering several jurisdictions.

Baker McKenzie offers one of the most expansive and established international footprints in the legal industry, and its global reach is frequently referred to by clients as one of its primary assets. The Paris office plays an important strategic role in the law firm's vast global network, and clients often look to practitioners in Paris to play a coordinating role and lead a team across the firm's other offices on cross-border mandates.

Hogan Lovells' Paris office is recognised as an attractive one-stop shop for handling international and cross-border work. The team offers a comprehensive service and provides strong transactional and contentious capabilities. It is significantly skilled in TMT and IP matters. Equally, the team has solid expertise in finance, energy, arbitration and litigation, which are key areas in which the Paris team adopts international roles.

As a well-reputed international law firm in Paris, Jones Day has the capacity to execute complex cross-border matters. The Paris office offers a broad spectrum of expertise comprising transactional and contentious areas. It is most highly rated in venture capital transactions and derivatives, while the firm's corporate compliance and investigations practice is also a major draw for complex international work. It typically serves major international companies and banks.

Willkie Farr's Paris office is particularly renowned as a key hub in the law firm's wider global transactions practice and holds significant appeal for clients in need of support on cross-border issues in private equity buyouts, corporate restructuring and M&A. The team has a strong track record of assisting both French multinational and international companies on outbound and inbound mandates and is best known for its popularity with private equity funds and asset managers in mid-to-large cap private equity transactions. While close cooperation with the firm's impressive US base holds significant appeal for transatlantic work, the Paris team also regularly operates in a coordinating role in conjunction with the firm's other European offices and receives praise for its well-established position in the French market.

CMS Paris is a well-respected practice which offers clients a solid range of transactional capabilities, characterised by a strong focus on capital markets work and top-ranked tax law expertise. The law firm's international appeal centres on strong domestic foundations in France coupled with a credible pan-European platform, providing clients with a valued network of offices, particularly in Central and Eastern Europe. The French office also houses a significant proportion of the firm's Africa experts, who regularly work on cross-border issues involving North Africa.

Dechert is an international law firm with strong US foundations and a Paris office with a strong reputation for its cross-border capabilities. The firm's international work in Paris is often focused towards cross-border transactions involving the life sciences sector and private equity funds with a base in France. It is also a key location for the firm's international arbitration expertise.

Dentons offers an internationally-oriented team in France joined to an extensive global network of offices. The team's combination of well-regarded capabilities in IP with international components, as well as its experience in cross-border transactions with pan-European or global elements, means it is highly rated for its work in the pharmaceutical and life sciences sector, for which Paris acts as a key hub.

DLA Piper's Paris office offers a respectable full-service offering which has great appeal for cross-border transactional and contentious matters. The team offers its varied client base a gateway to its vast network of locations worldwide, with multiple offices situated across Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific and Africa. It has vast experience acting in lead and co-counsel roles for a range of clients, including well-known French and global companies.

Mayer Brown has a strong focus on serving the financial sector globally, and its Paris office demonstrates strong international capabilities within that core area of expertise. The Paris team's particular aptitude in tax and good reputation in banking, M&A and private equity deals mean that cross-border transactions are a key area for the Paris office. The firm is known for leading high-stake outbound deals from Paris as well as acting as co-counsel on inbound work. The practice typically advises major international financial institutions and large French companies with overseas business, and they also benefit from the law firm's international network in important financial centres worldwide.

Clients view Orrick Rambaud Martel, the Parisian branch of Orrick's wider international practice, as a major success story within the law firm's global expansion, and the French practice has a rich tradition of working with international clients across a range of transactional and contentious matters. Its particular appeal lies in the combination of its strong local French law foundations coupled with well-bonded links to the firm's US teams and strong international expertise in developing economies.

Paul Hastings' Paris practice is an integral part of the law firm's overall global strength and has developed an impressive hub in France principally dedicated towards international work for banks, private equity funds and asset managers with a base in France. The team is capable of handling a mix of inbound and outbound mandates, and clients recognise that this is a key attraction of the firm, by maintaining an ability to combine international experience with a well-embedded local reputation.

Sullivan & Cromwell's Paris offering forms a core part of the law firm's international network and European strength. Operating in close collaboration with colleagues overseas, the French team is particularly well equipped to advise on sophisticated cross-border M&A deals, ECM transactions and international tax matters. French companies with interests outside of France, as well as overseas clients with operations in the jurisdiction, will benefit from the firm's highly-rated transactional capabilities.