Gide Loyrette Nouel, Paris Office, Global

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Firm Details:

Senior Partner: Frédéric Nouel

Managing Partner: Jean-François Levraud

Number of partners worldwide: 120

Number of other lawyers worldwide: 500

International offices: 11

Firm Overview:

Gide is a leading international law firm and the first to have originated in France. Founded in Paris in 1920, today Gide operates from 11 offices across Europe, Asia, North Africa and in the United States. The firm has some 500 lawyers drawn from 35 different nationalities.

Main Areas of Practice:

Gide is a full-service international firm. Its areas of expertise include: arbitration; banking and finance; bankruptcy/insolvency; capital markets; competition and international trade; compliance and corporate investigations; criminal and commercial litigation; data protection; dispute resolution; employment; energy; healthcare and life sciences; insurance, industrial risk and transport; intellectual property; technology, media and telecommunications; mergers and acquisitions/corporate law; private equity; projects (finance and infrastructure); public law and environment; real estate transactions and financing; sports law; tax.

Organised into international practice groups, each specialising in a specific area of business law, Gide can draw on a veritable pool of market-recognised specialists who can act on all kinds of cases. The firm is in a position to set up task forces comprising legal and sector experts to best serve the needs of its clients. In line with its pioneering spirit and ambition to be a reference law firm as regards innovation, the firm can draw on the expertise of Gide 255 team dedicated to offering strategic, legal and regulatory advice on all matters related to its clients' digital transformation.

The recognised know-how of all Gide teams as regards business law, combined with the comprehensive experience of this new team on all challenges pertaining to digital transformation, together enable the firm to offer its clients a unique tool to help decision-making processes in a context that is disrupted by the advent of breakthrough technologies.

Clients:

Gide acts for a wide range of private and public clients, including multinational corporations, midcaps, local authorities, international institutions, sovereign states and start-ups.

International Work:

With over 200 lawyers working outside France, Gide has a truly international presence including in New York and London where its American and British partners cover all aspects of US and English law and, in particular, international financing transactions.

The firm has a long standing full-service presence in a number of countries where the legal system is based on Roman-Germanic principles and in particular in Brussels, Central and Eastern Europe (offices in Poland and Turkey), Asia (two offices in China) and North Africa (three offices in Algeria, Morocco and Tunisia).

Each one of the firm’s offices is fully integrated in its cultural, legal, economic and political context and maintains close relations with the local administrations and agencies, the key players in the market, and the international organisations and financial institutions.

The firm regularly works in close co-operation with leading law firms in the countries where it does not have offices and is a member of several international legal networks (including the European Network together with Chiomenti, Cuatrecasas and Gleiss Lutz, and Lex Mundi).

Gide is widely regarded as a key player throughout Africa, having advised a broad, blue-chip client base on a range of complex and challenging transactions for some 50 years. Its experience and expertise extend across the entire continent. Gide has recently increased its reach on the continent with the signature of a strategic co-operation agreement with the African leading law firm Bowmans.

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