Reinhart Marville Torre

Number of partners in office: 21

Number of lawyers in office: 65

Languages:French, English, German, Spanish, Italian  

International: Our law firm is proud to be a member of the International Lawyers Network (ILN), a dynamic and non-exclusive consortium of high-quality, mid-sized law firms. This membership signifies our capability and accustomed approach to handling international cases, reflecting our commitment to providing global legal services.

Firm Overview: 

Established in 1990, Reinhart Marville Torre is an independent business law firm whose 70 lawyers provide advisory and litigation services to companies and their directors in order to support and advise them in their legal and financial strategies. Active in all areas of business law, the firm’s lawyers have developed a wealth of extensive experience which enables them to quickly establish a thorough understanding of clients’ issues and to provide them with innovative legal solutions and operational and sustainable responses.

Main Areas of Practice

Litigation & Arbitration/White collar crime: 

6 partners

■ Advising a major French actor of the energy sector in a pre-trial investigative measure relating to allegedly unfair commercial practices

■ Advising a supermarket chain in a liability action for abrupt termination of established business relations brought by a supplier

■ Advising a security and protection firm in a dispute relating to the implementation of a liability guarantee by the purchaser of the airport security activities of the group

■ Advising a Ligue 1 football Club before FIFA and the Court of Arbitration for Sport relating to the enforcement of a transfer agreement of a professional player

■ Advising American manufacturers and marketers of tissue in several actions for damages brought by companies in the retail sector following sanctions handed down by the French Competition Authority

■ Advising a consulting firm in the context of a liability-filing action in which the liquidator requests the conviction of the consulting firm as a de facto manager

■ Advising and representing a major French retail chain in litigation to protect its brand against former partners who joined a competing company, involving judicial and arbitration proceedings

Key clients: Brink’s, Burger King, FC Nantes, Fortis BNP, June Partners, LIDL, Système U, Total

Contact: Louis-Marie Absil, Antoine Dérot, Gaspard Lundwall, Jérôme Marsaudon, Jean Reinhart, Marc Susini, Alexandre Rios, Virginie Viallard

Competition law: 

1 partner

■ Merger Control: Expertise in M&A deals, notifying authorities, and negotiating preparatory clauses for deals of all sizes.

■ Anti-Competitive Practices Litigation: Strong credibility in handling fines and indemnity disputes.

■ Compliance Advisory: Ensuring lawful projects, liaising with ministries, state, and competition authorities.

■ Distribution Law: Advisory in retail industry relations.

■ State Aid Defense: Protecting state aid interests.

Contact: Alexandre Rios, Virginie Viallard

Corporate/M&A:  

4 partners

■ Advising the sellers in connection with the sale and purchase of a prominent asset and property management fund to the private equity operator of a leading French bank group

■ Advising the European leader in e-mopeds urban mobility services in relation to its Series C fund raising

■ Advising the leading European data centres operator in connection with the French aspects of its sale to a prominent American operator

■ Advising a pharmaceutical laboratory in connection with the acquisition of a significant minority stake by a prominent US investment fund

■ Advising the shareholders of an audiovisual content business on the sale of the company to a North American leader

Key clients: Cityscoot, Continental, Eurofins Scientific Group, Interxion, Lylo shareholders, Omnes Capital, Thomson Reuters

Contact: Dominique Dermerguerian, Pierre-Menno de Girard, Laurent Marville, Philippe Torre, Hadrien Bourrellis

Banking & Finance:  

1 partner

■ Advising a major growth debt provider in the framework of a Eur 10m secured bond financing of a listed biopharma company, partly composed of convertible bonds and coupled with a warrant based equity kicker

■ Advising a management company with the structuring and formation of an investment fund dedicated to co-living spaces

Key clients: Audacia, Cap Investissement SA, Christie’s, Kreos Capital

Contact: Laurent Cavallier

Tax: 

1 partner

■ Significant cross-border tax reassessment procedure for a leader in Engineering and Technology Consulting

■ Recovery of illegal withholding taxes for very significant amounts for an investment Fund

■ Litigation on a significant transfer pricing issue for a leading European pharmaceutical laboratory.

■ Legal and tax structuring of a strategic carve-out of a business of a French company (value in excess of €500m) to be acquired by private equity investors

■ Various litigation matters on interest charges deductibility before the French tax courts

■ Creation and implementation of real estate structures for a family group investor

Contact: Pierre Bonamy

Real Estate & Property:  

2 partners

■ Advising a football club in its new stadium construction project (architects’ contracts, setting up of the projects, product management)

■ Advising a real estate company on their real estate issues, in particular the negotiation and termination of commercial leases, the acquisition of real property and urban planning issues

■ Advising a leading French property company with the leasing of a 55,800 sq.m. logistics platform located in Buchères (Aube) as well as for the negotiation of the property development contract for the extension of the logistics platform

■ Advising a leading French property company with the leasing of a 30,000 sq. m. office building located in a suburb of Paris (Saint-Denis) to the greater Paris municipal authority and the conclusion of a development contract for works to be carried out in the building

Key clients: ABB, AEW Ciloger, AG2R La Mondiale, Aviva Investors Real Estate, DXC Technology, Generali Real Estate, IFF, KFC, Mc Donald’s, Wereldhave, FC Nantes

Contact: Bertrand Thouny, Fleur Gaffinel

Public:  

1 partner

■ Assisting and representation of the private operator responsible for the management and development of the bike sharing system of the Paris metropolitan area (“Vélib”) in all public law matters related to the performance of the procurement contract awarded by the transportation authority

■ Advising and assisting a European urban public transport company in several tender procedures for the award of procurement contracts by French public transport authorities

Key clients: Corsica Ferries France, Mediatransports, Moventis, Ile de France (Metropolitan Paris local government), Française de l’Energie, IrvinGQ, SEDIF

Contact: Lionel Levain

Product Liability & Industrial Risks:  

1 partner

■ Advising an industrial company in litigation relating to defects in the manufacturing of storage tanks by a UK sub-contractor. A court-ordered investigation is underway. The damages claimed are in excess of 22 million euros

■ Advising a laboratory in relation to the mass poisoning of employees due to the failure of the ventilation systems; assistance in related criminal proceedings and in managing claims from victims

Key clients: Groupama, Loxam, Sodexo, AC Environnement

Contact: Agathe Moreau

Labour:  

2 partners

■ Defense of an international group in a claim of unfair competition relating to poaching of talent executives

■ Advising international groups for implementation of significant social plan

■ Advising companies on working time organization, implementation of partial reductions in the activity during the covid crisis

Key clients: Dassault Systèmes, Geodis, L’Oréal, Manpower Group, Thalès, Tyssenkrupp Ascenseurs, Siemens

Contact: Olivier Bluche, Catherine Broussot-Morin