LITIGATION – ARBITRATION – MEDIATION
Our team masters all dispute resolution methods in order to offer the most appropriate solution for the challenges of each case.
The Litigation – Arbitration – Mediation team assists our French and international clients, private parties and States, in all their disputes, providing direct support to legal departments and decision-makers at the heart of their operational issues.
Our lawyers have extensive experience in dispute resolution through litigation, arbitration or mediation/conciliation, particularly in the context of complex international disputes. The team strives to offer a global solution, adapted to each case, according to the jurisdiction and the resolution method relevant to the case, in order to promote the most relevant and efficient settlement approach.
Our expertise
COMMERCIAL LITIGATION
We are recognized as one of the leading independent French litigation firms in France and internationally for our strategic vision of high-stakes litigation.
Our procedural approach is adapted to each jurisdiction and is recognized in all civil and commercial courts.
Our highly experienced litigation team, with its multi-sectoral approach, is committed to rapidly developing innovative and high value-added solutions for our clients, particularly in complex cases.
We also have an extensive network of international correspondents capable of implementing our strategic vision and risk management in over 150 judgments.
COMMERCIAL AND INVESTMENT ARBITRATION
With a long-standing practice in domestic and international arbitration, our lawyers regularly advise and represent clients in the following matters:
- Post M&A
- Distribution
- Construction
- International trade law
- Private international law
- Investment Law
- Energy Law
- Mining Law
- Unified African Law
- Major infrastructure projects
Our teams have experience of the main commercial and investment arbitration centers (notably ICC, ICSID, CCJA) as well as of ad hoc arbitration and appeals and enforcement of awards.
Our lawyers also act as arbitrators (chairman, co-arbitrator, sole arbitrator and mediator) and as experts.
Jeantet has also developed a specific and recognized expertise in arbitration in targeted geographical areas, particularly in Africa, the Middle East and Eastern Europe.
MEDIATION
Our expertise and technicality in the field of amicable dispute resolution is recognized and acclaimed.
More and more commonly accepted by economic stakeholders and States, mediation and conciliation proceedings allow for the swift and confidential resolution of often complex conflict situations. These solutions have the advantage of overcoming judicial uncertainty and making the agreement reached that of the parties involved.
Our versatile and experienced teams have extensive know-how in France and abroad in the following areas:
- Amicable resolution and mediation clauses
- Appointment of mediators and drafting of mediation agreements
- Ad-hoc and institutional mediation
- Mediation at all stages of disputes and litigation
ENFORCEMENT PROCEDURES
Our team has developed a specific expertise in « enforcement procedures » to assist you upstream or in the implementation of court decisions.
Mindful of what is at stake for our clients, we have developed this critically important practice according to a simple philosophy : without enforcement, a court decision is of no value.
From the implementation of precautionary measures, through the follow-up and litigation of enforcement measures, to the enforcement of decisions issued by any court, our lawyers combine expertise and technicality to advise you and ensure the success of legal proceedings.
INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS
The Litigation - Arbitration - Mediation team assists our clients in all pre-litigation and litigation cases relating to insolvency proceedings, in particular disputes relating to the liability of managers and partners of companies undergoing insolvency proceedings.
This is done in close liaison and full collaboration with our Restructuring team.
CRIMINAL BUSINESS LAW
We advise and assist our clients, companies and managers, in France and abroad, in the context of complex economic and financial cases, particularly with regard to the penalties incurred and the reputational risk, at all stages of the proceedings :
- judicial investigations (French National financial prosecutor’s office) or administrative investigations ;
- inquiries (economic and financial section of the investigation) ;
- criminal courts or administrative authorities ( French financial markets authority, French anti-corruption agency) ;
- Alternative measures to criminal prosecution (appearance on prior recognition of guilt) or criminal settlements (judicial public interest agreements).
We assist you at all stages of criminal proceedings for offences relating to :
- Criminal tax law : tax fraud, tax laundering ;
- Offenses against integrity : corruption, influence peddling, illegal taking of interest, favoritism ;
- Corporate criminal law : misuse of corporate assets, breach of trust, fraud ;
- Criminal stock exchange law : dissemination of false or misleading information, presentation of inaccurate accounts, insider trading ;
- Criminal labor law : obstruction, illegal provision of labor, haggling, harassment, damage to employees’ health ;
- Criminal consumer law : deception, misleading commercial practices, abuse of weakness, misleading advertising ;
- Banking and financial criminal law : money laundering, misappropriation of funds and securities, illegal canvassing ;
- Criminal law of competition : non-compete, counterfeiting ;
- Environmental criminal law : pollution, waste ;
- Criminal law of the press : defamation, insult ;
- Cybercrime : attacks on automated data processing systems, industrial espionage, presidential fraud.
Arbitration: a Poker Game? – Le Monde du droit, 05/11/2022
Thierry Lauriol, Partner, and Joséphine Hage Chahine, Associate (Arbitration, Energy and Mining Department) explain arbitration as a method of dispute settlement by which the mission of deciding the dispute is entrusted by the parties to one or several persons called “arbitrators” and on its financing.
Paris | LITIGATION – ARBITRATION – MEDIATION
Paris Arbitration Week Recap: The Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard – Update and Perspectives – Arbitration blog, 04/14/2022
As part of the Paris 2022 Arbitration Week, Jeantet organized a panel discussion on “The Fair and Equitable Treatment Standard: Update and Perspective”. This article summarizes the topics presented at the panel by the speakers.
Paris, Budapest | COMMERCIAL AND INVESTMENT ARBITRATION
Xavier Pernot’s ITW «Les entreprises françaises ne sont plus laissées à elles-mêmes face aux juridictions étrangères» – L’Opinion, 03/29/2022
Interview with Xavier Pernot, our litigation partner, on the implementation by Bercy of a filtering system for foreign legal proceedings that will change the game in terms of economic sovereignty by Gille Sengès for L’Opinion.
Paris | LITIGATION – ARBITRATION – MEDIATION
France supports companies in their legal proceedings abroad – L’Agefi, 22/03/2022
Xavier Pernot, partner in charge of the litigation practice, explains the context and expectations following the publication of the SISSE guide on the sensitive information that companies can transmit in their legal proceedings abroad in an article by Bruno de Roulhac for Agefi. Publication in French
Paris | LITIGATION – ARBITRATION – MEDIATION
Vade-mecum on searches in law firms following the Confidence Act – Gazette du Palais, 03/08/2022
On 22 December last year, the Parliament adopted Law 2021-1729 on confidence in the judiciary, known as the Confidence Law, which includes provisions aimed at reinforcing the protection of lawyers’ professional secrecy, particularly in the context of searches (provisions applicable since 1 March 2022). Clarisse Moreno summarises in this article the rules applicable to searches […]
Paris | LITIGATION – ARBITRATION – MEDIATION
Enhanced secured creditors in France after cornerstone reform of security law and collective proceedings of 15 september 2021 – Butterworths Journal of International Banking and Financial Law, 01/02/2022
Jean-François Adelle reviews the reform on security interests and collective proceedings of September 15, 2021.
Paris | FINANCING | INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS
[WEBINAR] Disputes in the Luxury Hotel Sector: How to avoid them and how to manage them?
Our partners Ioana Knoll-Tudor and Stephen Walters participated in the webinar organised by the International Luxury Hotel Association on “Disputes in the Luxury Hotel Sector: How to avoid them and how to manage them?”. Watch the replay Read the article
Paris | LITIGATION – ARBITRATION – MEDIATION
Enhanced secured creditors in france after cornerstone reform of security law and collective proceedings of september 15, 2021, october 2021
Ordinances n°2021-1192 and 2021-1193 of September 15, 2021, respectively reforming security law and amending Book VI of the French Commercial Code, implement mandates of the PACTE Law of May 22, 2019[1] to: modernize security law[2], improve the articulation of security law with collective proceedings law[3] and transpose the (EU) Directive 2019/1023 of June 20, 2019[4], known as […]
Paris | INSOLVENCY PROCEEDINGS | RESTRUCTURING – LAW OF COMPANIES IN DIFFICULTY | BANK-FINANCE-REGULATORY
Professional secrecy: boom boom on searches and phone tapping! – L’Opinion, 09/21/2021
« Current legal systems have become so complex that the legal fiction of “no one is supposed to ignore the law” has become unrealistic » Is this a coincidence or the beginning of a fight that has been announced for many years? An amendment was recently voted unanimously by the deputies in the bill for […]
Paris | CRIMINAL BUSINESS LAW
Tax authorities opposed to strengthening lawyer confidentiality – Le Figaro, 14/09/2021
In the event of a search, correspondence with a client can no longer be seized. Some lawyers do not skimp on precautions when dealing with high-stakes tax cases. “The discussion a client has with a lawyer is a discussion with his legal conscience. This discussion is supposed to have never existed,” explains Jacques-Henry de Bourmont, […]
Paris | TAX | CRIMINAL BUSINESS LAW
Compliance & Business Ethics – Le Journal du Management Juridique, May-June 2021
“Our ‘Ethics, Integrity and Compliance’ practice is a pioneer in business human rights.” Philippe Portier, partner in the Corporate Finance division of Jeantet, Martine Samuelian, partner in charge of the Financial Institutions and Services division of Jeantet, François Zimeray, founding partner of Zimeray & Finelle.
Paris
Avec la mise en place du Parquet européen, le rôle de l’avocat comme défenseur des libertés individuelles plus que jamais primordial – Option Droit et Affaires, 09/06/2021
Au regard du montant annuel des escroqueries aux subventions communautaires, 3 milliards d’euros, et de celui des fraudes à la TVA au sein de l’Union européenne (UE), 50 milliards d’euros, l’entrée en vigueur imminente de l’action du Parquet européen est presque providentielle. Toutefois, si celui-ci marque une étape importante dans la construction d’une UE plus intégrée, les […]
Paris | CRIMINAL BUSINESS LAW