Alerion Law Firm

About this office:

The firm is organized to respond to its clients' needs for both legal advice and litigation relevant to the management of their business (Corporate, Mergers and Acquisitions, Private equity, Tax, Labor), their company assets (Banking, Finance, Insurance, Real Estate and Construction) as well as their commercial activities (Contracts, Distribution, Competition, Consumer Protection, Advertising, Intellectual Property, Product Liability). Alerion Law Firm advises and assists its clients wit their strategic business choices, their day to day legal requirements and helps them conciliate the imperative linked to decision making and an ever changing legal environment. All lawyer report to one or several partners, and personally involved in each of the client's files.

This personal attention and high level of service is a hallmark of Alerion Law Firm's quality assurance and allows Alerion Law Firm to stay in close contact with their clients, whilst fulfilling their client expectations.

Alerion Law Firm is an International Law Firm, with the necessary expertise to advise on international transactions and litigation, in particular those concerning European countries and Asia.

Alerion Law Firm has extensive experience in Asian market, in particular Korea, China, Singapore, Vietnam and Central Asia. With one of the most developed Asian practice group in Europe, Alerion Law Firm accompanies and advises high profile international clients in their projects and business investments in Asia. It also has strong country-specific partnerships with local law firms in Asian countries and provides its clients with customized full legal services.

Corporate Law/ Mergers and acquisitions/ Private Equity: Legal and tax monitoring in Corporate law, Mergers and Acquisitions as well as in specific operations such as investments in venture capital and development capital: acquisition, business transfer, corporate partnering, restructuring operations, private equity, consultancy for directors, companies in difficulty.

Clients: Internationally renowned groups and French SMEs active in sectors as varied as finance, audiovisual, energy, property management and development companies, IT, biomedical research and pharmaceutical industry, funds and financers.

Tax Law: Both consultancy and dispute resolution, in various field if tax law: optimization of tax consequences of company restructuring operations, tax inspections, negotiations with the tax administration and tax-related disputes, optimization of the tax burden of groups and asset-related aspects, recurrent assistance with optimized management of various taxes applicable to companies. We advise in a wide range of sectors, notably for pharmaceutical laboratories, property companies, food production, tourism, audiovisual creation and private education.

Clients: Essentially of SMEs and international groups, but also company directors.

Banking and financial Law: Both disputes and the provision of non-contentious legal advice.

Clients: French and foreign credit establishments.

Property construction and Insurance: Various areas of property law: in the design of the construction operation, the accomplishment of the construction operation and the sale and management of the property operation.

Clients: Investment companies (banks, financial institutions), construction companies, property management companies, various parties involved in construction, and insurance companies.

Consumption/ Products/ Industrial risks/ Insurance: We cover the requirements of the companies, both as consultants and in disputes, with respects to their commercial or industrial activity in selling products. Prevention and management of industrial risks and in connection with legal expert examinations, in their relations with victims, partners (subcontractors), insurance companies, and the various legal contacts (notably experts).

Clients: Companies of international and national size as well as SMEs, industrial companies and service providers.

Labour Law: Consultancy with respect to employment and social security law: restructuring operations, collective bargaining and union law, working time and management of such, new information and communication technologies, individual working relations, criminal employment law, financial corporate law.

Clients: To French and foreign companies established on French territory in sectors such as iron and steel production, IT, the pharmaceutical industries and the audiovisual industry.

Competition/ Distribution intellectual Law: Consultancy for clients in relation to their commercial or industrial activity, relations with competitors, partners, professional clients and general contacts: concentration, joint ventures, competition, distribution and contracts, pricing practices, advertising, intellectual property.

Clients: Companies of international and national size and SMEs in varied fields.

Business disputes: Assistance to companies with disputes before all types and al degrees of courts or special jurisdictions (competition council, industrial disputes conciliation board, civil service tribunal) and under mediation and arbitration procedures.

Associated with: Lette & Associés S.E.N.C.R.L.; Lette Whittaker LLP; De Ryook-AJU; Yi Shi Law Firm.