Catégorie: Practices

Regularly advising sports event organizers (including governing bodies, sports leagues, organizing committees, promoters, professional sports clubs, marketing agencies and other intermediaries), players and companies in the sports industry, J&A’s sports law team assists clients with sports-related transactions, litigation and arbitration.

 

Renowned for its in-depth knowledge of the sports industry, Joffe & Associés’ sports law team has French- and English-speaking lawyers in Paris, London and Los Angeles, and offers its clients international services and capabilities.

 

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The Real Estate department specialises in complex real estate structures, off-plan sales transactions, property development, commercial leases, public and private assets of EPICs (French public institutions).

 

The department also advises on construction-related issues (architect contracts, ACA, MOD contracts, public and private procurements, preventive actions, constructor guarantees/insurance).

 

It assists its clients with administrative proceedings and regulatory authorisation (compulsory impact studies, public enquiries, clearing and town planning applications, relationships with planners).

 

Finally, the department represents its clients in their disputes involving sales, leases, building and planning.

Dispute Resolution

 

Our litigation team defends our customers as early as possible, and favors alternative dispute resolution methods such as mediation and conciliation. Negotiated solutions are always considered, especially when they safeguard our clients’ commercial interests and reputation.

 

The Litigation team’s pragmatic approach to cases and its close relationship with the firm’s clients enable it to propose effective and creative strategies to best serve jointly defined objectives. Excellence and pugnacity define our practice.

 

We accompany our clients before the French and English courts in civil, commercial and criminal proceedings. Recognized for our expertise in complex and strategic litigation, we are involved in all aspects of business litigation: post-acquisition disputes, shareholder disputes, liability of directors and officers, and commercial disputes relating to competition, distribution and intellectual property law. We also have a regular practice in industrial and technological risks, new technologies, banking and finance law, and sports law.

 

In particular, our litigation lawyers can assist and advise you on: arbitration issues (French or international); corporate and management law disputes; business criminal law issues, and civil and commercial litigation; international proceedings (assistance in implementing foreign proceedings in France).

 

The International Arbitration

Our pragmatic approach to each case and our concern to work closely with our clients enable us to propose effective and creative litigation and arbitration strategies.

 

Our litigation team defends clients as early as possible, giving priority to alternative dispute resolution methods such as mediation and conciliation. The search for negotiated solutions, particularly when they preserve our clients’ commercial interests and reputation, is always considered.

 

We assist our clients before the French, English and American courts in support of arbitration proceedings. Recognized for our complex and strategic arbitration practice, we act in all areas of business law: post-acquisition disputes, shareholder disputes, maritime disputes, commercial disputes relating to competition, distribution and intellectual property law. We also have a regular practice in industrial and technological risks, new technologies, banking and finance law, and sports law.

 

The arbitration team represents clients in ad hoc arbitration proceedings (UNCITRAL) or under the rules of institutions such as the ICC (International Chamber of Commerce), the LCIA (London Court of International Arbitration) and the LMAA (London Maritime Arbitrators Association).

Our litigation lawyers can assist and advise you on shipping disputes, business-to-business disputes, sports-related disputes and commercial litigation.

The Firm’s Employment department provides both advisory and litigation services. It acts on all aspects of employment law: individual working relationships, relationships with staff representation bodies, group negotiations, reorganisation, health and safety at work, pay and benefits, employee saving plans and share ownership, social security, international mobility, criminal employment law, etc.

 

The integration of this department into a commercial law firm that handles all the issues faced by a company favours communication with the other departments and enables cases to be handled using a cross-functional approach. Our specifications in terms of quality, communication, receptiveness and responsiveness place us close to both the strategic and day-to-day HR management concerns of our clients.

 

The Employment department also offers regular training to its clients, in line with the educational and prevention policies recommended by the firm.

We advise our clients on all their commercial law issues. Our team is particularly involved in the structuring of projects, but also in the contractualization of relationships and in the pre-litigation, amicable and/or judicial resolution of any disputes.

 

Our Commercial Department team demonstrates its relevance through its ability to handle, in a fully integrated way, all our clients’ queries in the fields of contract law, consumer law, IT law, intellectual property law, real estate law, construction law, competition law and personal data protection.

 

Our support extends to our customers’ international development and the complex contractual agreements (joint ventures or otherwise) they enter into with their partners. We act for a variety of companies, from emerging players to large, well-established groups, in support of their economic and commercial activities, in France and abroad.

The firm’s corporate law team is made up of lawyers specializing in (i) mergers & acquisitions, divestments, capital partnerships, structuring and restructuring as part of projects to set up, merge and develop companies and major groups, (ii) private equity (venture capital, development capital), acquisition optimization mechanisms (LBO/MBO/OBO), shareholders’ agreements, capital markets, (iii) initial public offerings (IPOs) or public offerings, (iv) financing/refinancing, or (v) legal audits.

 

Our “Corporate, M&A, Private Equity” activity is carried out in close collaboration with the firm’s other teams (VDD, due diligence, merger control, structuring and the social and tax consequences of our operations, etc.).

 

The team is also involved in day-to-day or governance issues (assistance with legal secretarial support), legal support (general corporate law, stock market law), drafting corporate documents (company formations, shareholders’ meetings, approval of accounts, changes of directors or registered office, etc.), and legal watch (legal, regulatory, case law).