Catégorie: Sectors

 

Our Media & Entertainment department supports clients in all sectors related to creation, cultural industries and communication. These sectors include audiovisual, film, music, advertising, video games, sport, influencer marketing, media (press, TV, radio, digital) and publishing.

 

Our dedicated team provides both advisory and litigation services, and has developed contractual practices tailored to this sector and its constraints.

 

Our clients include games operators and service providers, event organisers, advertisers, studios, publishers, broadcast channels and networks, producers, artists and art agencies, music production companies, communications agencies and video game publishers.

 

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• Drafting and negotiating all types of creative and communications contracts;
• Litigation in relation to press offences, invasion of privacy and image rights;
• Protection of editorial and digital content;
• Validation of advertising/audiovisual content
• Combating piracy;
• Product placement regulations;
• Management of relations with copyright collective management bodies (SACEM, SDRM, etc.)
• Etc…..

Thanks to our project-based approach, we can offer industry players  a legal strategy adapted to technological and process innovations,  technology and transformation acceleration and more broadly in terms of energy transition and evolution of distribution models.

Our in-depth understanding of industry sectors together with our legal expertise allow us to provide the global support required to understand the challenges facing our clients and offer innovative solutions adapted to their needs.

 

A long-standing partner of major energy groups in France, our teams operate in both the traditional and renewable energy sectors (including hydrogen). Our cross-functional approach enables us to take an effective and responsible view of the implementation of development strategies or the reorientation of certain activities, in order to secure projects.

 

Our lawyers in public business law, real estate law, commercial contracts, financing, mergers & acquisitions and tax law combine their expertise to propose innovative and coherent solutions.

We advise our clients on their financing or refinancing operations, as part of their growth or development plans. We advise on various financial instruments: senior banking debts, mezzanine debts, unitranche, etc.

Our clients include, in addition to companies for their financing operations, investment and retail banks, private equity funds, hedge funds and other asset managers and insurance companies.

We have a strong experience in the sports sector. We work with sporting federations, leagues, organizers, sponsors, athletes and agents on all of their legal issues, both in an advisory capacity and in litigation. Our cross-functional knowledge of the sector means that we can act on both the economic and business challenges (media rights, sponsoring, ticket sales, equipment) and the purely organizational aspects (structuring and subsidiary creation, territorial organization, availability of infrastructure…).
Our practice in the information, media, press and advertising sectors is renowned. We advise large advertising agencies, newspaper publishers, radio and television broadcasters, content producers and audiovisual producers.

 

We are also present in the leisure and tourist sectors, and work with travel agents, tour operators, sport clubs, catering companies and on-line gaming organizers.
The convergence of our skills in sports law, competition law and audiovisual law enables us to work with our clients as effectively as possible, as both advisors and litigators, on the subject of sportainment and particularly the commercialization of media rights for top class sporting events.

We assist major French institutional players in the rail, road passenger and air transport sectors with their legal and social organization, contractual relations with customers and suppliers, infrastructure development and regulatory issues.

 

In the aeronautics sector, we assist infrastructure managers (airport platforms) and a number of Tier 1 and Tier 2 aeronautics subcontractors with all their legal and commercial issues, as well as manufacturers with more specific matters (setting up industrial sites, setting up joint ventures, etc.).

 

The complementary expertise of our corporate, public law and competition law teams enables us to respond effectively to the specific issues of this transport sector, which combine institutional reform with industrial, regulatory and competitive challenges.

We advise our clients on all the legal issues facing the industry, from product design/manufacture to distribution, including marketing and advertising, contracts with muses and models, and issues relating to e-commerce, artificial intelligence and intellectual property (particularly counterfeiting).

Our support extends to our clients’ international corporate development and the agreements they sign with their partners for the promotion and distribution of their products.
Finally, we assist our clients with regulatory and competition law issues, particularly those relating to selective distribution and franchise networks.

 

Classements 

Legal 500 – Edition 2023 – LUXURY GOODS

We advise and support a large number of pharmaceuticals and biotechnology firms, manufacturers of cosmetic and health products, as well as companies involved with new technology, software, communication networks and data storage, through all of the stages of their development: creation, structuring, financing, distribution, intellectual property protection, hiring and opening in France.

The main areas in which our teams intervene in the technology sector are risk capital and M&A, personal data, distribution and marketing, regulatory issues (drugs, medical and health products, cosmetics, foods), employment advertising and unfair competition.

We have a long history of working with numerous French and international companies and groups specializing in the agri-food sector. We support them at every stage of their development: creation, structuring, financing, growth, distribution, product liability, intellectual property protection, acquisition or sale of production sites. We also assist them with regulatory and competition law issues, as well as all their labor law questions.

 

The complementary skills of our corporate, commercial, competition law, labor law and litigation teams enable us to respond effectively to issues specific to the agri-food sector, which combine industrial, regulatory and competitive issues with health and safety and work organization.