Catégorie: Sectors

Media & Entertainment

Our Media & Entertainment team supports customers in all sectors related to creation, cultural industries and communication. These sectors include audiovisual, cinema, music, advertising, video games, sports, 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 event organizers, advertisers, studios, publishers, TV channels and OTTs, producers, artists and art agencies, music production companies, communications agencies, as well as video game publishers.

 

Interventions :

 

– Drafting and negotiation of all types of contracts relating to creation, production, broadcasting and communication;
– Litigation in matters of press infringement, invasion of privacy and image rights;
– Protection of editorial and digital content;
– Validation of advertising/audiovisual content
– Fight against piracy;
– Product placement regulations;
– Management of relations with collective copyright management organizations (SACEM, SDRM…)
– Etc…..

Industry

Thanks to our project-based approach, we can offer industry players in general a legal strategy adapted to technological innovations, production processes and, more broadly, to energy transition and changing distribution models.

 

Our sector-specific knowledge and complementary skills enable us to provide the all-round support needed to understand the challenges facing our customers and propose innovative solutions tailored to their needs.

Energy

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.

FINANCIAL SERVICES

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.

Sport

Our first-rate experience in the sports sector is a long-term one. We support federations, leagues, organizers, sponsors, athletes and sports agents in all their legal issues, both as advisors and litigators. Our in-depth knowledge of the sector enables us to deal with both economic and commercial issues (media rights, sponsorship, ticketing, equipment) and purely organizational aspects (structuring and spinning-off of activities, territorial organization, provision of infrastructure).

 

Our practice in the fields of information, media, press and advertising is widely recognized.

 

We advise major advertising agencies, press publishers, radio and TV operators, content providers and audiovisual producers. We also have a strong presence in the leisure and tourism sector, assisting travel agencies, tour operators, sports clubs, catering companies and online game organizers.

 

The convergence of our skills in sports law, competition law and audiovisual law enables us to provide our clients with the most effective support, both in consulting and litigation, in matters relating to “sportainment”, and in particular the marketing of media rights to major sporting events.

 

 

Ranking :

Legal 500 – SPORTS LAW :

Joffe & Associés’ Romain Soiron is full-time dedicated to advising sport industry clients. He is a key adviser to major leagues and federations including the French Professionnal Football League, the French Football Federation and the French National Handball league. Soiron also regularly assists clients with strategic matters, such as negotiations of sponsorship and broadcasting rights contracts. The representation of clients in proceedings launched to stop illegal sport event streaming and ticket resale practices are another busy line of work. Major sports events organisation also forms part of the caseload, with the advice to the Organising Committee for the Women’s World Cups 2019, which was held in France, as a prominent recent example. The group was also retained by a high-profile football team. Associate Aude Benichou provides key support. As part of a full-service firm offering, the practice can rely on complementary expertise from other teams, including the litigation and employment practices.

 

Practice head(s) :

Romain Soiron

 

Testimonials : 

 

‘The firm has unique knowledge and experience in sports law and regulation, and its understanding of the sport industry is like no others. The firm actually knows the sport industry as well as its clients.’

 

‘The firm has incomparable knowledge of the sport industry. It quickly grasps matters at stake and provides total availability.’

 

‘Lawyers are available, responsive and knowledgeable. They provide adapted solutions.’

 

‘Romain Soiron has become the best lawyer around in the sport industry. He has a longstanding experience advising on media, sponsorship and commercial deals. He has a perfect understanding of clients’ needs. He certainly knows how to make everyone comfortable to work in the appropriate atmosphere and team spirit.’

Transportation & AERONAUTICS

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.

Luxury and Fashion

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.

 

 

Ranking :

Legal 500 – LUXURY GOODS

Joffe & Associés‘s Thomas Lepeytre is a longstanding strategic adviser to many French and European luxury flagship perfume, cosmetics, jewellery and fashion brands. He provides all-round advice, with particularly strong commercial and distribution law know-how. Lepeytre regularly negotiates contracts with key distributors based in France and overseas, especially in Dubai and England, and also handles litigation. Recent work included assisting a famous fashion house with the production of a major fashion show.

Practice head(s):Thomas Lepeytre

 

 

Testimonials : 

 

‘A very professional, business-focused and friendly team.’

 

‘A solid and highly available and reactive team familiar with the challenges of the luxury industry, balancing sound legal advice with a very pragmatic approach.’

 

‘The team has very good knowledge of the luxury industry and commercial, distribution and consumer goods law issues. It provides business-oriented solutions.’

 

‘ Thomas Lepeytre is always available, reliable and has great commercial law and luxury goods expertise. His commitment, understanding of the industry and unparalleled good judgement make him a trusted adviser.’

Technology

We advise and support numerous companies in the new technologies sector – software, communication networks – as well as companies in the pharmaceutical and biotech sectors, and manufacturers of cosmetics and healthcare products, in all stages of their development: creation, structuring, financing, distribution, protection of intellectual property, recruitment and installation in France, where applicable.

 

We also assist them with regulatory and competition law issues.

 

Our teams’ main areas of expertise in the Technology sector are venture capital and M&A, personal data, distribution and marketing, regulatory issues (drugs, medical and health products, cosmetics, food), advertising and unfair competition, and employment law.

Food industry

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.