FRANCE Law and Practice Contributed by: Kyum Lee, Florian Dessault, Hannah Cobbett and Claire Gonzalez, BDGS Associés
BDGS Associés is one of France’s leading independ - ent law firms. Founded in 2013, the firm is renowned for handling clients’ most strategic and complex matters. The practice includes members who are bilingual and dual-qualified, enabling them to work across borders. The firm’s dispute resolution prac - tice regularly handles major international arbitration
matters for both French and international clients in a broad range of sectors, including energy and con - sumer products. The practice covers disputes under the rules of all key arbitral institutions in all the major arbitral seats. It also has significant experience and success in carrying out arbitration alongside leading independent law firms in all major jurisdictions.
Authors
Kyum Lee heads BDGS Associés’s dispute resolution and international arbitration practice. He focuses on complex commercial disputes and commercial arbitration, handling many high-profile cases, and has extensive experience of French pre-action evidence- gathering procedures. Recent work includes shareholders’ disputes regarding enforcement of a put option contained in a shareholders’ agreement (value over USD1.5 billion) and, in the luxury sector, the payment of dividends due under a shareholders’ agreement (value over USD300 million); a dispute between the seller and purchaser of a company in the renewable energy sector (value over USD100 million); and a dispute concerning the performance and termination of an international partnership in the retail sector (value over USD400 million).
Florian Dessault is a senior associate in BDGS Associés’s dispute resolution and international arbitration practice focusing on complex commercial
disputes and commercial arbitration. Admitted to the Paris and New York Bars, Florian’s recent publications include “Right to seek cancellation and characterization of the legitimate motive in pre-action discovery measures”, Rev. sociétés 2024 (with Kyum Lee), “Pre-action discovery measures: request founded on article 145 of the French Civil Procedure Code and interruption of the prescription for the substantive claim”, JCP E 2021, 1195 (with Kyum Lee), and “Pre-action discovery measures: territorial competence to receive a request based on article 145 of the French Civil Procedure Code”, RLDC 2021 6887 (with Kyum Lee).
Hannah Cobbett is a partner in BDGS Associés’s M&A and corporate law practice specialising in cross-border mergers and acquisitions (listed and unlisted companies), joint ventures, capital market transactions and
Claire Gonzalez is an associate in BDGS Associés’s dispute resolution and international arbitration practice. Her practice focuses on complex commercial disputes and commercial arbitration.
international arbitration. She is an Avocat à la Cour and Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and Wales. Hannah regularly contributes to guides published by Practical Law (Thomson Reuters) on French corporate law.
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