FRANCE Law and Practice Contributed by: Thierry Marembert, Cécile Labarbe and Céline Serpagli, Kiejman & Marembert
Kiejman & Marembert was founded in 2000 and has 11 lawyers on staff. It specialises in complex litigation involving major strategic and economic interests, including white-collar criminal defence, corporate and finance litiga- tion, and media and entertainment litigation. Its clients include listed French and international companies, major industry groups, international or cultural institutions, private equity and family offices, film and television producers, and me-
dia outlets, in addition to heads of state, cor- porate executives and personalities in the arts, culture, literature, fashion and sport. The firm’s key practice areas are white-collar crime litiga- tion (international corruption, tax fraud, money laundering, banking and market rates and in- dices manipulation, insider trading or complex fraud); corporate, private equity and finance law litigation; and litigation involving media, enter- tainment and the arts.
Authors
Thierry Marembert is the co-founder and managing partner of Kiejman & Marembert, and has expertise in white-collar criminal matters, corporate law and arts, and media and
Cécile Labarbe is a partner at Kiejman & Marembert and handles business matters, with an emphasis on shareholder disputes, private equity, securities and financial litigation.
entertainment law. His experience includes defending clients before all French criminal courts, regulatory bodies and administrative authorities, including the AMF (the financial markets regulator), the Court of Auditors and the Budget and Finance Disciplinary Court. He is a member of 3 Verulam Buildings, in Gray’s Inn chambers in London. He was admitted to the Bar in 1994 and is a Knight of the French Order of Merit. Thierry is a frequent speaker at international conferences concerning corruption, fraud and general litigation.
She also handles civil and criminal media law cases involving legal and natural persons (eg, writers, journalists and politicians) as well as intellectual property law. Cécile is a graduate of the ESSEC Business School and has studied business law at the University of Paris I. She was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2009.
Céline Serpagli is a counsel at Kiejman & Marembert whose practice focuses on IP law, entertainment law, IT law and art law. She works for major motion picture producers involved in IP
and entertainment disputes, and also handles general civil and commercial law cases. Céline holds an LLM degree in IP law from Golden Gate University Law School in San Francisco and a specialised advanced graduate degree in IT law from Paris XI. She was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2007.
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