Selection of the deals the firm has been involved in :

Corporate deals / JV

• Counsel to a private equity fund in the structuring and the negotiation of a EUR 40,000,000 financing relating to the building and the operation of a four star hotel.
• Counsel to a French producer in the setting up of a joint venture with a major producer company
• Counsel to Leguide.com SA in the acquisition of Gooster
• Counsel to Leguide.com SA in its IPO on the Alternext market (NASDAQ French equivalent)
• Counsel to a US franchisee in the negotiation and drafting of an international franchising agreement relating to the development of restaurants on the US territory
• Counsel to an electronic communication provider in the setting up of its French subsidiairy ;
• Counsel to a consulting company in the structuring of its share capital (shareholder agreement + tracking stock)
• Counsel to a financial investor, as plaintiff, in a EUR 6,707,715 litigation regarding a grievance of diffusion of false information by a listed company prior to a public share emission
• Counsel to a software editor in the raising of funds up to EUR 3,000,000 (VC Deal – Preferred stock - BSA Ratchet + BSPCE)
• Counsel to a software editor in the raising of funds up to EUR 1,500,000 (VC Deal – Preferred stock - BSA Ratchet + BSPCE)
• Counsel to a backup services provider in the acquisition of a bankrupted company.
• Counsel to main shareholder’s of an electronic communication provider in the selling of their shares (EUR 18,000,000)

TMT

• Counsel to a French industrial company in a EUR 4,000,000 litigation deriving from an IT project (ERP)
• Counsel to a financial market expert in a criminal IT litigation against a French Bank.
• Drafting and negotiation of an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) agreement for a French software publisher
• Drafting and negotiation of a video streaming platform agreement
• Drafting and negotiation of a EUR 7,000,000 package of software licence services agreement between an American software publisher listed on the NASDAQ and a French bank
• Counsel to a major insurance company, as plaintiff, in a trial for public defamation through web sites, blogs and spam
• Drafting and negotiation of many ASP (Application Software Provider) agreements for various software publishers
• Counsel for the defence of a telecom services provider in a EUR 150,000 litigation filed by the company using the telecom installation
• Drafting and negotiation of various European consortium agreements between dozens of technical institutes regarding development of new technologies
• Drafting and negotiation of a technical European agreement for the development of space information for agriculture
• Counsel to a major French industrial company, as plaintiff, in a litigation for computer intrusion
• Work for the legal implementation of a weblog creation solution
• Counsel to an employee sued for infringement for having modified technical parameters in pre-sold telecom cards
• Counsel to a software publisher, as plaintiff, in a litigation for infringement of the source codes of its main software and for unfair competition
• Counsel to an insurance company, as plaintiff, in a litigation for illegal telephone tapping
• Drafting and negotiation, for a software services company, of standard agreements for back up and crash recovery
• Counsel for the defence of a company against the telecom services provider for non execution of its installation obligations
• Audit and regularization with the French data protection authority of various databases of many services or industrial French companies
• Counsel to the electronic communications main actors (advertisers + email and fax broadcasters) against the CNIL following a change in the electronic communication legislation occurred in 2003

Intellectual Property

• Counsel for the acquisition of the adaptation right concerning a fiction caracter to be included in a video game
• Counsel to a French inventor in the sale of international patents for EUR 7,000,000 in the area of RFID
• Counsel to a video game producer in a litigation regarding the payment of royalties in the US and the UK territories
• Counsel of employees, as plaintiffs, in a litigation for the recognition of their copyright in the luxury industry
• Drafting and negotiation of the various agreements used for the organisation of the World Championship of Magic and the participation of the various magicians
• Counsel for the survey and the recovery of domain names before the French courts or the appropriate arbitration courts

Litigation / Arbitration

• Counsel to a real estate agent in a real estate agency litigation relating to the sale of a first rank building (EUR 230,000,000)
• Counsel to an electronic communication provider in a EUR 1,500,000 litigation against a telecommunications operator  relating to the sale of a business
• Counsel to a company, as plaintiff, in a EUR 2,500,000 ICC arbitration
• Counsel for the defence of a telecom services distributor in a commercial litigation with the telecom operator
• Counsel in a litigation against a major telecom operator for unfair competition