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Date : 22 March 2010
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Gilles Martin, Julien Bertrand) advised AVG Technologies, leader in anti-virus software, for the acquisition of the French company Square.
Date : 18 March 2010
Jocelyne Delsouiller and Julien Bertrand, lawyers at Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés, have just published an article on “Related-party transactions: a review for practitioners” in the “Semaine juridique, Entreprises et affaires” dated March 18, 2010.
Date : 23 February 2010
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Jocelyne Delsouiller, François Bernard) advised MMP for the sale of its remaining participation in the company LE MOTEUR MODERNE, a research and development company specialised in internal combustion engines and their associated transmissions, to the group AVL, whose activities consist in power train engineering, instrumentation and test systems and advance signalation technologies. AVL was advised by the law firm Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel LLP (Alexander Marquardt and Marco Plankensteiner).
Date : 23 December 2009
William Feugère’s book, “Maîtrise des risques du dirigeant” (The legal, criminal and tax risks faced by managers : how to control them) co-authored with Professor Deen Gibirila, has been published by Editions Francis Lefebvre.
Date : 17 November 2009
William Feugère is to chair two seminars on money laundering, on November 17, 2009 in Versailles, advertising the Chairmen and members of the Bar councils of the Ile de France area, in association with François-Xavier Matteoli former chairman of the Hauts de Seine bar association, on the topic “How to prevent the risk of money laundering” and on November 23, 2009, in Paris where his audience will be real estate professionals (notaries, syndics, real estate agents and lawyers) on the topic “Money laundering in the real estate field”.
Date : 03 November 2009
On November 12, 2009, Valérie Sédallian will take part in the workshop organised by the Secretary of State for Strategic Studies and the Development of the Digital Economy to take place at the institute of Sciences Politiques on the topic “The right to be forgotten in the electronic world”.
Date : 22 October 2009
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Charles Campbell and Julien Bertrand) are advising the Irish group AMRAY MEDICAL, European leader in the manufacture of X-Ray protection products, for the acquisition of assets and the development of its activities in France.
Date : 09 October 2009
On October 9, Charles Campbell hosted a meeting in Paris of the members of the Monterey Funds Club, a European group of individual practitioners specialised in investment funds. Jocelyne Delsouiller and William Feugère gave papers on private placements and money laundering rules in France on this occasion.
Date : 23 September 2009
Campbell Philippart Laigo & Associés were represented at the USLaw Conference in San Francisco (September 23-26). Charles Campbell was one of the eight TELFA members who gave brief presentations on doing business in their respective jurisdictions. TELFA’s association with USLaw gives its members access to legal services provided by some 4,000 professionals throughout the United States and Mexico.
Date : 17 August 2009
As in previous years, Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés is listed in the 2009-2010 edition of the Legal 500 among the recommended firms in the fields of mergers and acquisitions, tax, commercial litigation and international arbitration.
Date : 12 June 2009
In June 2009, Charles Campbell, former president de TELFA and currently member of the board, and Gilles Martin attended the bi-annual TELFA general meeting in Budapest in the presence of the US Law delegates. The meeting was hosted by Hungarian TELFA member (Bihary, Balassa & Partners)
Date : 19 May 2009
Edouard Bertrand is a guest speaker at the First International Forum of Arbitration which is taking place in Kiev on May 21, 2009. He will be addressing the following theme : « Peculiarities of recognition and enforcement of international awards within the European Union ». This event will bring together international experts and practitioners of arbitration from countries of the European Union and the CIS as well as representatives of the Government and judicial authorities of Ukraine.
Date : 15 May 2009
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Charles Campbell and Gilles Martin), advisors to several foreign funds promoters and distributors, assists the Irish company SGF Marketing Limited with the development of its activity in France.
Date : 15 April 2009
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Gilles Martin and Judith Bouchardeau), advisors to several foreign funds promoters, assists the UK UCITS Neptune Investment Fund with the development of its marketing in France.
Date : 06 April 2009
Valérie Sédallian joins Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés, to reinforce and develop the IP/IT activity. Valérie Sédallian is an established authority in the I.T. /I.P. field. In addition to her professional practice, she has taught and written extensively on various I.P. subjects, including a pioneering text book on internet law in France.
Date : 20 March 2009
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Charles Campbell, Gilles Martin and Julien Bertrand), advises the Danish bank Jyske Bank and its French branch with the development of their activities in France.
Date : 10 March 2009
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Jocelyne Delsouiller, Julien Bertrand) advised TIANSHUI SPARK MACHINE TOOL Co. Ltd. an independent Chinese industrial group, for the acquisition from the family group CATO of SOMAB, a French group specialized in the design, manufacture and marketing of machine tools.
Date : 05 March 2009
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Gilles Martin and Jocelyne Delsouiller), advisors to several foreign funds promoters, assists the UK company Investec Asset Management with the development of its activity in France.
Date : 23 February 2009
Edouard Bertrand is to chair a seminar organised by ICC-France, to be held on 2 March 2009 at the international headquarters of the ICC on the theme of enforcement of arbitral awards. Among the six specialist speakers at the seminar, Richard Ryde will deal with the topic of recent developments in English law in this area.
Date : 01 January 2009
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Jocelyne Delsouiller and François Bernard) are advising the Italian fashion designer Trussardi, for the development of its activities in Paris. In this respect, the firm assisted the group in relation to the acquisition of the company Rennes du Four, and in relation to the restructuring and financing of the group in France.
Date : 17 December 2008
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Gilles Martin and Judith Bouchardeau), advisors to several foreign funds promoters, assists the Danish UCITS Jyske Invest International with the development of its marketing in France and its relationship with the AMF (French financial market authority).
Date : 15 December 2008
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Jocelyne Delsouiller and Edouard Bertrand) has assisted Mr. Stan Springel as US Chapter 11 Trustee for the bankruptcy estate of Innovative Communications Corporation in connection with the sale of its cable TV operations in France to the Altice group. Mr. Stan Springel was assisted in the US by Vinson & Elkins (Paul Heath and Mike Freeman). The acquirer was assisted by cabinet Franklin (Alexandre Marque and Magali Masson).
Date : 26 November 2008
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (François Bernard, Julien Bertrand) advised the Elsys Design group for the sale of the company Trango Virtual Processors, specialized in the development of virtualization software (software allowing the running of several applications on a single support) to the Californian virtualization software editor VMware.
Date : 15 November 2008
In November 2008, Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés hosted a General Meeting of TELFA, the European Lawyers’ Alliance of which it is the French member. There was also a large contingent from USLaw, TELFA’s North American associate. The meeting took place ten days after the landmark Presidential election in the U.S.A. and proceedings started with a debate in the Law Library of the Palais de Justice with a presentation by Dominique Moïsi, following the publication of the French version of his book, on the subject of “A New America for a New World”, followed by commentary by Jervis Smith of Citibank London and Colin Stanbridge, Managing Director of the London chamber of Commerce and Industry. Various presentations were made in the course of the General Meeting, including one by Edouard Bertrand and Richard Ryde on “Dispute Resolution in France: an Overview for Foreign Lawyers”. The administrative business of the Meeting included the confirmation of the firm of Siksniute & Partners as the new Lithuanian member and a presentation by the Maltese firm EMD which is a candidate for TELFA membership. The meeting closed with, Charles Campbell, after five years as Chairman of TELFA, handing over this position to Frans Knüppe of the Dirkzwager firm in the Netherlands.
Dispute resolution in France: an overview for foreign lawyers
Date : 08 November 2008
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Gilles Martin and Judith Bouchardeau), advisors to several foreign funds promoters, assists the UK company New Star with the development of the marketing of its UK and Irish UCITS in France and their relationship with the AMF (French financial market authority).
Date : 03 November 2008
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Jocelyne Delsouiller and François Bernard) are advising the Italian fashion designer Trussardi, for the implementation and development of its activities in Paris.
Date : 15 October 2008
The TELFA general meeting with representatives of US Law will take place in Paris on November 14 and 15, 2008. The program will include a debate moderated by Dominique Moïsi of the French Institute for International Relations, with the participation of Jervis Smith, Managing Director of Citibank London and Colin Stanbridge, chief Executive of the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, on the impact on US-European relations of the outcome of the US presidential election.
Date : 12 October 2008
Edouard Bertrand, co-Chair of the Task Force on amiable composition of the ICC Commission on arbitration will present the final report of the Task Force for approval by the Commission at its meeting in Buenos-Aires on October 12, 2008.
Date : 31 July 2008
Alain Philippart believes that EU Law may allow foreign pension funds to obtain rebates of the 25% tax withheld at source on the payment of French source dividends.
For further details see article attached.
Date : 12 June 2008
In June 2008, Charles Campbell the current Chairman of TELFA and Jocelyne Delsouiller attended the bi-annual TELFA general meeting in Padua in the presence of US Law delegates. The meeting was hosted by Italian TELFA member (LCA – Luca Ferrari).
Date : 02 June 2008
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Charles Campbell, Julien Bertrand) advised NATIXIS on the restructuring of an Irish group’s real estate financing package. The borrower was advised by Herbert Smith and Winston & Strawn.
Date : 02 May 2008
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Charles Campbell and Julien Bertrand) are advising an Irish hotel group, on the acquisition of its first hotel in France, as well as on various aspects of the development of its activities in France.
Date : 01 April 2008
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (François Bernard, Charles Campbell) advised a Swiss group on the acquisition of a French asset management company and the obtaining of the AMF authorization.
Date : 18 February 2008
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Jocelyne Delsouiller, Julien Bertrand) advised a group of private investors for the sale of the company FA Technology, specialized in the design, development, and marketing of electronic and dynamic board systems to the company Financière Lumiplan. Financière Lumiplan was advised by the law firm Cornet, Vincent, Segurel (Didier Lacroix, Matthieu Guignard).
Date : 06 February 2008
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Gilles Martin, Jocelyne Delsouiller and Judith Bouchardeau), advisors to several foreign funds promoters, assists the American management company AllianceBernstein and the Luxembourg UCITS AllianceBernstein with the development of their activities in France and their relationship with the AMF (French financial market authority).
Date : 05 January 2008
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Gilles Martin) advised the Dutch group Teleplan with the liquidation of its French subsidiary.
Date : 22 December 2007
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Jocelyne Delsouiller, François Bernard) advised MMP for the sale of the company SODEMO, specialized in the creation, development, manufacture and sale of racing engines and electronic engine management systems for major car manufacturers, to the company S&S FRANCE, formed between SHINSUNG DELTA TECH and Mr Guillaume MAILLARD; SHINSUNG DELTA TECH is a Korean company listed on the Seoul stock exchange, specialised in the manufacture of plastic parts for electrical goods, the automotive industry and telecoms. S&S FRANCE was advised by the law firm DS Avocats (Jérôme Lombard-Platet, Arnaud Langlais).
Date : 12 November 2007
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés strengths its longterm relationship in the fields of both advising and arbitration with Chinese law firm H&Y (www.handylawfirm.com), based in Shanghai. In this context, the firm currently welcomes Wei Lin, partner of H&Y, lawyer registered in Shanghaï but also holding a Ph.D in law from Paris II University, who will act in development projects between China and France for the clients of both firms.
Date : 21 September 2007
Edouard Bertrand, the head of the arbitration department of Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés, has created a bilingual blog dedicated to arbitration law and business disputes in France and elsewhere. This blog can be accessed at : www.avocats.fr/space/edouard.bertrand.
Date : 06 September 2007
The TELFA alliance is organising a seminar on international arbitration in Istanbul on November 23 2007 presided by Turgut Kalpsüz, chairman of the arbitration commission of the ICC Turkish national committee. The topic is “Making arbitration in Europe more effective for Turkish business”. Edouard Bertrand, head of the arbitration department of Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés will speak on the recent recommendations of the arbitration commission of the ICC on techniques for controlling time and costs in arbitration. The other speakers are from the English, Romanian, Swedish, Swiss and Turkish members of the TELFA alliance.
Date : 25 July 2007
Campbell Philippart Laigo & Associés (Gilles Martin and Judith Bouchardeau), advisors to several foreign fund promoters, assists the UK company M&G Investments with the marketing in France of its various English funds and their relationship with the AMF (French financial market authority)
Date : 10 July 2007
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Jocelyne Delsouiller, François Bernard) advised MMP for the sale of a participation in the company LE MOTEUR MODERNE, a research and development company specialised in internal combustion engines and their associated transmissions, to the group AVL, whose activities consist in power train engineering, instrumentation and test systems and advance signalation technologies. AVL was advised by the law firm Kramer, Levin, Naftalis & Frankel LLP (Alexander Marquardt, Marco Plankensteiner and Marika Andreatos).
Date : 20 April 2007
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Charles Campbell, Julien Bertrand) advised IXIS CORPORATE & INVESTMENT BANK on the financing of the acquisition by an Irish investor of a property located in the heart of Paris. The borrower vas advised by Herbert Smith (Jacques Bertran de Balanda, May Jarjour, Eleanor Weston).
Date : 17 April 2007
Edouard Bertrand, head of the Arbitration department at Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés chairs an International Chamber of Commerce seminar on April 17, 2007 dedicated to "Amiable composition" in international Arbitration.
Date : 05 April 2007
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Gilles Martin) assisted the American company ES&S, specialized in the manufacturing of electronic voting machines whithin the scope of the distribution of its machines in France.
Date : 24 March 2007
Charles Campbell, as president of Telfa (www.telfa.org) enters into a partnership agreement with the US Law network (www.uslaw.org), American network gathering 60 law firms and more than 3,500 lawyers present in 45 states of the United States.
Date : 12 March 2007
Edouard Bertrand, head of the Arbitration department at Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés is one of the participants to the International advanced arbitration practice workshop on March 12-12, 2007, under the auspices of the ICC Institute of World Business Law, on the topic "Essential elements of the arbitration clause".
Date : 31 January 2007
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Gilles Martin and Judith Bouchardeau), advisors to several foreign fund promoters, assisted the Nordea Investment Funds management company with the marketing of its SICAV Nordea 1 in France and its relationship with the AMF (French financial market authority).
Date : 25 January 2007
Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés (Alain Philippart and Gilles Martin) advised the Centre Chirurgical Marcadet in the context of its insolvency proceedings and its subsequent restructuring.
Date : 05 January 2007
Publication in the "Bulletin Fiscal Francis Lefebvre" (BF 1/07) of an article by Alain Philippart, Senior Partner at Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés, relating to the French tax on salaries and the right to VAT exemption.
Date : 01 January 2007
Jacques Provost of the Campbell, Philippart, Laigo & Associés Tax Department co-authored an article on the concept of "Fair Value" in consolidated group companies. This was published under the title "Juste valeur: la recherche de la pertinence" in the January issue of "Echanges".
