We look for French students with excellent grades and sharing our core values of collegiality, teamwork and mutual respect in both following practice areas.
Fluency in both French and English is required. Please apply with a CV and your transcripts to [email protected].
Our Paris office focuses on all aspects of complex corporate transactions. We represent multinational clients in both domestic and cross-border public and private transactions, including distressed company acquisitions. We have wide cross-jurisdictional capabilities and work seamlessly with our firm’s other offices and practices to identify and realize clients’ objectives.
The Paris Restructuring and Special Situations team combines its members’ experience in restructuring, litigation and related transactional matters. The group, which routinely advises distressed companies, creditors, and shareholders, private equity firms, hedge funds and auditors, has worked on some of the most complex proceedings and transactions of recent years, which, in some instances, dramatically changed French insolvency proceedings. The team handles contentious matters as well as the renegotiation of finance documentation and provides multijurisdictional corporate advice.
The Paris office offers a wealth of experience in information technology and digital transactions, outsourcing, data privacy and cybersecurity. Our lawyers’ practice covers a broad range of matters including complex technology transactions and outsourcing projects; strategic digital transformation, such as acquisition, development or partnership in relation to innovative solutions like AI and IoT ; compliance and governance projects in light of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) including on cross-border litigation, as well as governmental authorities’ investigations ; and complex commercial transactions.
Our French litigation department offers in-depth representation to clients facing domestic or cross-border business challenges. We have a core foundation in complex litigation and arbitration, with extensive experience in complex M&A litigation, product liability and industrial disputes as well as in the infrastructure, financial and restructuring areas. Our unique, integrated approach complements our widely acclaimed US and UK dispute practices.
Our practitioners are experienced in acquisition finance, advising lenders, borrowers, and sponsors on leveraged buy-outs, build-ups, and corporate acquisitions. Client work also includes acting for banks, borrowers and financial advisers regarding investment-grade syndicated facilities and bridge finance facilities. We additionally assist on bespoke matters for companies requiring more complex ”special situations” financings.
Our tax team advises on structuring French and international transactions. We advise on complex tax matters and have an in-depth tax ruling practice. Team members also have significant experience in French real estate and hotel investment.
An LL.M. is an ideal complement to your studies. To support the hiring of LL.M. graduates, Gibson Dunn participates in the International Student Interview Program (ISIP) and the Overseas Trained Program.
They are large LL.M. Recruiting Programs in the US hosted by the New York University and the Columbia University, in cooperation with a multitude of top Law Schools.
The Programme allows employers from all around the world to advertise opportunities to LL.M. students.
The ISIP 2024 will take place virtually in late January 2025, usually on the last Friday and Saturday of the month.
The application period opens in October.