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Read the portrait of Franklin’s senior advisor Michel Sapin, published in the March 2020 issue of Compliances (...)

As the health crisis that France is going through is of an unprecedented scale, the French Government (...)

Update on what companies facing Coronavirus losses can do in France? All companies whose activity is reduced (...)

The Covid 19 spread is causing a great deal of concern amongst employers and employees. This paper (...)

Partner Myriam de Gaudusson weighs in on the decision of the Cour de Cassation (France’s highest court) (...)

Partner Myriam de Gaudusson weighs in on the decision of the Cour de Cassation (France’s highest court) (...)

Partner Myriam de Gaudusson discusses delegations of authority in an article in Les Echos of March 5. (...)

Décideurs Juridiques shines a spotlight on 30 rising business lawyers recognized for their talent, commitment, and outstanding (...)

Listen to our labor and employment associate Silvia Rumanescu‘s radio interview, aired on France Info on May (...)

Michel Sapin is quoted in an article in Le Figaro of February 5, 2020. “French fraud investigators (...)

Former Altice General Counsel Alexandre Marque has rejoined Franklin, the firm he co-founded in 2000, where he (...)

Decideurs Magazine, January 21, 2020. These past months have been critical for Franklin. In the last few (...)

Franklin expands its legal and compliance practice with the addition of a new partner, Serge Durox, and (...)

In France, the debtor and the directors of a company in reorganization are automatically barred from tendering (...)

New thresholds to be taken into account in labour law as from 1 January 2020 The PACTE (...)

Franklin has announced the addition of a new partner, Stéphan Alamowitch, to its Banking & Finance practice. (...)

Franklin continues its expansion with the addition of partner Numa Rengot, who heads up the firm’s new (...)

Franklin has been joined by a team of 8 lawyers led by partners Myriam Delawari-de Gaudusson and (...)

AEW has acquired an off-plan warehouse named “Stockespace Grand Quevilly” near Rouen, in the north of France, (...)

Prologis has announced the development of a 100,000 square meter turnkey warehouse for Samada, the logistics subsidiary (...)

Read Décideurs Magazine’s interview with Michel Sapin and Jérôme Michel in its issue of November 25, 2019. (...)

Franklin has received a top 5-star rating from Option Droit & Affaires, ranking among the leading firms (...)

Franklin partners were recognized as “Leading” lawyers for “Transactions between €75 and €500 million” in Décideurs’ (Leaders (...)

The Paref group has announced the completion of the acquisition, from three funds managed by BNP Paribas (...)

Our partners and their teams have been recognized in the following categories: Real estate tax: Leading Tenancy (...)

French legal publication Le Monde du droit has just released its list of best law firms in (...)

Hotel developer, owner and operator Perseus is selling one of its hotel brands, Les Hôtels d’en Haut, (...)

The Sense building, a 19,000 sq. m. build-to-suit property developed by Redman for AXA IM – Real (...)

Best Lawyers®, with its print partner in France, French business magazine Les Echos, has just released the (...)

Paref Gestion has just acquired from Meyer Bergman, on behalf of SCPI Novapierre 1, a portfolio of (...)

French weekly magazine “Le Point” has published its first best French lawyers guide, in collaboration with independent (...)

Franklin is happy and proud to be ranked once again in the Legal 500 EMEA 2019 directory. (...)

Franklin has advised Allianz Real Estate on letting the “16 George 5” building to Givenchy, a luxury (...)

Franklin is happy and proud to be ranked once again in Chambers and Partners Europe’s 2019 directory. (...)

In its March 8 issue, French business magazine Les Echos Executives listed Franklin among Chambers & Partners’ (...)

Congratulations to our Partner François Verdot and his team who have been ranked in the following sections (...)

Congratulations to our Partner Jérôme Michel and his team who have been ranked in the Urban Planning/Development (...)

According to Chambers 2019, « Yam Atallah is a well-recognised lawyer in the French corporate M&A market. (...)

Yann Colin has been distinguished in the Chambers Global 2019 Litigation ranking. According to Chambers Global, « (...)

Partner Yann Colin and his team were ranked in the « Commercial litigation » and « White-Collar (...)

Option Droit & Affaires has ranked Franklin among the best law firms for upper mid-cap LBO transactions (...)

Franklin has advised SFR (Altice Group) on selling US investment firm KKR a 49.99% stake in SFR’s (...)

Franklin has advised Altice on reorganizing its rural fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) business as a subsidiary and on selling (...)

Franklin has received a top 5-star rating from Option Droit & Affaires, ranking among the leading firms (...)

Our Corporate practice recognized as “Leading” for “Transactions between €75 and €500 million” in Décideurs’ (Leaders League) (...)

Franklin has advised Next Radio TV (Altice France) on acquiring Société Anonyme Lyonnaise de Télévision (SALT), which (...)

Nearly 60 runners will represent Franklin at the “Children without Cancer” run in Saint-Cloud (Hauts-de-Seine) on Sunday (...)

Our Partners received the following rankings: Real estate tax: Leading practice Commercial leases: Excellent Real estate litigation: (...)

Altice Dominicana, a subsidiary of Altice Europe N.V., has entered into an agreement with Phoenix Tower International (...)

Interview with Yann Colin in C’est à vous – Le Magazine du MEDEF, July 2018. In commercial (...)

Altice Europe has entered into exclusive negotiations with the US investment fund KKR for the sale of (...)

Partner Jérôme Michel is cited in the article “Law Firm Governance: what’s the ideal model?” published in (...)

Iconic French winter sportswear company FUSALP has issued stock to new shareholders who now own 12 percent (...)

DANONE has taken on a lease for “Convergence”, a building erected by Inovalis and Pitch Promotion in (...)

Franklin has advised Altice on its exclusive negotiations with Tofane Global, a new international telecom service provider, (...)

Option Droit & Affaires has ranked Franklin among the best law firms for upper mid-cap LBO transactions (...)

Partner Yam Atallah was mentioned as « Leading Individuals » in the Corporate M&A – Mid-Market Chambers (...)

According to Chambers Global, « Department head Yann Colin of Franklin is regarded as a “very good (...)

Franklin cited in Lettre des juristes d’affaires’ January 22, 2018 issue. The end of 2017 saw a (...)

A market leader in France for nearly two decades, Franklin is ushering in the new year with (...)

Franklin received a Gold Award for «Real Estate Transactions» during the event the Trophées du Droit organised (...)

The Corporate Finance – M&A team received a Silver Award for “Mergers-Acquisitions : Mid to Large-Cap” – (...)

Infravia Capital Partners and Altice have signed a deal for Infravia Capital Partners to acquire the entire (...)

Yam Atallah, Céline Maironi-Persin, Alexandre Marque, Mark Richardson and their team received a Gold Award for “Mergers (...)

Yann Colin and his team received a Silver Award for “Commercial litigation” – Décideurs – 2012.

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The Corporate Finance – M&A team received a Silver Award for “Mergers-Acquisitions : Mid to Large-Cap” – (...)

The Franklin law firm has won the coveted award of French “Law Firm of the Year” at (...)

On Saturday April 5, Vivendi announced that it had chosen the Altice/Numericable bid for the acquisition of (...)

Altice-Numericable/SFR Counsels: Franklin : Kai Völpel (Partner), Virginie Brault-Scaillet and Djésia Meziani, Corporate, Julie Catala Marty and (...)

On December 22, 2015, the French Competition Authority authorized KOSC to acquire the copper DSL network of (...)

Franklin advised Numericable-SFR on raising $5.2 billion in the largest single high-yield bond issuance. The deal attracted (...)

The business law firm Franklin is pleased to announce the appointment of Jérémy Chiche as partner, expanding (...)

Franklin has advised the Altice group on selling its operations in Belgium and Luxembourg (the Coditel Group) (...)

Franklin has served as lead counsel to the Altice group in connection with its acquisition of the (...)

Franklin advised the Altice group on the acquisition of Parilis SA and its subsidiaries, providers of telecommunications (...)

Franklin advised Numericable-SFR on raising $5.2 billion in the largest single high-yield bond issuance. The deal attracted (...)

Franklin advised Numericable-SFR on its move to accelerate convergence of telecoms and media by acquiring Altice Media (...)

Articles quoting Franklin, L’Opinion April 4th, 2016, Option Droit & Affaires April 6th,2016, Lettre des juristes d’affaires (...)

Paris-based law firm, Franklin, has, for the second time in three years, won the French Law Firm (...)

Franklin advised Perseus in connection with its acquisition of hotel Les Roches Rouges, a three-star hotel on (...)

Altice has just finalized the sale of two of its Portuguese assets, namely Cabovisao, Portugal’s second largest (...)

Franklin, August & Debouzy, and Weil, Gotshal & Manges have advised the shareholders of Numergy, a company (...)

Cable operator Altice has finalized an agreement to sell a 30% stake in Cablevision to BC Partners (...)

Altice-Numericable/SFR Counsels: Franklin : Kai Völpel (Partner), Virginie Brault-Scaillet and Djésia Meziani, Corporate, Julie Catala Marty and (...)

Volumen and La Martinière Groupe counsels : Franklin with Alexandre Marque, Partner, and Virginie Brault-Scaillet (Corporate), Jérôme (...)

On July 27, Altice announced the signing of a strategic partnership with Alain Weill, the Chairman, CEO, (...)

On 2 June 2015, Altice, owner of the French telecom operator Numericable-SFR, finalized its €7.4bn acquisition of (...)

Franklin received a Silver Award for “Entrepreunarial Firm” – Décideurs – 2015.

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The Corporate Finance – M&A team received the Award Deal of the Year, “Mergers-Acquisitions : Large to (...)

The Private Equity team received a Specific Mention – LBO : Upper-Mid & Large-Cap – Décideurs – (...)

Articles quoting Alexandre Marque, Kai Völpel, Virginie Brault-Scaillet, Djésia Meziani, Claire Fougea et Jérôme Michel, Le Monde (...)

Articles quoting Alexandre Marque, Magali Masson et Laurent Halimi, Le Monde du droit March 3rd, 2015, Law (...)

The French Competition Authority cleared Numericable Group’s (Altice’s subsidiary) takeover of Omer Telecom Limited (who operates the (...)

Happy ending to a deal which will go down in the history of the French telecoms sector (...)

Articles quoting Alexandre Marque, Christian Sauer and Magali Masson, Law in France May 20, 2014, Industriemag.com May (...)

Articles quoting Alexandre Marque, Magali Masson and Christian Sauer, Law in France April 14, 2014, Le Monde (...)