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Lyon
The CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre Lyon team, law firm formerly operating as Boyer Clément Pégand until 2003, form a long-established Lyon-based team.
The Rhône-Alpes region lies at the forefront of innovative emerging industries and company services. The region's economic activity also boasts internationally-reputed traditional activities. At the heart of a dense and dynamic economic fabric, companies are increasingly faced with legal, tax and employment law challenges impacting their strategy at each stage of their development. Given this context, they require legal and tax assistance from a reliable law firm.
CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre Lyon is well-placed to develop a partnership with these companies by providing them with its expertise and experience gained through numerous and varied matters both in terms of the issues covered and the complexity of the questions handled: the firm's reputation for excellence and reliability in the Lyon and Saint-Etienne region is built on these assets.
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16 janvier 2009 - Forum CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre Lyon sur le thème :
Lois de Finances et actualité fiscale 2008 : comment tirer tout le
parti des évolutions législatives et jurisprudentielles dans le
contexte de la crise financière ?
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Our services
We offer a complete range of legal, litigation, tax and employment law services to companies with specific interests in the Greater South-East of France. This includes providing advice to French and foreign companies on various questions linked to their everyday activities.
We have particularly solid experience in advising companies in the manufacturing industry, trade and service sectors on mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, employment law and taxation.
We also advise clients in the public sector, including local authorities and their groupings, public organisations and public companies.
Our expertise
We advise our clients at all stages of their development on the Lyon and Greater South-East markets. Our lawyers are particularly specialised in the following areas:
Corporate Law
We advise our clients in structuring transactions in view of all legal constraints and opportunities:
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company law
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mergers and acquisitions, restructurings
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corporate finance engineering
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contracts
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commercial leases
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competition and distribution
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EU law
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sale of business and client assets; and
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legal due diligence
Employment Law
We advise companies on all employment law issues:
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employment law
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social security law
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employee benefits
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collective negotiations
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company remuneration policies
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litigation
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appeals to higher administrative courts
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international employment relations
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employment due diligence
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restructurings
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labour disputes; and
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relations with social partners
Litigation & Arbitration
We act on behalf of our clients in litigation and arbitration proceedings and represent them before the courts in the following areas:
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commercial law
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company law
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economic law
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banking and financial law
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corporate criminal law
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intellectual property; and
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bankruptcy and insolvency proceedings
National & International Taxation
We provide assistance in the following areas:
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tax audits, collection-related litigation
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restructurings
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property taxation
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taxation of international transactions and transfer pricing
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international investment structuring and foreign investors in France; and
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taxation due diligence
Public Law
We assist our clients in the public sector and private sector by providing advisory services and acting in litigation before the administrative courts:
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administrative litigation (urgent proceedings, expert assessments, settlements, etc.)
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law relating to regional authorities, local cooperation and managing local public services (industrial and commercial public institutions, etc.)
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public contracts (works contracts, supply contracts and services contracts, concession contracts, private-public partnerships, etc.)
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law relating to public works (outsourced project ownership, project management, etc.)
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town planning, (licences, participation, etc.)
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public domains (definition, private occupancy, etc.)
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regulated economic activities (classified establishments for environmental protection, regional committees for commercial facilities, etc.)
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public environmental law (water, noise, waste, polluted sites, etc.)
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EU law, public economic law and public competition law; and civil service (civil service employment, combining positions, etc.).
Our Clients
Our Lyon and Saint Etienne offices' clients are mainly medium-sized companies which are very representative of the economic fabric of the area and the Greater South-East region in general, as well as subsidiaries of large groups based in the Rhône-Alpes region from the industrial, trading and services sectors specialising in aeronautics, beverage production, automotive, banking, construction, consumer goods, cosmetics, energy (oil, electricity, nuclear), food-processing, supermarket distribution, logistics, transport, media, pharmaceuticals, IT, metallurgical industry, telecommunications, tourism, realestate development, etc.
Our firm's clients also include many public organisations and local authorities.
Five reasons to choose our firm
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Given our active and forward-looking approach to practising law, we evaluate and anticipate the potential risks faced by our clients to the best of our ability.
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We go beyond companies' expectations in order to help them optimise their financial, commercial, employment and tax strategies.
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As we develop close relationships based on trust with our clients, we are in a position to better understand the stakes and implications of legal proceedings and successfully manage all pre-litigation and litigation matters in liaison with them.
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As a result of the CMS alliance, we offer in-depth knowledge of European and even worldwide legal systems. We are able to advise our clients regarding complex transactions involving foreign-based subsidiaries.
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We are proud to be an independent law firm. Our clients are advised by stable teams of dedicated lawyers who are consequently familiar with their cases, which is an important guarantee of legal security. We consequently offer you unique and tailor-made services aimed solely at achieving your objectives.
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