Our Paris office is a key part of our global practice

Established in 1992, the Paris office is Clyde & Co’s oldest office in Europe.

Our Paris lawyers represent clients before the French courts, and in arbitration and mediation proceedings. They all have rights of audience before the French courts and handle the advocacy of the cases that they litigate.

Our Paris team provides clients with unrivalled experience across a range of key sectors that move, build, power and protect, including aviation, marine, road, rail, construction, renewable energy and insurance.

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We support local and international clients with a wide range of services including dispute resolution, IT, data protection, cyber risk, intellectual property (IP), D&O, professional liability, transport and energy.

We advise regularly on insurance and reinsurance operational compliance with French regulations and assist in developing new products and drafting complex clauses. We also assist in domestic and cross border commercial transactions, on a local, European and international level.

Clyde & Co Paris serves as a platform for our European and international activities, not just in France but also in French-speaking countries in Europe, Africa, Maghreb and the Middle East. Our lawyers work closely with our other offices around the world on complex international matters to provide an outstanding service to our clients.

Through our firm’s global outlook, we have built a pragmatic and solutions focused team in Paris who are not only bilingual, but also dual qualified to better serve our clients in various jurisdictions. Our lawyers speak a number of languages including French, Arabic, Bulgarian, Chinese, Dutch, English, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Macedonian, Russian, Serbo Croatian and Spanish.

What clients say

Clyde & Co is a highly reputed firm showing distinguished aptitudes in both aviation and shipping. [...] Its extensive international network allows the law firm to efficiently handle cross-border disputes involving jurisdictions such as the UK and Singapore, as well as representing clients in ICC arbitrations.

Chambers Europe 2023 on our Shipping & Aviation practices

The team assists with cases relating to product liability, business interruption claims due to COVID-19 and litigation. The law firm also handles industrial and environmental risk claims, coverage issues and cyber-insurance cases.

Chambers Europe 2023 on our Insurance practice

The Clyde & Co insurance team is one of the teams on the market with the most advanced skills. [...] We can count on them to find innovative solutions to our difficulties.

Client in Legal 500 EMEA 2023 France

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'Band 1' for Insurance in France

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‘Top Tier Firm’ for Aviation in France

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Gold Trophy in “Insurance” and “Transportation”

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Gold Trophy in “Industrial Risks and Insurance”

Trophées du Droit 2021

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