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Sad news
News - 25/07/2023
Alex Marquardt, founding partner of the Paris office of the law firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel in 2000, passed away on July 21. His sudden death comes as a shock. Alex was an immense and brilliant lawyer, an internationally recognized arbitrator and an expert in Common Law as well as in French, [...]
ABA Congress in Paris
News - 23/07/2023
I greatly enjoyed participating in the American Bar Association Conference organized in July 2023 in Paris by the ABA Cross-Border Institute. Apart from the keynote speech (see below) that I had to give, I was very pleased along with Alexia Sedykh of the French ministry of Justice and Alexander [...]
July 14th Parade 2023
News - 14/07/2023
On this 14 July 2023, a salute to our army and to all those who risk their lives in defence of the nation and their fellow citizens, and our common Security in Europe. [...]
Mardi du Grand Continent conference at the Sorbonne on June 20, 2023
News - 03/07/2023
"During this conference, I drew a parallel between my youth "after the end of civilisation", referring to Nazism, and today's youth, particularly the students at the Ecole Normale Supérieure who made up the audience, drawing their attention to the risk that they were "on the eve of the end of [...]
To be recognised as Best Lawyers
News - 22/06/2023
It's a great pleasure and an honour to be recognised as Best Lawyers again for 2024! [...]
Compliance conference
News - 13/06/2023
I have very fond memories of this very interesting discussion with the FIGroup teams on compliance on 12 June 2023. Inspired by the Anglo-Saxon world, this new, more responsible, and better shared way of managing the risks of all kinds that every company faces (corruption, climate, social and human [...]
PUBLICATION in L'Opinion: "Le recours à l'article 49-3" by Noëlle Lenoir
News - 01/06/2023
According to some political parties, the pension reform was decided without debate in Parliament. This is not true, as there were hours and hours of debate on the text in both the National Assembly and the Senate. While the use of Article 49-3 of the Constitution has put an end to parliamentary [...]
Fifteen years!
News - 27/05/2023
It was a pleasure and an honor for me to open the Gala celebrating the 15th anniversary of the creation of the Master's degree and the Chair in Business Law and Ethics created and run by Professor Roxana Family at the University of Cergy-Pontoise. [...]
Should the Constitutional Court be reformed?
News - 12/05/2023
" Should the Constitutional Court be reformed?" was the title of the excellent program presented by Thomas Hugues and co-hosted by Mathieu Croissandeau "Le Sens Public" on Public Sénat on May 10, 2023. Also taking part in the debate were Lauréline Fontaine, Professor of Law, and Frédéric Potier, [...]