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Where we work

Western Europe

Founded in Paris in 1920, Gide is one of the largest law firms in France and a foremost player in Western Europe. Present in Paris, Brussels and London, Gide helps its clients to implement their projects and solve their legal matters by providing them with the expert knowledge of its many multi-disciplinary teams.

Gide in Western Europe
Gide in Western Europe
  • Comprising 75 partners and some 270 associates, Gide Paris acts in all sectors of business law and dispute resolution.

    Known as the traditional advisor to major French groups as well as smaller sector-leading companies, Gide Paris also advises a great many foreign companies. Our international activity represents practically half of our overall activity, including interventions for both foreign companies in France and French companies abroad.
     
  • Founded in 1967, Gide Brussels is known and renowned for the excellence of the three legal sectors it covers: competition, international trade and the European regulations that are specific to the various business activities of its clients. Comprising over twenty lawyers, including five partners, the office caters for a wide variety of clients, whether French or foreign, public or private, in these sectors of law.

    The relations of trust in place with the European institutions these last 45 years enable Gide Brussels to create a useful and efficient dialogue with public authorities in the interests of its clients.
     
  • Gide London focuses on finance, dispute resolution, real estate and tax law. Opened in 2003, our London office comprises some 30 lawyers. Its financial expertise covers the various operations of banking (loans, asset or acquisition financing, debt restructuring, etc.), securitisation (structured financing, repackaging, derivatives, etc.) and capital markets.

    The dedicated international dispute resolutions team acts in commercial litigation cases as well as risk management and pre-litigation for multi-jurisdictional legal matters.

Elsewhere in Western Europe, Gide relies, through a network of independent law firms, on a close relationship (though not exclusive) with Chiomenti in Italy, Cuatrecasas in Spain and Portugal, and Gleiss Lutz in Germany. This network allows us to provide clients with a seamless, integrated service on complex cross-border projects and litigation. All three firms are leaders on their domestic markets:

  • With offices in Milan and Rome, Chiomenti has over 300 lawyers and tax advisors. It provides integrated legal advice on complex transactions to its clients, which include major Italian and foreign industrial, banking, insurance, and financial groups.
     
  • Cuatrecasas is a leading firm in Spain and Portugal, and highly regarded in Latin America. The firm has over 900 lawyers across 16 offices in the Iberian peninsula and 10 offices spanning Europe, Africa, America and Asia. It represents Iberian and international companies, including most of the largest listed Spanish and Portuguese corporations.
     
  • Gleiss Lutz is one of Germany’s leading full-service law firms. With over 300 lawyers, it has offices in six German cities (Berlin, Düsseldorf, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Munich and Stuttgart), advising many DAX-listed and Fortune 500 companies. Chambers Europe 2012 commends the firm for its “outstanding level of service with regard to response times, market knowledge, appropriateness of advice and value for money.”

Also, Gide relies on the Lex Mundi high quality European members.

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