Bernards

Founded in 2001, BERNARDS offers its clients the 20 years' professional experience of its main founding partner, both in arbitration and in business law. As of this day, the firm counts 5 lawyers, of whom 2 are partners, and a total staff of 10 persons, including two paralegals. The firm has recently extended its office, located a block from the Champs Elysées, and has welcomed on this occasion two more senior lawyers with the scope of a functional synergy. After only one year of existence, BERNARDS have already been quoted by the French magazine "Décideurs Juridiques et Financiers" as one of the ten major French law firm in the area of industrial risks. Moreover, the firm is proud of its contribution to Transnational Litigation, which is considered as the country by country reference tool responsive to litigator's needs.
            
Services           
BERNARDS advises and assists its French and foreign clients running their business in France, in all aspects of business law, at all stages of their development. We do not dissociate litigation practice from counsel as we strongly believe that litigation strategy participates to corporate decision making process and is necessary to enter into any kind of contract. BERNARDS's clients give the opportunity to develop an experience in various business fields such as transportation, retailing, car industry, industrial maintenance and engineering, real property management, software, insurance, construction, ? In consideration of the variety of its clients' needs, BERNARDS thus offers multidisciplinary legal services in litigation, arbitration and business law : contracts law (including commercial leases and distribution), corporate law (including employment matters), construction and real restate, transportation and industrial risks