France
Winner Intellectual Property Law Firm of the Year Granrut Avocats Richard Milchior +33(0)1 53 43 15 15 R.MILCHIOR@granrut.com www.granrut.com
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ranrut Avocats is one of the first French independent business law firms that brings together competent and experienced lawyers who will first aim to understand you then help you to define your objectives and determine the best legal strategy to meet them.
Created in 1957 by Bernard du Granrut, a former President of the Paris Bar, for more than 50 years the firm has cultivated the fundamental values of excellence, solidarity, respect and ethics. The quality of our processes is ISO 9001 certified. The firm has almost 50 lawyers including 17 partners We have always had an excellent reputation as litigators and the firm is further developing its (alternate dispute resolution ?) transactional activity. Granrut Avocats is a founding member of an international network of independent law firms mainly based in continental Europe. We are also proud that one of our partners, Jean Castelain, was the President of the Paris Bar in 2010 and 2011. We represent several foreign companies both in France and at the EU level. We also assist several big and medium sizes French companies. Our activities lead us to help our clients negotiating merger and acquisitions, this includes taking into consideration various aspects such as competition, IP or labour law. We are as well strong where public law is concerned or where the solution to the issue of the client involves public and private or commercial law. Our IP /IT activity is one of our stronghold since the creation of the firm and we have been active in sectors such as television, radio, press and obviously now Internet. Defining a trademark strategy and helping to protect brands through court litigation as well as custom enforcement is usual for us for all kind of sectors of activity such as clothing , footwear ,tobacco, cosmetics or defence industry to name a few. Finally one should not forget patents, design and GI in which we are active too. Last but not least, our firm is regularly recommended in several international and national rankings in most of our fields of activity.
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