Laure Perrin

Civil and Commercial Litigation

• Regularly advises companies in corporate and post-acquisition disputes.
• Advising French and foreign companies in commercial and contract disputes, as well as agency, distribution and franchise agreement-related disputes.
• Represented one of the major French global groups in the production and sale of plant-based ingredients and pharmaceutical excipients in a €200 million corporate dispute.
• Representing a leading network infrastructure provider in a €30 million dispute before the Paris Commercial Court in relation to contract liability and product liability.
• Represented a leading Spanish company specialised in the design, fabrication, engineering and erection of structural steel in various construction and contract disputes against major French construction companies.
• Representing a leading American industrial coating provider in multiple litigations and expert determination proceedings in France in relation to breach of contracts and product liability.
• Regularly advises a French global automotive supplier in judicial expertise, civil liability proceedings relating to civil and product liability and contract liability disputes.
• Represented a football club based in the UK on matters of recovery and liability pursuant to termination of contracts.
• Represented a Formula 1 racing team in relation to the termination of a contract.

International Arbitration

• Representing a Middle Eastern company in a €110 million highly sensitive ICC arbitration involving five entities arising out of a contract for the construction of a logistics hub and provision of services in the military sector.
• Representing a state-owned oil corporation in a highly sensitive ad hoc arbitration relating to the impact of acts of war/insurrection on the performance of a charter party.
• Representing a French distributor of marine diesel engines against the major Japanese/Dutch manufacturer of marine engines in a €20 million NAI arbitration arising out of a breach and wrongful termination of contract.
• Represented a Hungarian bio-refinery in a €20 million ICC construction arbitration arising from a breach of contract in relation to the supply of a drying and distillation system.
• Represented a leading French company in an ICC arbitration in relation to a gas price review dispute.

Restructuring and Insolvency

• Regularly advises investors in the acquisition of distressed assets before French courts or in relation to restructuring issues.
• Regularly advises creditors and/or financers in relation to safeguarding their assets and receivables in insolvency proceedings (retention of title claims).
• Advised a leading French group in the metallurgy sector in relation to the acquisition of the assets of an insolvent entity specialised in the construction of solar trackers and subsequent litigations on post-acquisition and retention of title-related issues.
• Advised a Middle Eastern defence entity in the purchase of an insolvent entity specialised in the manufacture and sale of ammunition production lines and subsequent related disputes.

Sports Industry

• Advising a football club on matters of recovery pursuant to termination of contracts.
• Advising a Formula 1 racing team in relation to the termination of a contract.

Public Law Litigation

• Advising and representing an international pharmaceutical company in relation to medical liability, in particular in the framework of clinical trials and biomedical research.
• Advising and representing a French social security organism in relation to the protection of data.