FTMS Avocats

Founded more than 30 years ago, FTMS has a strong reputation in complex and sensitive matters both in litigation, legal advice and crisis communication areas, involving large groups, SMEs and their top executives.

Particularly active in the areas of regulated sectors (banking and finance) and those having a high growth potential (industry and digital economy), FTMS is also recognized in the media field.

The lawyers of the firm are very active internationally, in particular in the so-called countries of continental law. As such, they regularly intervene in cross-border cases and offer their clients a full-service support.

FTMS, a transversal organization in France and abroad

• dedicated teams with complementary skills
• personal involvement of the partner, together with his team
• a legal, judicial and media network

Practice areas
Business litigation and arbitration: Cédric Fischer, Marc Henry,
Silvestre Tandeau de Marsac et Tristan Dupré de Puget

• Complex and strategic litigation: commercial law, industrial risks, construction, liability
• Defence before civil and commercial courts
• Arbitration and mediation proceedings

White-collar crime and civil liberties: Pierre-Olivier Sur, Mathias Chichportich

• Interventions in most of the major trials of the last 15 years
• Financial and political criminal law, international criminal law, environmental and public health criminal law, mass accidents, compliance
• Determination of transversal strategies, prevention of criminal risk, assistance with investigations and representation before the courts

Banking-finance: Silvestre Tandeau de Marsac, Marc Henry, Laurent Barbotin

• Assistance to banking and financial institutions, service providers, management companies and wealth management consultants, in France and abroad
• Advice on obtaining the necessary approvals and banking and financial regulation
• Intervention in all types of litigation: courts and regulatory authorities

Contracts, competition, distribution: Laurent Barbotin

• Negotiation, drafting and litigation of contracts
• Audit, advice and litigation in competition and distribution matters
• Development of digital activity and GPDR

Media: Mathias Chichportich, Pierre-Olivier Sur

• Defending the reputation and image of companies and individuals
• Crisis communication and implementation of media strategies
• Interventions before specialized courts: defamation, privacy, presumption of innocence, personal data

Labour law: Jean Néret, Olivier Angotti

• Social management of business restructuring processes
• Support to companies at every stage in the management of their working relationships and particularly in the implementation of individual contracts and collective agreements
• Negotiations with staff representative bodies and social partners and in the preparation, negotiation and operational implementation of employment protection plans
• Representation to clients in collective and individual litigation concerning risk, management of strikes, as well as in criminal liability claims against directors due to workplace accidents, industrial disasters and product-related liability.

Corporate

• Daily advice to the managers of large industrial or family-owned groups
• Assistance to investors in the implementation of their strategy and projects, particularly in the OHADA zone
• Legal structuring, drafting and negotiation of infrastructure contracts, creation of subsidiaries or acquisition of existing companies.