De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés

Structure Division: The activities of the Structure Division cover litigation and transactional work in connection with economic actor’s assets, governance and financing.

Firm Partner, François Zocchetto mainly works in corporate and tax law, assisting both public and private actors. Chartered accountant, François Zocchetto began his private career with an audit/accounting and statutory auditor firm, and then founded in 1987 a law firm in business law for SMEs located in Paris and Western France. He has experience of the law applied by public actors and companies, and supports public projects (contracts, urban planning, public procurement, public service delegation) as well as restructuring, acquisition and transfer operations in entities of various sizes. He has held numerous mandates, including Senator of the Mayenne department from 2001 to 2017 and has been Mayor of Laval since 2014.

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François Zocchetto was a member of the French national Bar Council (Conseil de l’ordre des avocats) between 1990 and 1996, as well as of the French law professions reform Commission (Commission de réforme des professions du droit) chaired by Jean-Michel Darrois in 2008. He has been a member of the Paris Bar since 1987.

He is a graduate of the Ecole supérieure de commerce de Paris (ESCP Europe) and the Institut d'études politiques (IEP) of Paris.