Flichy Grangé Avocats

Partners: Joël Grangé, Philippe Montanier, Arnaud Chaulet, Juliana Kovac, Olivier Kress, Blandine Allix, Nabila Fauché-El Aougri, Stéphanie Guedes da Costa, Stéphanie Dumas, Joumana Frangie-Moukanas, Cyprien Pialoux, Jeannie Crédoz-Rosier, Charlotte Michaud, Bruno Fieschi, Corinne Potier, Aurélie Cormier Le Goff, Florence Bacquet, Caroline Scherrmann, Camille Ventejou, Frédéric-Guillaume Laprévote, Emmanuel Raynaud, Amandine Vetu, Franck Morel, Natacha Lesellier, Romain Guichard, Stéphane Flichy, Olivier Mambré.

Number of partners worldwide: 27

Number of other lawyers worldwide: More than 80

Languages: English, French, Italian, Spanish

Overview:

Flichy Grangé Avocats is a french leading employment and labour law firm, comprising 27 partners, one senior counsel, ten counsels, one consultant and 55 associates, all specialised in labour law. The team works closely with HR services and companies' top management helping them to anticipate and maximise potential change and ensure effective legal advice. To meet the needs of international groups efficiently, Flichy Grangé Avocats has co-created L&E Global, an integrated employment law alliance bringing together more than 30 premier law firms that specialize in international and local labor policies, boasting a total of over + 1750 attorneys worldwide. The firm’s services are directed towards the major French and international groups, employers’ associations and small and medium businesses. Flichy Grangé Avocats is systematically ranked as one of the main specialists in employment and labour law by French and international legal directories.

Main Areas of Practice:

• Restructuring, Mergers & Acquisitions
• Compensation - Employee Savings Plan- Employee Stock Option and Share Plans
• Occupational Safety and Health
• Collective Bargaining and Labor Management Relations – Wage and Hour
• Employment taxes – State audits (URSSAF)
• High-Risk Litigation - Criminal labor litigation
• International Mobility and Expatriation
• Compliance – Diversity – CSR
• Pensions – Benefit Plans
• Executives and Material Risk Takers’ Status and Compensation
• Civil Service - State-Owned Companies
• Training and development
• New forms of work

With the ever emerging legal environements, Flichy Grangé Avocats offers an adjusted legal advice and analysis structured by highly qualified legal experts. The firm has a bilingual team, led by Joël Grangé, Olivier Kress, Stéphanie Dumas, Caroline Scherrmann, Florence Bacquet and Natacha Lesellier whose expertise in dealing with transnational matters is widely recognised. They successfully provide legal advice to foreign companies seeking to develop their business in France, as well as to French companies planning to set up a business in other countries. Our expertise also spans all aspects related to employee mobility and business transfers i.e. transnational hiring of executives and employees, relocation and expatriation.

Restructuring and Employment:

Assessment of the employment and labour law consequences of company sales, outsourcing, mergers and acquisitions and the risks they involve, in particular by carrying out extensive employment and labour due diligence reviews or comprehensive studies of the impact on collective status. The firm also has recognised expertise in workforce reduction plans or site closure plans, in the form of either job preservation schemes or voluntary departure schemes and bearing in mind the recent major legal changes.

Remuneration Policies and Benefits:

Advice and assistance in setting up an employee savings scheme. This can take the form either of optional or mandatory profit sharing or of a company savings plan. The firm can also assist you in setting up a workforce shareholding scheme [stock options, allocation of free shares, share capital increase restricted to the company savings plan"s participants]. lt can also advise you should dispute arise with the URSSAF, the workforce, staff representatives or with the trades unions. The firm's team can also audit your current remuneration schemes and in that light, suggest the most suitable profit-sharing arrangements.

Social Protection, Employee Savings & Incentive Schemes:

Assistance to French and foreign companies with regards to the setting up various systems providing for additional employee compensation, including employee savings schemes (incentive schemes and profit sharing plans, employee savings schemes), employee share ownership plans (stock options, free share awards) and death, disability and other benefit or supplementary pension schemes.

Health & Safety:

Responsible for monitoring risks, in order to be in a position to give the firm’s clients the best possible advice on the preventive actions to be taken, in connection with the CHSCT (the Health, Safety and Working Conditions Committee).

Mandatory Contributory Regimes:

Managingall kind of social security issues taking into account not only French law but also EU reglementations. In addition, the firm's team is able to assist you with issues arising in relation to the unemployment insurance scheme, complementary pension schemes and special schemes applicable to specific cases. The team can also help with any procedures required, particularly during an audit by the Urssaf (the French authority responsible for collecting social security contributions).

Pension and Contigency:

Assistance with setting up complementary health and contingency schemes, as well as supplementary schemes, to benefit the workforce and upper-echelon executives. It can also advise in the event of transfer operations, by assessing the impact of a change in employer on workforce entitlements, or in the event of an URSSAF audit pertaining to exemption requirements. Specific benefits can be set up for pensioners or certain staff categories.

Executives and Material Risk Takers’ Status and Compensation:

Advice on all issues related to corporate governance, corporate officers’ compensation, executives' employment contracts, and the combination of corporate officer positions and employment contracts, particularly within listed companies and international groups.

High Risk Litigation:

Offering tailored experience in different risky litigation cases and an effective approach to deal with individual litigation, and where applicable, 'mass' litigation cases throughout the entire French territory.

Company Managers & International Mobility:

Advice and representation to the top management and employees through a specific developped know-how on all the questions related to corporate governance and international mobility from compensation of corporate officers to employment contracts for managers of listed and non listed companies and international groups.

Ethics, Diversity and CSR:

Advising clients in identifying their priorities through anti-corruption (Sapin II), human rights (Vigilance) and data privacy (GDPR) due diligence and assessments, drafting internal policies (Code of Ethics, anti-corruption Code of Conduct, Human Rights policy, anti-discrimination/sexual and psychological harassment policies, IT charters, social media policies, conflict of interests/gift and entertainment registers, supplier codes of conduct).

Public service and state-owned companies:

The state-owned companies practice has been set up to deal with all issues, arising with public sector organisation, which often involve a mix of administrative and civil law.

Training policies & initiatives, work/study contracts, annual reviews, financing:

Advising employers on how best to work out training policies, on setting up annual reviews and on negotiating the attendant collective agreements specifically on the employer’s contribution to the statutory scheme known as the CPF (personal training account). It also assists training agencies with changes to their legal status or structure.

Atypical and/or new forms of work:

Advising companies, groups, temporary work agencies, professional employment organizations, interim management firms, independent worker platforms, employment bodies, and professional unions.

International Footprint:

Founding member of L&E Global,a current member of international networks: IBA, ABA, EELA.

Types of clients:

The firm serves clients from all sectors particularly from industrial, financial services, information technology, media and telecommunications. Clients include large groups (both French and international), professional associations of employers and small and medium-sized companies to whom the firm provides experience and practical advice in the day to day management of employment issues. The firm’s services are also offered to public sector companies.