Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP

BCLP has more than 1,200 lawyers and offices in 31 locations across North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. 40% of our clients have worked with us for over 20 years. Our clients say we are close listeners, solution builders and lateral thinkers. That’s what it means to be Client Intelligent.

• Great listeners. We are law personified – friendly, capable people who inspire confidence and build relationships that last decades. We care about client success and are invested for the long-term.
• Solution builders. We are solutions-focused – providing integrated, specialist advice across the world. We collaborate without ego to reach the best outcome for clients.
• Lateral thinkers. We go beyond the ordinary – connecting the dots between the law, sector and market dynamics and client goals to deliver quality, commercial advice.

Our Brussels office continues to provide cutting-edge advice in complex and strategically important cross-border competition matters, ranging from high-value international merger control cases to guiding multinational corporations through behavioural cases and investigations.

The Brussels office has carried out pro bono work for the United Nations since 2007 serving developing countries and their competition and consumer protection agencies.

Competition law remains high on the corporate agenda, emphasised by the ongoing global crackdown on cartels, investigations into the digital economy and the proliferation of merger control regimes worldwide. At BCLP, we understand these priorities, and take a proactive approach to addressing our clients’ competition and regulatory compliance needs.

Brussels, Principal areas of work:

• Antitrust and Competition
• Investigations
• Public Policy and Government Affairs
• Regulation, Compliance & Advisory

Our German practice includes almost 60 lawyers who operate from key locations in Berlin the German capital, Frankfurt the financial centre of Germany and Hamburg the country’s largest shipping and transport hub. Our cross-office, multi-disciplinary teams offer our clients comprehensive advice for their local and global projects. Whether it is a national or cross-border transaction, we will always provide you with a team individually tailored to your needs. This ensures that you benefit not only from our local market and industry knowledge, but also from our international resources.

In Germany, we have a particularly strong reputation for providing excellent and comprehensive real estate consultation. Our lawyers have extensive experience advising national and international investors, banks, developers and companies on their real estate investments. We take pride in providing an integrated service that includes tax aspects as well as financing matters. We support you in your national and international real estate transactions and financings, as well as in your project developments. This includes assisting with joint ventures and real estate M&A, the structuring of REITs, ongoing asset management, public law issues and real estate restructuring.

Germany, Principal areas of work:

• Corporate/M&A
• Banking and Finance
• Bankruptcy, Restructuring and Creditors’ Rights
• Financial Regulation, Asset Management & Funds
• Data Privacy
• Intellectual Property
• Labor and Employment
• Real Estate
• Tax

BCLP’s integrated international network allows its Paris office to mobilise the best practitioners and offer its clients a platform of innovative and tailored legal services. Founded in 2008, our Paris office draws on the experience of over 75 lawyers, who are renowned for their tenacity and extensive knowledge of the French market and law.

Our multilingual and multicultural lawyers are experts in managing cross-border issues, which enables us to assist our clients in their development, globalization and transformation challenges in most countries with high economic stakes. Thanks to our integrated structure and collaborative culture, we have built strong relationships with our European and global colleagues, and we work as a team with one common goal: providing a first class service to clients.

Clients benefit from the firm’s integrated international network of innovative and operational legal services that allows to mobilize the best experts and to offer seamless legal solutions. BCLP’s Paris office is particularly active in the sectors of real estate & infrastructure, renewable energy, telecom, media & technology, financial services, retail and consumer goods, manufacturing, and food & beverage.

Paris, Principal areas of work:

• Antitrust & Competition
• Banking and Finance
• Compliance
• Corporate Criminal Law
• Commercial Litigation
• Corporate M&A
• Employment and Labor
• IP/IT & Data
• Real Estate
• Renewable Energies
• Restructuring
• Tax