Tim Portwood

Bredin Prat

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Bredin Prat is one of the world’s leading independent law firms, committed to providing legal advice of the highest standard. The firm is known for its outstanding quality of service, combining technical excellence with commercial awareness and innovative thought. In each of its practice areas (corporate, tax, competition and litigation & arbitration), Bredin Prat is widely recognised as a leading firm. Many of its partners, individually, are consistently cited by peers and clients as leaders in their respective areas of specialisation.

Bredin Prat has worked on the great majority of major public M&A transactions in France over the past 20 years, including high-profile privatisations and landmark contested takeovers. Its litigation and arbitration practices are of the highest quality with lawyers from both civil and common law legal systems and backgrounds representing French and foreign clients before domestic and international courts and tribunals of all levels.

In order to maintain the highest standards of service, Bredin Prat aims to operate with a partner-associate ratio of close to 1:1. In the last years, the firm has experienced steady organic growth and currently has one of the largest transactional corporate teams in the Paris legal market.

Bredin Prat’s international strategy is based upon its links with its ‘Best Friend’ associated leading independent firms, comprising Slaughter and May (UK), Bonelli Erede Pappalardo (Italy), Hengeler Mueller (Germany) and Uría Menéndez (Spain), enhancing its capacity to provide a seamless cross-border service to its clients of the highest quality of legal advice and representation.