April 12, 2011 (Paris) – Proskauer’s Paris office was recognized across a range of practices in The Legal 500 EMEA 2011, an independent guide to leading lawyers and practices in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.

 

The firm’s Paris office was cited as a leader in eight categories, including: Employment (Tier One); Private Equity: Fund Formation (Tier Two); Private Equity (Tier Three); Dispute Resolution: Commercial Litigation (Tier Three); Health & Life Sciences (Tier Three); Dispute Resolution: International Arbitration (Tier Six); EU Competition & Distribution (Tier Six); Mergers & Acquisitions (Tier Seven).

 

Individual lawyers who were ranked include Partners Yasmine Tarasewicz and Béatrice Pola, and International Counsel Jean-Baptiste Martin for Employment, and Partners Valérie Lafarge-Sarkozy and Mireille Dany for Commercial Litigation.

 

The lawyers in Proskauer’s Paris office have experience in multijurisdictional transactions that include mergers and acquisitions, private equity, corporate restructurings and joint ventures. The office’s labor and employment practice serves as a key component of the firm’s International Labor & Employment Group, focusing on collective bargaining, litigation and counseling with a particular emphasis on large corporate reorganizations and discrimination and wage inequality matters. The office’s litigation lawyers are known for their depth of experience and ability to address clients’ most critical needs, appearing before both French courts and international tribunals.

 

The Legal 500 is an independent, unbiased guide to leading lawyers that has long been one of the most esteemed surveys of European law firms. The rankings are created by a team of independent researchers and inclusion in the guide is solely based on their findings. Legal 500 ranks all major areas of practice on a national level and some at regional and state levels. The guide is produced by UK-based Legalease, a legal publishing house responsible for Legal Business magazine and other publications covering the European and Asian legal markets for more than 20 years.