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Our commitments

  • Entrepreneurial and business-focused approach

  • Predictable and cost-efficient fee structures and solutions

  • Proactivity and Agility

  • Adaptability

  • Availability

  • A human-sized law firm

  • A trustworthy local network

  • A team of professionals seasoned in guiding clients through the most complex situations and projects in a multicultural and fast-paced environment



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International expertise in Business Law

Elysée Avocats is an independent business law firm based in Paris with an experienced, highly skilled and responsive team of professionals assisting corporate clients in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Member of the Paris Bar since 2004, Véronique Goncalves founded the firm in 2011 to provide tailored and business-focused legal assistance to corporate clients based in France and Africa for their projects on those two continents.

Following its successes in advising start-ups, SMEs/SMIs, mid-cap companies and multinationals in France and Africa, Elysée Avocats expanded its range of expertise to also provide legal and compliance-related advice and assistance to clients doing business in Asia.

To spearhead this development, Amélie Giuliani-Viallard joined as Partner in 2018. Amélie is member of the Paris Bar since 2004 and practiced as senior foreign counsel in the Seoul office of one of the most prominent Asian law firms for more than 6 years.

Thanks to the combined strong expertise of our professionals, the firm advises clients on business law, OHADA law and ethics and compliance-related issues.

Our strengths

A multidisciplinary and business-focused approach both in advisory and litigation to provide legal assistance in business law and ethics and compliance-related issues.

Expert knowledge of the political, economic and regulatory environment of the regions and markets where the firm operates.

A flexible and tailored assistance through a strong network of professionals in France (Legal Stones) and with local law firms in Africa and Asia sharing the same professional values, level of attention to clients’ interests.

Our team

The business partners for your projects in Europe, Africa and Asia.

Our expertise

Business Law
  • Corporate Law
  • Commercial Law
  • Dispute resolution and Litigation
  • Legal structuring, company incorporation and legal secretary

  • Legal and compliance-related due diligences, LOI, MOU, NDA, Shareholders’ agreement

  • Equity transactions (share capital increase and reduction, securities)

  • Business restructuring

  • Private equity

  • M&A, Spin-off, business/assets transfer

  • Corporate and commercial disputes (contracts, shareholders' disputes)

  • Civil and criminal liabilities (legal representatives, employees and company liability)
International Projects
  • Foreign Investments
  • JV/Strategic partnerships
  • International Contracts
  • Contract management
  • Investment and co-investment agreements

  • Joint-ventures, strategic partnerships and alliances

  • Consortium EPC contracts, FIDIC contracts, turnkey agreements

  • Assistance in contract management (updates and legal monitoring)
OHADA Law
  • Corporate Law
  • Contract Law
  • Arbitration
  • Commercial Mediation
  • Structuring, company incorporation and legal secretary in the OHADA area

  • Commercial contracts

  • Debt collection

  • M&A, Spin-off, business/assets transfer

  • Litigation
Ethics & Compliance
  • Corporate governance/CSR
  • Business ethics
  • Compliance
  • Data protection & GDPR
  • White collar criminality
  • Awareness campaigns, legal practical training

  • Code of conduct/ethics, risk assessment and management, compliance audits and programs

  • Management and employees’ training (data protection, anticorruption, anti-money laundering, human’s rights-related issues etc.)

  • Internal audits, third-party audits (suppliers, subcontractors and commercial partners)

  • Compliance programs

  • Regulatory and criminal investigations (investigations and legal procedures conducted by the European Union or French authorities (European Prosecutor office, French Prosecutor office) and regulators (AFA, CNIL, Autorité de la concurrence, etc.)

  • Crisis management
  • Corporate Law
  • Commercial Law
  • Dispute resolution and Litigation
  • Legal structuring, company incorporation and legal secretary

  • Legal and compliance-related due diligences, LOI, MOU, NDA, Shareholders’ agreement

  • Equity transactions (share capital increase and reduction, securities)

  • Business restructuring

  • Private equity

  • M&A, Spin-off, business/assets transfer

  • Corporate and commercial disputes (contracts, shareholders' disputes)

  • Civil and criminal liabilities (legal representatives, employees and company liability)
  • Foreign Investments
  • JV/Strategic partnerships
  • International Contracts
  • Contract management
  • Investment and co-investment agreements

  • Joint-ventures, strategic partnerships and alliances

  • Consortium EPC contracts, FIDIC contracts, turnkey agreements

  • Assistance in contract management (updates and legal monitoring)
  • Corporate Law
  • Contract Law
  • Arbitration
  • Commercial Mediation
  • Structuring, company incorporation and legal secretary in the OHADA area

  • Commercial contracts

  • Debt collection

  • M&A, Spin-off, business/assets transfer

  • Litigation
  • Corporate governance/CSR
  • Business ethics
  • Compliance
  • Data protection & GDPR
  • White collar criminality
  • Awareness campaigns, legal practical training

  • Code of conduct/ethics, risk assessment and management, compliance audits and programs

  • Management and employees’ training (data protection, anticorruption, anti-money laundering, human’s rights-related issues etc.)

  • Internal audits, third-party audits (suppliers, subcontractors and commercial partners)

  • Compliance programs

  • Regulatory and criminal investigations (investigations and legal procedures conducted by the European Union or French authorities (European Prosecutor office, French Prosecutor office) and regulators (AFA, CNIL, Autorité de la concurrence, etc.)

  • Crisis management

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