Public law

Our Public Law team assists and advises public-sector clients (central and decentralized administrations), as well as private-sector clients (from VSEs to multinationals) and international clients, on all their public law issues and challenges. We also represent our clients in disputes before the administrative and judicial courts.

We have a renowned expertise in the following areas, in particular:

Innovative partnerships and complex contractual arrangements (development, public facilities and infrastructures, etc.):

• Procurement and implementation of all types of public contracts;
• Development, urban planning and commercial planning law;
• Public property law, eminent domain and pre-emption procedures;
• Environmental law;
• Public finance, taxation and administrative liability;
• Public health, healthcare and medical-social law;
• Local government, civil service and electoral law.

This expertise is particularly extensive in the following sectors:

•     Transport (road, rail, air, space);
•     Retail;
•     Land and real estate management;
•     Public works and infrastructure, construction, liability and insurance;
•     Culture, education, hospitals;
•     Agriculture and industry;
•     Social and medical services.

Our team gives priority to practical, operational, and efficient advice, in response to our clients’ needs and ambitions, while conforming to their specific organization and activities.

The Public Law department is able to intervene at all stages of a project: legal feasibility, adaptation of town planning documents, financing, structuring of contract terms and assistance in their drafting, administrative authorizations, monitoring of contracts and their execution.

The team is ranked in The Legal 500 EMEA, Décideurs juridiques and Le Point.