IFLR 1000
The Guide to the World's Leading Financial Law Firms

	Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer Linklaters Slaughter and May
	Allen & Overy Ashurst Clifford Chance Gleiss Lutz Hogan Lovells Latham & Watkins Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom Van Bael & Bellis White & Case
	Arnold & Porter Baker & McKenzie Bonelli Erede Pappalardo Bredin Prat Cuatrecasas Gonçalves Pereira Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Gide Loyrette Nouel Hengeler Mueller Herbert Smith Jones Day McDermott Will & Emery/Stanbrook O'Melveny & Myers Shearman & Sterling Sidley Austin Stibbe Uría Menéndez Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale & Dorr
	Bird & Bird Covington & Burling Eubelius Garrigues Loyens & Loeff Macfarlanes Mannheimer Swartling NautaDutilh Norton Rose Salans Squire Sanders Hammonds Vinge

Bredin Prat's five-partner practice is based in Paris and Brussels and led by Marc Pittie. The firm is best known for merger work and is part of the 'best-friends' network which includes Slaughter and May, Hengeler Mueller, Bonelli Erede Pappalardo, Uría Menéndez and De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek.... [more]

Bredin Prat's five-partner practice is based in Paris and Brussels and led by Marc Pittie. The firm is best known for merger work and is part of the 'best-friends' network which includes Slaughter and May, Hengeler Mueller, Bonelli Erede Pappalardo, Uría Menéndez and De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek. One of the firm's selling points is its partner to associate ratio.

The firm advised on some of the biggest merger cases in Europe last year, among them the merger of the orange juice businesses of Brazilian companies Votorantium Group and Fischer Group (two of the four biggest suppliers) and Schneider Electric's €5 billion acquisition of Areva T&D.

In other merger work, the firm was engaged by Lactalis Group on the acquisition of the Spanish assets of Puleva and SNPE on the sale of the SAFRAN assets. In merger related work, the firm was also helping GDF Suez appeal a fine for a late notification of an effective acquisition of CNR.

In cartel related work, in 2011 the firm was busy advising ArecelorMittal subsidiary Actalis in the Commission prestressed steel case to reduce a fine by 80%.

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