Morning Avocats | Business Law Firm in Paris

We advise businesses, executives and investors on their most strategic matters. Grow. Innovate. Negotiate. Transform. Defend. At every stage, we turn the law into a lever for moving forward.

Your mission: Build. Innovate. Decide.
Ours: Secure the rest.

Start a business. Raise capital. Enter a new market. Develop a technology. Acquire a competitor. Resolve a dispute. Behind every matter is a decision that matters.

Our role is to give our clients the legal certainty and clarity they need to make decisions, take action and move forward with confidence.

Legal expertise in support of your ambitions

We bring together complementary areas of expertise to advise our clients at every stage of their development, in France and internationally.

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Corporate and M&A

Company formation, governance, fundraising, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings and capital markets transactions.

02

Tax

Corporate and executive taxation, transaction structuring, audits, wealth transfers, tax audits and tax disputes.

03

Employment

Individual and collective employment relations, restructurings, international mobility, senior executives, social security, employee benefits and disputes.

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Commercial Contracts

Negotiation, drafting and performance of strategic agreements, renegotiation, risk prevention and crisis management.

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Business Litigation

Civil, commercial, regulatory and criminal litigation, and alternative dispute resolution.

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Intellectual Property, Tech & Data

Intellectual property, technology, personal data and digital regulation

Complementary expertise, underpinned by a shared commitment to close client relationships, responsiveness and a thorough understanding of our clients' challenges.

Benjamin Jacob

IP, Tech & Data

Arnaud Giroire

Tax

Thierry Jestin

Tax

Roy Arakelian

Corporate & M&A

Denis Agranier

Employment

Benoît Descours

Litigation

Morning Avocats is a story of trust, high standards and teamwork, dedicated to serving its clients.

A shared history

Morning Avocats grew out of a simple desire: to keep working together, in a different way. We are lawyers who have known one another for many years. Some of us have worked together for almost twenty years. Through the matters we have handled and the years we have worked side by side, we have developed a shared way of practising law, founded on trust, high standards and the enjoyment of working as a team. Morning grew out of this history and our desire to write its next chapter together: an independent, close-knit firm that reflects who we are and in which each of us contributes their experience, expertise and personality.

A business law firm, one team

Morning marks a new day, but certainly not a new beginning. For many years, our lawyers have advised businesses, executives, entrepreneurs, investors and funds on their transactions, projects and disputes, in France and internationally. Morning brings together, within a single team, complementary expertise in M&A and corporate law, tax, employment, commercial contracts, litigation, intellectual property, technology and data. Trust forged over the years, a commitment to teamwork and shared high standards shape the way we work with businesses, executives, entrepreneurs, investors and funds: with clarity, pragmatism and solutions tailored to their needs.

"At Morning Avocats, we believe that the law is never an end in itself. Our role is to understand what our clients want to achieve and help them make it happen.

Every business has its own story, ambitions and challenges. We believe in direct relationships with our clients, clear analysis and recommendations that enable them to decide and act. Rigorous in our legal analysis, pragmatic in our solutions and fully committed to our clients: this is how we practise law.”

Our teams rank among the most highly regarded, as reflected in their DECIDEURS – LEADERS LEAGUE rankings:

Lawyers witha human touch

As well as their legal expertise, they take a people-centred approach to their work, based on listening, dialogue and a sense of community.