Wilson Elser maintains a dedicated France Practice that provides legal assistance to companies and individuals with business interests in or involving France and its 13 territories.

France Practice members include attorneys throughout our office network who are native speakers or fluent in French and familiar with applicable statutes, regulations and treaties. They coordinate with Wilson Elser and Legalign Global alliance colleagues as dictated by the venue and nature of a matter.

Focused principally on insurance defense, we represent several large French carriers and their insureds. We also defend self-insured companies in a cross-section of industries including:

With collective decades of related experience, members of our France Practice enjoy an enviable record of successfully managing and mitigating risk. While most legal disciplines reside within the practice team, we draw on resources throughout the broader firm or within Legalign Global as best suits our clients’ needs.

Legalign Global is a close alliance of some of the world’s leading insurance law firms, responding directly and effectively to our clients’ need for high levels of service and efficiency wherever matters arise. Wilson Elser works closely with other member firms to provide legal services beyond the United States. This is of particular importance to French companies and carriers whose products and services increasingly garner worldwide recognition.

We also work with various French parties on transactional matters specifically relative to commercial contracts and agreements, mergers and acquisitions, art law and intellectual property. Practice members enjoy considerable related experience and, as with insurance defense, bring to bear the applicable skills of colleagues in other functional and geographic areas.

With a growing, outward-reaching economy, the third-largest foreign employer in the United States continues to see a rise in French insurance claims, related litigation and transactional needs. Our practice attorneys can help companies and individuals navigate the complex legal issues arising in – or between – our two countries.