The team whose names appear on your engagement letter.

Jean-Pierre Durand founded the firm in 2004 after seven years as a business lawyer at an Anglo-Saxon firm in Paris, then two years as in-house general counsel at a listed industrial group. This dual trajectory — external counsel and operational in-house — gives him a reading of transactions that extends beyond the strict legal perimeter.

He leads the firm's most complex M&A files and advises management committees on governance matters. He does not delegate critical phases: negotiation, final drafting, closing. His practice is exclusively business law.

Isabelle Renard-Maret joined the firm in 2009 after five years at a Parisian firm specialising in commercial litigation. She leads the firm's litigation and arbitration practice, with particular experience in disputes touching on intellectual property rights and unfair competition.

She also serves as arbitrator in ICC proceedings involving French and German parties, and is a member of the French Arbitration Committee. Her litigation files settle in 70% of cases — a figure that reflects the strength of preparation, not reluctance to argue.

Antoine Veyrier practised for four years in New York at a top-tier US firm before joining Durand & Associés in 2011. He leads the international contracts practice and co-leads cross-border M&A transactions with Jean-Pierre Durand.

His Columbia Law School training and New York experience allow him to work on transactions governed by English or US law, and to negotiate in English in environments where legal precision is leverage — not a translation exercise.