The Paris Office of Jones Day opened in 1970.  Our lawyers advise a wide range of U.S., French, and other multinational clients on domestic and cross-border matters.  Our clients include major corporate groups, as well as banks and financial institutions, investment funds (including private equity, real estate and venture capital funds), public agencies and entities, and other institutional clients.  The Paris Office has more than 90 lawyers, including 18 partners.

Jones Day lawyers in Paris are well positioned to serve the Firm’s clients— both locally and globally.  We provide a complete range of legal services, including mergers and acquisitions; venture capital and private equity; equity and debt capital markets; banking and finance; restructuring and insolvency; real estate; environmental, health and safety; tax; EU and French competition law; French public and administrative law; commercial litigation; international arbitration; intellectual property; and labor law.

Through Jones Day’s One Firm Worldwide approach, our Paris lawyers are integrated into our global organization of more than 2,500 lawyers in 32 offices.  This affords our clients not only a global reach, but also seamless access to substantial legal resources wherever needed.  Our European network of offices includes more than 400 lawyers in Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Milan, Moscow, and Munich.  All Paris Office lawyers are fluent in French and English, and many are fluent in other languages as well.

The lawyers of Jones Day's Paris Office are committed not only to their clients, but also to their community.  Our lawyers, as part of our pro bono program, assist with all the corporate secretary work of both Helen Keller International (“HKI”) and Helen Keller International - Europe, including management reports and minutes of meetings, amendments to articles of association, and corporate formalities.  Recently, Jones Day provided assistance on all corporate formalities related to the corporate sponsorship of Helen Keller International by Total, the oil and gas company, which will facilitate the creation of HKI centers in Burma and Singapore.