Our Heritage

 

From our beginnings in Paris in 1978, the founders’ vision was to build a different kind of international law firm. They created a firm that combined the skills of European civil law and Anglo-American common law, which was underpinned by a commitment to help clients seize opportunities in the market, wherever they may be based.

As Carl Salans, one of the firm’s three founders, (alongside Jeffrey Hertzfeld and Eliane Heilbronn), explains: 

“We have lawyers of over twenty nationalities who speak over thirty languages with offices made up predominantly of local lawyers. This allows us to advise clients in ways that provide greater understanding of a nation's style of thinking and problem-solving, as well as its legal system.”

“We've no head office, and no one national culture dominates the rest, allowing us to work without demarcation lines between offices and practices and to focus all our efforts on providing clients with a globally-integrated service. I think this structure also helps us to bridge cultural, linguistic, and legal traditions better than other firms.”