MANDEL – ASSOCIES is a full service commercial law firm located in the heart of Paris (France) with more than forty years of seniority. We are a team of experienced and highly qualified attorneys in corporate and business law, commercial litigation, franchise and distributorship law, intellectual property and the Internet, labor and finally immigration law.

With our expertise and dedication to our practice, we achieve our clients’ goals without the overstaffing and changing cast of professionals that one finds at many larger firms.

Our clients include French and international companies, public agencies and non-profit organizations.

In our field of expertise, we work with our clients to establish and structure companies, to develop and implement labor and employment law policies and practices, to protect and defend their intellectual property rights and to assist them in the drafting of all their contracts (commercial agencies, distributorships, franchise, licensing, technology transfers).

Our foreign clients particularly appreciate our substantive experience in the following areas:

• Setting up of companies and of their distribution networks;
• Ongoing legal advice in corporate and labor law;
• Bringing senior management personnel into France;
• Commercial litigation and settlement of disputes;
• Intellectual property litigation and counseling (including filings in France and in the European Union).

Finally, to serve our clients in all of Europe, our firm has been an active member for more than 20 years in EUROLEGAL, a network of European lawyers – with 16 countries represented, with 22 law firms and 31 offices throughout the EU.

Our lawyers are members of the following Associations:

AIDV (International Wine Law Association)

APRAM (Association of practitioners of trademarks and designs)

CCIFJ (French Chamber of Commerce in Japan)

CCIJF (Japanese Chamber of Commerce in France)

EUROLEGAL (network of European lawyers)

IABA (International Association of Boalt Alumni – UC Berkeley)

IPBA (Inter-Pacific Bar Association)

FKCCI (French Chamber of Commerce in Korea)