About us

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Lawyers

With trust comes audacity

We are lawyers who are partners to our clients. Our cross-sector approach is at the heart of all our actions, allowing us to define innovative solutions adapted to each of our clients.

Network

International

Vatier dedicates a significant part of its activity to files with an international dimension, either by assisting foreign clients in their operations in France, or by intervening in cross-border operations by ensuring the coordination of all the foreign players involved.

Expertise

Our strength, transversality

Vatier is a multidisciplinary team boasting complementary skills, with expertise recognised in various business sectors. We are active in France and abroad.

Arbitration and Criminal business law

Arbitration has long been a hallmark of our firm. Bernard Vatier has been acting as arbitrator or as counsel to the parties in domestic...

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Banking and Insurance

Both in advisory and litigation, our team has developed a significant practice in insurance law. Our team represents all types...

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Corporate Law – Mergers and Acquisitions

We assist companies from their incorporation to their winding-up, by dealing with their day-to-day corporate issues...

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Real estate

We advise all players in the real estate sector, whether in construction law, commercial leases, residential leases...

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Digital, Technologies and Commercial contracts

Always mindful of the needs of our clients, we support them in their digital, technological, commercial and industrial projects...

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Restructuring and Companies in difficulty

Our Restructuring and Companies in difficulty department has developed significant business in insolvency law and intervenes as...

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Health

We work for public and private healthcare establishments, healthcare companies, manufacturers and distributors...

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Labour Law

Our team is made up of experienced lawyers specialising in employment law (labour law – social security law)...

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Team

Multidisciplinarityand complementarity - Our Lawyer Team

News

Our latest news

Sixteen years after the adoption of Law No. 2009-879 of 21 July 2009, known as the ‘Hospitals, Patients, Health and Territories’ Act, the legal nature of public healthcare institutions remained shrouded in persistent doctrinal uncertainty. Whilst the 2009 reform had undoubtedly strengthened their ties to…
Court of Cassation, 3rd Civil Chamber, 8 January 2026, No. 23-22.803 The general principle: an out-of-court expert report is not sufficient on its own An out-of-court expert report commissioned at the request of a single party, even if that party is a party to the…
Cass. com., 7 January 2026, No. 23-22.723 and No. 24-13.163 Introduction In two rulings handed down on 7 January 2026, the Commercial Chamber of the Court of Cassation put an end to the legal ambiguity surrounding the status of digital platforms: a platform that actively…