Jean-Pierre Viennois is the founder and managing partner of Bremens Avocats. He assists French and foreign corporate groups, industrial and commercial companies, in connection with corporate matters including M&A, external growth transactions, corporate reorganizations, private equity, fund raising and other financial law issues.
Jean-Pierre is involved in the Bank and Finance department of Bremens Avocats Notaires, a dedicated team composed of lawyers and notaries handling a wide range of real estate transactions, both national and international and advising a clientele of banks, financial institutions and investment funds established within and outside the European Union, where he works notably on financial regulatory issues.
As a professor of law at the University of Lyon, he has been teaching courses on French, European and international corporate law for fifteen years. He used to teach European and French corporate law for American students in several american universities (Chapel Hill (NC), Athens (GA), Baton Rouge (LA)).
Jean-Pierre has spoken several times in recent year at academic conferences on international corporate law.
With offices in Lyon and Paris, Bremens Avocats advises and defends French and international clients in relation to corporate and commercial law matters.
The firm has developed a strong and recognized expertise in the health sector by advising public and private health institutions, physicians groups, medical device manufacturers. It is also very involved in the real estate and construction sectors. In addition, it regularly intervenes in industry, distribution, banking and finance.
Bremens Avocats’ international practice covers all its main fields of expertise and industries and extends to every continent.
The firm is composed of around fifty people, including thirty lawyers, two university professors and two university lecturers, all of whom are specialised in a specific area of law.
Our firm has been recognized by the Décideurs rating agency as one of the leading business law firms in France (ranking 2022-23). It is recorded as Excellent in Mergers & Acquisitions by Décideurs magazine (2023).
On November 9th, 2023, Bremens Avocats has been awarded law firm of the year by the Palmarès du Droit Trophy in five fields of expertise, including Corporate M&A Private Equity, Banking Finance Insurance, Health law, Wealth Management and Employment Law.
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