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The Firm
A firm built for exceptional situations.
A lean structure, academic and United Nations authority, a worldwide network of correspondents: the firm brings together everything that cases at the intersection of law, diplomacy and power dynamics demand. A selective practice, personal involvement, absolute discretion.
Five doors into who we are: the doctrine that guides the practice, the founder, the team and its network, the emergency response mechanism, and the architecture of the engagement.
The Firm
The firm, through five doors.
Approach, Founder, Team, Crisis Room, The Engagement: what the firm believes, who carries it, how it mobilises in an emergency and within what framework it commits.
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Approach
International law as a field of forces. Reading the lines of tension, identifying the tipping points, mobilising the law as an instrument of protection, strategy and rebalancing: the firm's doctrine, set out.
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Founder
Ludovic Hennebel. International lawyer, professor of international law at Aix-Marseille Université, elected expert of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights: a threefold authority in the service of the most sensitive cases.
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Team
An elite team, an international network. A close circle of leading jurists, international lawyers, professors and UN experts, supported by a worldwide network of correspondents mobilised according to the jurisdiction and the nature of the crisis.
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Crisis Room · Praesidium
Emergency legal intervention. Some situations cannot wait for a firm's ordinary timeframes. The first hours often determine the range of options available: a defined protocol, from legal characterisation to a consolidated strategic plan.
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The Engagement
Fees and strategic engagement. The engagement is not a pricing schedule: it defines the architecture of an intervention, its scope, its terms and its economics, formalised in a written fee agreement before any assignment begins.
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The Firm
An international practice, rooted in a place of work, silence and strategy.
A situation to present? Let us talk.
Exposed individual, executive, business, sovereign entity, political figure, family of a targeted person or correspondent firm: from the moment you make contact, the firm examines the situation as a matter of priority and may arrange an initial confidential orientation discussion to assess the critical deadlines and identify the relevant options. The initial discussion entails no mutual commitment. In French, English and Spanish.