Business
Fidal's Besançon office offers comprehensive legal services in corporate law, mergers and acquisitions, and tax law, assisting local businesses with strategic and legal challenges. Led by Partner and Office Director Jean-Paul Gros, the team provides multidisciplinary advice tailored to clients' needs, supporting growth ambitions at regional, national, and international levels.
Banking & Finance
Fidal's Besançon office offers comprehensive legal services in banking and finance, assisting clients with regulatory compliance, financial transactions, and risk management. Their team provides tailored advice to navigate complex financial regulations and structures, supporting businesses in achieving their financial objectives.
Civil & Human Rights
Fidal's Besançon office provides comprehensive legal services in civil and human rights law, assisting clients with issues such as discrimination, freedom of expression, and privacy rights. Their team offers strategic advice and representation to individuals and organizations, ensuring the protection and enforcement of fundamental rights.
Consumer Rights
Fidal's Distribution & Consumer Law practice assists clients in navigating the complexities of modern consumer rights and distribution strategies. With a team of over 100 specialized lawyers across France, they provide comprehensive support throughout the distribution chain-from production to retail-addressing challenges such as digital market evolution, changing consumer expectations, and omnichannel distribution. Their services include advising on sourcing and distribution strategies, negotiating and drafting commercial agreements, and ensuring compliance with antitrust regulations. Leveraging their extensive sector-specific knowledge and multidisciplinary expertise, Fidal delivers tailored solutions that align with each client's unique business needs.
Criminal Defense
Fidal's Besançon office provides comprehensive criminal defense services, assisting clients through all stages of criminal proceedings. Their legal team offers strategic counsel and representation, ensuring the protection of clients' rights and interests. With a deep understanding of criminal law, they handle a wide range of cases, from minor offenses to complex criminal matters, aiming to achieve the most favorable outcomes for their clients.
Employment & Labor
Fidal's Besançon office offers comprehensive employment and labor law services, assisting businesses with strategic and legal challenges in this domain. Their team of business lawyers and legal experts provides multidisciplinary advice tailored to clients' needs, ensuring compliance with labor regulations and fostering positive employer-employee relationships.
Insurance
Fidal's Besançon office provides comprehensive legal services in the insurance sector, assisting clients with contract drafting, regulatory compliance, and claims management. Their team offers tailored advice to insurance companies, brokers, and policyholders, ensuring effective risk assessment and dispute resolution. Leveraging a multidisciplinary approach, they address the complex challenges of the insurance industry, supporting clients in both advisory and litigation matters.
Intellectual Property
Fidal's Besançon office offers specialized intellectual property services, assisting clients in protecting, exploiting, and maximizing the value of their intangible assets, including trademarks, patents, copyrights, and designs. The team provides comprehensive support, from conducting IP asset audits and financial valuations to managing filings, monitoring, and drafting licensing agreements. They also represent clients in litigation at the French, EU, and international levels, ensuring tailored solutions that align with each client's commercial strategy and business environment.
Lawsuits & Disputes
Fidal's Besançon office offers comprehensive legal services in lawsuits and disputes, assisting clients through all stages of litigation, from pre-litigation risk assessments to representation before national and supranational courts. Their expertise encompasses public contract disputes, administrative liability, and public employee litigation. The team also provides support in alternative dispute resolution methods, including mediation and arbitration, ensuring tailored strategies that align with each client's specific needs.
Real Estate
Fidal's Besançon office offers comprehensive real estate legal services, assisting clients through every phase of property transactions and development. Their team provides expert guidance on urban planning, environmental compliance, contract negotiation, and construction oversight. They also specialize in commercial leases, advising both investors and tenants on drafting, negotiation, and dispute resolution. Additionally, their tax specialists offer strategic advice on selecting optimal tax regimes and structures for real estate investments. Clients benefit from a dedicated point of contact who coordinates a multidisciplinary team to deliver tailored solutions.
Media, Technology and Telecoms
Fidal's Besançon office offers specialized legal services in the Media, Technology, and Telecommunications (TMT) sector, assisting clients with complex and evolving legal challenges arising from technological innovations. The firm provides agile and creative counsel on digitalization projects, e-commerce, innovation, connected human resources, and personal or digital data matters. Their solutions are tailored to meet specific market obligations across all areas of business law, ensuring compliance with legal texts and effective risk management, particularly concerning personal data and consumer law.
Corporate & Commercial
Fidal's Besançon office provides comprehensive corporate and commercial legal services, assisting local businesses with mergers and acquisitions, corporate restructuring, and contract negotiation. The team, led by partners such as Jean-Paul Gros and Delphine Lambert, offers tailored advice to navigate complex legal challenges, ensuring clients achieve their strategic objectives.
Energy, Environment & ESG
Fidal's Environmental Law team in Besançon provides comprehensive legal support to industrial companies, real estate professionals, financial institutions, and project owners facing complex environmental regulations. Their services include assisting with administrative applications, managing operational incidents, and overseeing site decommissioning and rehabilitation. By integrating environmental considerations into business operations, they help clients mitigate risks, ensure legal compliance, and capitalize on opportunities presented by environmental law.
Private Client
Fidal's Besançon office offers specialized services in private client matters, assisting individuals and business owners with comprehensive wealth management strategies. Their expertise encompasses civil law, family and inheritance law, wealth management, tax, and private international law, enabling them to provide tailored solutions for asset organization, succession planning, and international investments. By adopting a forward-looking and cross-disciplinary approach, they help clients define and implement wealth strategies aligned with personal situations and long-term objectives, ensuring legal and fiscal security over time.
