Practice area
Sygna Partners offers complementary skills to companies in various fields of law, and particularly economic law. It assists companies in their legal environment as well as in their strategic decision-making, notably in the case of changes or crisis.
An expertise
in economic law
Merger and acquisitions, Company Law, Law of associations, foundations and mutual funds.
Temporary administration, “conciliation”, insolvency proceedings, restructuring...
Competition, distribution, regulated activities law and consumer law.
Negotiation, drafting of deeds, review of contractual documentation, resolution...
Public international law, European Union law, commercial and investment arbitration...
Sectors
Sygna Partners' clients include small and medium-sized companies, groups and listed companies, as well as foreign States. The firm has acquired a significant experience in various sectors such as the social and solidarity economy, communication technology, media, finance and aeronautics, and has solid experience in the practice of international litigation.
Sygna advises media and communication groups by offering them a global approach to the legal issues they face and advising them on issues of company law, specific regulations applicable to this sector, and helping them in selecting the legal tools that promote corporate restructuring. Sygna has participated in the creation and development of audiovisual groups.Sygna advises media and communication groups by offering them a global approach to the legal issues they face and advising them on issues of company law, specific regulations applicable to this sector, and helping them in selecting the legal tools that promote corporate restructuring. Sygna has participated in the creation and development of audiovisual groups.
Sygna Partners advises entrepreneurs in the constitution of their projects (choice of structure, status of the manager) and its development, in particular by supporting them in their fundraising activities. As a partner of Ticket For Change, Sygna supports the projects of men and women who are passionate about their projects, with a strong sense of entrepreneurship and who wish to develop projects in the context of the social and solidarity economy and sustainable development.
Sygna advises credit institutions and investment firms in their legal, social and regulatory environment, but also in disputes arising from their activities (debt collection, investment agreements, restructuring of financing, etc.).
The medico-social environment is rapidly changing, this phenomenon leads to failures and groupings in which Sygna participates by supporting the various actors in the sector.
Sygna assists and advises aeronautical trading and maintenance companies in an international context through the drafting of contracts for the purchase and sale of aircraft, their general terms and conditions of sale, the establishment of guarantees through the International Registry created by the Cape Town Convention, and in the management of their internal and transnational litigation.
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The firm
Sygna Partners was founded in 2004 by Nathalie Rigal and Caroline Edwardes-Ker with a focus on corporate rights.
It has chosen to remain an average structure (20 lawyers). It built strong teams composed of complementary talents and skills, adapted to the customers’ needs. It has also forged partnerships with other consulting professionals (tax advisors, chartered accountants, legal representatives, experts, etc.).
Our philosophy
Sygna's expertise is based on legal knowledge, know-how and experience shared within its teams; supported by a continuous monitoring of legal developments; and combined with regular practice with judges and other professionals. It also contributes to a reflection on the legal profession echoing in its practice and from which two main lessons can be drawn: the lawyer is both an advisor and an auxiliary of justice. The advising mission requires a good understanding of situations and effects, a risk analysis and the capacity of making proposals that will inform and facilitate the clients' decision. As an auxiliary of justice, a lawyer must, through its interventions, deontology and ethics, participate in the regulation of the economic and social life of its clients. He or she must remain open and curious, understand the environment and the context of the situations on which he or she is solicited and share his or her convictions.
"The lawyer is first of all
an adviser"
Recruitement
Sygna Partners is constantly looking for new talents, particularly student lawyers or trainee lawyers, who are keen on developing their qualities and autonomy by fully integrating into a young, dynamic and human-scale structure.
Student lawyers and trainee lawyers will have tasks corresponding to their level of training and specialization. Their mission will be to draft legal notes and assist the lawyers in their cases. They will have the opportunity to draft acts in company law, draft conclusions and summonses, follow procedures to prevent corporate difficulties or participate in the development of legal strategies.
Please feel free to send your résumé and a covering letter to the following address: sygna@sygna.fr
Contact
If you wish to contact us or make an appointment with one of our lawyers, please use the following contact details:
Sygna Partners
Société d’Avocats
4 rue du Colonel Driant
75 001 Paris
+ 33 (0)1 70 39 39 39