Our client are mainly private companies among which industries, service companies, construction industries, real estate professionals, investors, financial institutions.
Our firm is perfectly aware of the operational specificities of private companies, being equally called by all kind of departments (human resources, executive management, legal department, technical department).
From reporting to design to cost, our services are specifically adapted to our client’s constraints and requirement and we offer a full financial transparency regarding our fees.
We have developed a tailored service offering for our lawyer colleagues, notaries, court administrators and judicial representatives, and any kind of legal and accounting professionals (insurer, auditors, certified accountants, consultants, legal experts…) who do not have internal skills in French public law.
We offer long-time partnership possibilities, with a non-competition agreement since we do not diversify our activities beyond the public law scope. Hence, we can provide services as co-contractors or subcontractors, submitted to the same principles of confidentiality, absence of conflict of interest and expertise as for any of our clients.
Our firm also provides representation services for attorney colleagues, in front of any jurisdiction of Parisian’s district, or in front of any French or European administrative or financial jurisdiction, to manage every part of the public law procedure.
Our firm provides to our clients internal legal training courses, to keep up with the constant evolution of legal and practical news, either as a support for decision process, or to raise awareness on legal issues that could impact operational activities of our clients.
Our firm is a boutique business law firm dedicated to public law practice for private economic operators (companies and legal and accounting professionals).
Our firm has been built by founding partners who used to work together in a renowned French and International business law firm, driven by the will to make the experience and requirement level of a big business law firm, accessible to all our clients.
Our firm is labeled by all the major legal firm ranking (Legal 500, Chambers & Partners, Best Lawyers, Le Point des meilleurs cabinets d’avocats en France).
Due to a perfect understanding of how entrepreneurship and how business works for private companies, our firm offers crosscutting analyses that give operational and “tailor-made” solutions to our client.
We are concerned to give only exploitable counseling, with no fear to underline inappropriate solutions or, in contrast, to highlight unexplored solutions.
Our team is a tight-knit group: the founding partners have worked together in a renowned French and International business law firm before they decide to create the firm SCHMITT Avocats together.
The team is now completed with faithful and steady associates; so our clients can profit from exclusive contacts and a relationship of trust with their lawyers.
Each file is always treated in pairs, to secure our legal solutions.
Also, our partners benefit from a broad network of trusted and selected business associates, for each file that could exceed the sole boundaries of public law (including criminal law, commercial law, accountancy…).
We have a very strong sense of the notion of conflict of interest, which we prevent not only regarding the sole requirements of our profession, but also regarding the commercial interests.
We are used to work with sensitive files and set up all precautions to preserve the high confidentiality for each one our file with no distinction.
Being bound to a duty of competence and diligence, our firm does not induce to unnecessary purchase and we do not hesitate to refuse files we would not be able to treat with all the requirements needed. In that case, we naturally direct our clients to colleagues or business partners fully able to treat the file.