Practice Areas

Our firm represents buyers and sellers in acquisitions of companies or businesses, in French or international transactions, the negotiation and drafting of preliminary agreements concerning legal and regulatory audits, Share Sale Agreements and representations and warranties, as well as shareholder agreements and related agreements.

Structural operations of companies: partnerships / joint ventures, loan and guarantee contracts, distribution, EU and competition law, legal and functional audits.

Corporate, legal assistance, restructuring of debts and litigation, restructuring of assets and activities, social law and environment.

With over thirty years experience in arbitration involving governments and foreign investors, we are experienced in this sector that is becoming ever more important on the international level and within the firm.

In addition to matters referred to in connection with "BITs", we have also dealt with arbitrations involving States where no BIT applied.

Philip Kimbrough acts as arbitrator in institutional, UNCITRAL and ad hoc arbitrations, appointed by the parties or appointed by the ICC, AAA or PCA in matters involving Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa and the Indian Ocean.

We have extensive French and international experience acting as counsel in institutional and ad hoc arbitrations in Europe and Russia, North America, Africa and Asia.

Experience in international arbitrations, involving oil and gas, minerals, infrastructure projects, government contracts, corporate and joint-venture issues, public tenders in the communications industry and international construction projects.

Our firm represents litigants in the French and international judicial proceedings and also assists clients in proceedings relating to conflicts of jurisdiction and enforcement of arbitration decisions and judgments.

The firm Kimbrough & Associés has had, since its inception, an intellectual property practice, aware of the growing personal and economic value that these rights represent both for individuals and for professionals.

Our firm has a particular expertise in the area of protection of literary and artistic works, providing advice as well as representation before the courts. Our clients include not only authors and performers, their successors-in-interest and associations which represent them, but also those exploiting works, in particular, production companies and publishers.

Our firm is experienced in providing advice and representation in legal proceedings in matters involving industrial property, such as patents, trademarks and know-how, in the context of transactions and litigation, mergers and acquisitions or contract negotiation and drafting. We work in close cooperation with engineers and other industrial property specialists.

Our firm participates, in transactions focusing on computer technology, including security programs involving encryption, in negotiations and drafting of licenses, distribution agreements and joint ventures, in diverse industries.

As part of our firm's activity in the area of new technologies, we provide advice and assistance in relation to the full spectrum of internet issues, from the creation of start-ups through contract assistance.