Business Sectors

Fashion & Textile Industries

Our firm provides legal advice and representation before tribunals in matters concerning the fashion industry, ranging from distribution and manufacture through intellectual property.

• Preparation and negotiation of distribution agreements in the French fashion industry.
• Ongoing counsel to an international women's ready-to-wear company, partnered with a German group, distributing a mid- to high-end product to a very broad clientele in France and abroad.
• Defense of a fashion designer in litigation against infringement of its creations.
• Advice to a major department store in Paris with regard to the transfer to it of rights relating to graphics identifying the store, in the context of a contract with the heirs of the American creator of such graphics.
• Negotiation and drafting of contracts in relation to the formation of a subsidiary for a French multinational.
• Representation, in the United States, of a designer of luxury leather goods against infringement of its creations.
• Legal analysis of the transfer of rights relating to logos of a French company.
• Defense of a fashion model whose image, reproduced from a television advertisement for a well-known French beverage manufacturer, was used without authorization on record album covers and postcards, including negotiation of a settlement agreement.
• Study, for a cosmetics manufacturer, of the legal feasibility, under European Community law, of the establishment of a distribution network in Europe.
• Legal analysis of files concerning the acquisition of companies in the fashion industry.
• Counsel to foreign subsidiaries in the fashion industry.
• Advice and litigation before the Prud'hommes and commercial courts, concerning assistance to franchisers and to their network of franchisees.