Wragge & Co plans Paris office

Wragge & Co LLP has unveiled plans to open an office in Paris. In a move which underlines the firm's international ambitions, Wragge & Co will join forces with a 10-partner team previously part of French independent firm Lefèvre Pelletier & associés.

Subject to approval from the Paris Bar, Wragge & Co's Paris office will open later this year. It will provide high-quality commercial advice and solutions across a range of disciplines. Areas of expertise include corporate, real estate, funds, tax, finance, commercial litigation, corporate recovery, IP and commercial contracts.

Senior partner Quentin Poole said: "This is an exciting development for Wragge & Co; part of an international strategy focused on providing clients with a high-quality service from Wragge & Co offices or trusted best friend firms."

The 10 partners are Pierre Appremont, David Blondel, Pierre-Emmanuel Chevalier, Arnaud Guérin, Laurent Jourdan, Eglantine Lioret, Simon Lowe, Jérôme Patenotte, Henry Ranchon and Philippe Rousseau. Their arrival will take the total number of partners in Wragge & Co's all-equity partnership to 121.

When the new Paris office opens, Wragge & Co will have six offices. These are Paris, London and Birmingham, an EU-law focused Brussels office, and intellectual property-led offices in Guangzhou and Munich.

Wragge & Co is a commercial law firm providing a full range of legal services to UK and international corporates and public sector organisations. The firm was ranked second in Legal Week's 2009 Client Satisfaction Report, scoring 9.4 out of 10 for quality of legal advice and 9 out of 10 for service delivery.

It is home to Managing Intellectual Property's European High-Tech Law Firm of the Year and The Lawyer's Employment Team of the Year. Wragge & Co was named Most Client-Focused Law Firm of the Year at the 2009 Legal Technology Awards. It is also the only firm to feature in the Financial Times's Top 50 Best Workplaces in the UK.