The Steering Legal has advised Action Hotels Company in the conversion from a management model to a franchise one and negotiating the franchise agreements for its portfolio of 9 operating hotels, representing 1,603 key-rooms under AccorHotels brands across the Middle East (Kuwait, Bahrain, UAE Dubai & Sharjah, Oman and Jordan). Action Hotels Company is a Dubai based company, leading owner, developer and asset manager of branded three- and four-star hotels in the Middle East and Australia, and currently operating fourteen hotels providing a total of around 2,500 rooms. Action Hotels Company is the hospitality subsidiary of Kuwaiti group Action Group[...]

According to the Décideurs magazine, the Social Departement of Steering Legal, headed by the partner Gwenaëlle Artur, has distinguished itself in the 5 following areas of practice : High risk litigation and Criminal Labor Law, ranked as Highly Renowned Restructuring, redundacy plans and associated litigation, ranked as Quality Practice Social management of F&A and social auditing, ranked as Best Practice Collective bargaining and labour relations, ranked as Best Practice Representation of Executives, ranked as Best Practice    

According to the Décideurs magazine, the Tax Departement of Steering Legal, headed by the partner Jean-François Bette, has distinguished itself in the 4 following areas of practice : Tax audit and assistance in recovery, ranked as Highly Renowned Taxation of transactions, ranked as Highly Renowned Taxation of international groups, ranked as Highly Renowned Taxation of assets, ranked as Quality Practice  

On April 21, Sébastien Fleury, a Steering Legal partner, answers questions asked by landlords and tenants in the midst of a period of confinement in L'Usine nouvelle. Read the 10 questions and answers published in L'Usine nouvelle  

Our firm has been ranked in the 2020 rankings of the magazine Décideurs for our activity in Technology, Internet & Telecommunications, Personal Data Law. The practice is headed by Stéphanie Berland, partner Steering Legal Paris.    

Our Litigation & Arbitration division has been awarded, in 2020 by Décideurs, both in: commercial litigation, in the category of reputed practice international arbitration, in the category  High profile.    

Our Litigation & Arbitration activity has been ranked in Strong notoriety for international arbitration cases in the Décideurs magazine's 2020 rankings.    

Jean-François Bette, who joined the Paris office in the first quarter of 2019, heads the firm's tax practice.  

The firm has been classified as a Strong Notorious for its activity in the field of taxation of international groups for 2019 by Décideurs. This is our 4th distinction obtained in the tax field as we were also distinguished this year in transaction taxation, asset taxation, tax litigation and assistance to recovery. The tax department is headed by Jean-François Bette, who joined us in Paris as a partner at the beginning of 2019.    

The firm is classified as a Highly Recognized Firm, for its 2019 activity related to the taxation of transactions, by the Décideurs rankings. Our Tax department is headed by Jean-François BETTE, a partner in Steering Legal Paris, who joined the firm at the beginning of 2019.