DE FORESTA AVOCATS is a French law firm specialising in all aspects of company and commercial law, employment law and social security law. We work side-by-side with French and foreign companies and their directors in their day-to-day business.
Our lawyers provide comprehensive and multidisciplinary legal services in France and abroad, enriched by their diverse origins and experiences.
Our global yet detailed approach to each client matter means our lawyers are able to offer specific, adapted and effective legal services tailored to each individual client and their circumstances.
The size and strength of our firm guarantees that our lawyers can react and engage quickly for the benefit of our clients, with the aim of building and maintaining long-term, sustainable professional relationships of shared values and trust.
We provide legal services to our clients in the following areas:
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Social Security Law - Social Protection and Professional Risk
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Corporate Law - Mergers and Acquisitions Business transfers and reorganisation
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Commercial and Business law - Commercial Contracts
Social Security Law - Social Protection and Professional Risk
De Foresta Avocats has developed specific expertise in professional risk within the particularly technical and complex area of social security regulation, which is made up of several distinct branches of social protection.
Accidents at work or occupational diseases (AW/OD) can generate significant financial cost for companies because cases can lead to an increase in social security contribution rates and a finding of a “faute inexcusable” (professional negligence).
Our lawyers have developed sophisticated technical and legal expertise to help you manage your professional risk issues and assist you at the specialised courts. We also partner with a network of doctors specialising in the provision of medico-legal expert opinion.
Our lawyers will also act:
• In the area of prevention: health and safety at work rules, monitoring the work control officer;
• To analyse your pricing upon notification of your AW/OD contribution rate;
• As soon as an accident at work occurs or an occupational disease is declared in your company and throughout investigation of the case by the Primary sickness insurance fund (CPAM);
• In the management of sick leave;
• In the management of annuities charged to the employer account;
• In the management of a “faute inexcusable” (professional negligence);
• For the recovery of contributions unduly paid to the French social security contributions office (URSSAF).
We will represent and assist you at:
• The general litigation courts: the appeals board of the French primary sickness insurance fund (CPAM) and the French social security contributions office (URSSAF), the social security tribunal (TASS) and the Court of Appeal;
• The courts for pricing disputes: the French health and pensions fund (CARSAT) and the French national court for incapacity and the insurance pricing of work accidents (CNITAAT) ;
• The courts for technical dispute resolution: the French incapacity dispute court (TCI), and the above CNITAAT.
International and Foreign Law - POLAND
Due to his long-established experience, Guy DE FORESTA has have developed a network of contacts in the main Polish cities. When needed, we are able to integrate their skills into our client projects and, working together, have available the specific expertise for operating Franco-Polish partnerships under French, Polish, European or International law.
Our dual Franco-Polish legal expertise enables us to understand the global nature of our clients’ requirements and avoid any misunderstandings stemming from differences between the two cultures.
Our law firm accompany companies in their industrial and commercial transactions between France and Poland.
Its work involves putting in place and optimising legal, tax and corporate frameworks that are specifically adapted to these projects.
In this context, we deal with complex transactions involving France and Poland, such as acquisitions, transfers, joint ventures and generally all forms of partnership, testifying to the richness of exchanges and business opportunities that exist between these two countries.
De Foresta Avocats
20 rue Berjon
69009 LYON
FRANCE
Tel: +33 (0)4 81 09 19 50
Fax: +33 (0)4 78 26 04 87