Fabrice Fages advises French and international clients and their US subsidiaries on complex commercial disputes and sensitive compliance and ESG matters.
Fabrice helps financial institutions, multinational companies, and French corporates to prevent and mitigate risk and to navigate litigation, including:
Fabrice also regularly helps clients implement compliance and ESG programs.
A versatile, internationally recognized lawyer, he draws on both extensive experience appearing before judges and well-honed negotiation skills to avoid litigation. Fabrice brings a business sensibility to help clients navigate crisis management, cross-border and French law compliance-related issues. With a broad perspective on complex disputes, he offers clients a strategic view toward dispute resolution.
Fabrice has long been involved in the evolution of legal and regulatory public policy. He worked with the French Senate on business and financial legal matters from 1999 to 2002 and at the French National Assembly. For 10 years, he acted, at the request of the Paris Bar President, as court-appointed counsel to assist defendants in criminal matters during immediate appearances, plea bargaining (CRPC), police custody, or within the framework of judicial investigations.
He draws on experience advising the Conseil National des Barreaux (CNB) on governmental issues. He is a founding member of the Legal Committee of Paris Europlace and an expert within the Club des Juristes, a French legal think tank. Fabrice has also contributed as an expert to two committees, one dedicated to anti-corruption (2022) and the other to the "Duty of Vigilance" (2023), both chaired by former Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve. He is currently a member of an internal investigation commission, chaired by former Minister of Justice Dominique Perben.
Fabrice has been teaching arbitration law and litigation at the University of Paris I (Sorbonne) since 1994. He was a lecturer at École Centrale-Supelec and Cairo University for several years.
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