Legal notice

This English version is provided for information only. In case of any discrepancy, the French version is authoritative.

The information below is required by Article 1-1 of loi n° 2004-575 du 21 juin 2004 pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique (LCEN, the French Act of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy) and by the rules of the legal profession.

Website publisher

The website affinalegal.com is published by Affina Legal.

• Legal form: Association d’avocats à responsabilité professionnelle individuelle (AARPI), a French association of lawyers with individual professional liability
• Head office: 121 bis, rue de la Pompe, 75116 Paris, France
• Telephone: +33 1 58 36 08 40
• Fax: +33 1 84 16 39 87
• Email: contact@affinalegal.com
• SIRET (French establishment identification number): 488 900 093 00029
• EU VAT number: FR54488900093

Regulated profession

• Professional title: avocat, granted in France. The firm’s lawyers practise under the title “Avocat au barreau de Paris”.
• Bar: Ordre des avocats au barreau de Paris (the Paris Bar). Toque (Paris Bar box number): R174. Firm’s registration with the Bar: 18 October 2005.
• Partners: Xavier Périnne (partner of the AARPI through Xavier Périnne SELARL, his professional practice company), Vincent Bourgoin and Thierry Kouandjeu (partner of the AARPI through SELARL Thierry Kouandjeu, his professional practice company).
• Professional rules: loi n° 71-1130 du 31 décembre 1971 portant réforme de certaines professions judiciaires et juridiques (Act No 71-1130 of 31 December 1971 reforming certain judicial and legal professions); décret n° 91-1197 du 27 novembre 1991 organisant la profession d’avocat (Decree No 91-1197 of 27 November 1991 on the organisation of the legal profession); décret n° 2023-552 du 30 juin 2023 portant code de déontologie des avocats (Decree No 2023-552 of 30 June 2023 establishing the code of professional conduct for lawyers); Règlement intérieur national de la profession d’avocat (RIN, the national rules of the legal profession); Règlement intérieur du barreau de Paris (the internal rules of the Paris Bar). These texts are published, in French, on legifrance.gouv.fr, cnb.avocat.fr and avocatparis.org.

Publication director

Maître Xavier Périnne, as manager (gérant), who can be contacted using the firm’s details above.

Hosting

OVH SAS, 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, France. Telephone: 1007. Website: ovhcloud.com.

Luxembourg office

In Luxembourg, the firm practises through Affina Legal S.à r.l., a private limited liability company (société à responsabilité limitée) governed by Luxembourg law.

• Registered office: 30, rue Marie-Adélaïde, L-2128 Luxembourg
• Telephone: +352 20 20 42 23
• Luxembourg Trade and Companies Register (RCS): B175514
• Share capital: €12,500
• VAT number: LU26107437
• Manager (gérant): Xavier Périnne
• Bar registration: List VI of the roll of the Luxembourg Bar (Ordre des avocats du barreau de Luxembourg), for legal entities practising law, since 20 February 2013
• Xavier Périnne: Luxembourg Bar, List IV (practising under his home-country professional title, “Avocat (France)”), since 13 February 2014
• Professional rules: loi modifiée du 10 août 1991 sur la profession d’avocat (the Luxembourg Act of 10 August 1991 on the legal profession, as amended); règlement intérieur de l’Ordre des avocats du barreau de Luxembourg (the internal rules of the Luxembourg Bar), published on barreau.lu.

Affina Legal S.à r.l. shares its offices with the practice of Maître Jean-François Steichen, Avocat à la Cour.

Professional indemnity insurance

to be confirmed by the firm

Consumer mediation

Where the client is a consumer, they may, in the event of a dispute, refer the matter free of charge to a consumer mediator (Articles L. 612-1 et seq. of the Code de la consommation, the French Consumer Code). They must first have sent a written complaint to the firm.

For the services of the Paris office: Médiateur de la consommation de la profession d’avocat (the consumer mediator for the legal profession), Conseil national des barreaux, 180 boulevard Haussmann, 75008 Paris, mediateur-conso@mediateur-consommation-avocat.fr, mediateur-consommation-avocat.fr.

This option is without prejudice to the procedure for disputing fees before the Bâtonnier (president) of the relevant Bar.

Intellectual property

The name Affina Legal is protected: AFFINA LEGAL, a trade mark registered on 18 March 2022 (registration valid until 2032).

The texts, logo, graphic elements and photographs on this website are protected by copyright. Reproducing them, even in part, requires the firm’s written consent, except for short quotations that cite the source. The publications listed in the Insights section remain the property of their publishers.

Credits

Photographs: portraits of the partners and views of the offices, rights reserved (droits réservés).

City photographs, under Creative Commons licences:

• Paris, domed Haussmann building: Dale Cruse, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped).
• Paris 16th, dressed-stone façade: besopha, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
• Luxembourg, the Grund and Neumünster Abbey: Benh Lieu Song, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (resized).
• Luxembourg, the Grund on the Alzette: Diego Delso, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (cropped).

Photographs of the practice areas (home page), under Creative Commons licences or in the public domain:

• Paris, La Défense at night: Pablo, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (black and white, cropped).
• Luxembourg, the towers of the Court of Justice of the European Union: Alf van Beem, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (black and white, cropped).
• Paris, the Palais Brongniart: GFreihalter, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (black and white, cropped).
• Paris, from the Louvre to La Défense: Alexander Baxevanis, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (black and white, cropped).
• Paris, La Défense from the Eiffel Tower: Gugalcrom123, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (black and white, cropped).
• Luxembourg, Kirchberg from the Montée de Pfaffenthal: Cayambe, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (black and white, cropped).
• Luxembourg, the main courtroom of the Court of Justice of the European Union: public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (black and white, cropped).
• Paris, the Hôtel de Choiseul-Praslin: Guilhem Vellut, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (black and white, cropped).
• Luxembourg, the Adolphe Bridge: amanderson2, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (black and white, cropped).
• Paris, La Défense, the First and Saint-Gobain towers: Arthur Weidmann, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (black and white, cropped).
• Luxembourg, the Philharmonie, Kirchberg: Geugeor, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (black and white, cropped).
• Paris, the Palais de Justice, quai des Orfèvres: GFreihalter, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (black and white, cropped).

Adaptations (cropping, conversion to black and white) are shared under the licence of the original.

Nature of the content

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