About us

FDA AVOCATS is a firm of qualified lawyers specializing in business law, focusing primarily on corporate clients. With a strong ability to listen, the firm provides its clients with a « tailor-made » service in terms of advice, negotiation, legal strategy or legal action.
Founded in 1978, the firm has grown ever since, constantly striving to better understand its clients and meet their needs. FDA AVOCATS is a firm with a human dimension, providing its clients with a personalized service to achieve their objectives. We also rely on a network of selected partners in tax, finance and engineering to strengthen our capabilities.

Les Domaines d’Activités

Généraliste du Droit des Affaires le Cabinet accompagne ses clients dans la plupart des matières intéressant les entreprises. Que ce soit en mettant à profit ses compétences internes ou en mobilisant des consultants ou partenaires extérieurs, FENEON DELABRIERE AVOCAT intervient de la façon la plus adaptée pour atteindre les objectifs fixés en commun.

Le Cabinet conseille et représente plusieurs états, collectivités publiques et organisations internationales.

Dans le secteur privé, les principaux clients exercent dans les domaines d’activités suivants :

  • Commerce international, distribution et services
  • Construction, génie civil, industrie
  • Télécommunications, énergie, environnement
  • Banque et services financiers
  • Pétrole, mines, ressources naturelles
  • Aéronautique et transports

Les avocats

FENEON DELABRIERE AVOCAT regroupe et fédère des Avocats recrutés et sélectionnés pour leurs compétences et leur capacité d’action au service des clients. Le Cabinet est organisé autour de trois types de ressources.

Une équipe opérationnelle.
Réunis autour d’Antoine DELABRIERE, Maria VASSILEVA et Alexandre PILLIET sont présents en permanence et interviennent chacun dans leurs domaines d’activités.

Antoine Delabrière
Partner
Alexandre Pilliet
Partner
Maria Vassileva
Lawyer
  • Une équipe de missions.
    Membres à part entière du Cabinet mais n’y disposant pas d’un bureau permanent, Rose-Line AVERBOUCH et François BOKO, interviennent, dans des secteurs spécialisés, soit au titre de missions à l’étranger, y compris sur de longues périodes, soit dans le cadre de dossiers complexes ou spécifiques traités en équipe.
  • Un réseau de Partenaires et correspondants.
    Que ce soit en France ou à l’étranger, notamment en Afrique, le Cabinet dispose d’un réseau de partenaires et de correspondants à même d’apporter, soit une expertise complémentaire (fiscalité, expertise comptable, droit patrimonial des personnes…), soit un soutien dans le cadre de procédures ou d’interventions locales. Les relations avec les correspondants africains s’établissent au travers du réseau JURIS & LEXIS AFRICA®.

Antoine Delabrière

Partner

Antoine DELABRIERE was sworn in as a lawyer in October 1995 after an academic training in Business Law (Masters in Business – Tax Law at the University of Paris II Assas and Post-graduate specialty program in « Law and practice at the Bar » at Paris II Assas).

After a work experience in a Law Firm at the French Council of State and the French Supreme Court of Appeals (GAUZES & GHESTIN), he joined FENEON and became an associate partner in 2006. In 2013, Antoine DELABRIERE took over the management of FENEON DELABRIERE AVOCAT.

Working in numerous fields of Business Law, Antoine DELABRIERE especially qualifies in private international law, through his participation to multiple missions and projects of OHADA Law and Construction Law (Specialty Certificate – Paris Bar School 2004).

Within the Law Firm, Antoine DELABRIERE coordinates the work of all the attorneys and works with one, several or all of his associates on large-scale cases.

Since 2008, Antoine DELABRIERE has worked as a Master’s Degree Law Professor at the University of Reims, where he teaches negotiation of international contracts, drafting of legal instruments and contracts or assessment of public policies in Africa.

He also acts as a Consultant on International Law missions or as a Trainer. Antoine DELABRIERE published, on his own or as a co-author, several legal articles, particularly in the Recueil PENANT, of which he was the Secretary-General from 2001 to 2013.

Antoine DELABRIERE speaks and works in French, English and Spanish.

Alexandre Pilliet

Partner

Alexandre PILLIET is an attorney working in the Law Firm FENEON DELABRIERE AVOCAT since January 2012. He is mainly qualified in labour law, company law, commercial law, criminal business law and specializes in intellectual property law and information technology law.

He acts in counselling as well as litigation.

He has a Master of Business Law (University of Paris II) and graduated with honours during his Master’s Degree in Intellectual property law (University of Montpellier). He spent some time in Canada as part of his studies.

First working as a university professor during his PhD dissertation research, he then worked as a corporate counsel and completed internships in the legal department of Lagardère SCA and in the Paris office of Jones Day International Law Firm.

Alexandre PILLIET speaks and works in French and English.

Maria Vassileva

Lawyer

Maria VASSILEVA is an attorney at the Paris Bar and joined the Law Firm FENEON DELABRIERE AVOCAT in 2010.

She mainly works in African Business Law, particularly OHADA Law, private international law, debt collection, arbitration, company law and commercial law.

She acts in counselling as well as litigation.

She has two Masters in Private International Law and European Law (University of Paris II – Assas) and a Master’s Degree in International and European Economic Law (University of Paris XIII).

Maria VASSILEVA speaks and works in French, English, Bulgarian and Russian.