Lovells enters tie-up with France's Kuntz
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Lovells has formed a co-operation agreement with Paris-based insolvency boutique Kuntz & Associés.
The tie-up will see the firms, who have a longstanding relationship, form a closer bond without entering into a full-scale alliance.
Under the arrangement Lovells will gain access to Kuntz’s specialist insolvency expertise, while Kuntz will be able to draw on Lovells’ full-service French practice.
Lovells restructuring and insolvency head Robin Spencer said: “Most of the leading insolvency lawyers in Paris organise themselves into boutique firms that dominate the insolvency market. Kuntz & Associés is amongst the very best of these firms.
“We’ve worked extensively with Jean-Emmanuel [Kuntz, the firm’s founding partner] and his team in the past on the court-facing aspects of restructuring and insolvency in France.
“We know from having worked together that Jean-Emmanuel is technically excellent, and we know from having pitched together that he shares our commitment to delivering practical, quality advice to clients and our ethos of working as a close part of the client’s team.”
Four-lawyer Kuntz was formed in 2005 by former Foucaud Tchekhoff Pochet & Associés lawyer Kuntz.
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Readers' comments (26)
Pervez | 9-Sep-2009 2:47 pm
Nice to see Lovells thrusting forward into virgin territory
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Anonymous | 9-Sep-2009 3:53 pm
Ah, a match made in heaven!
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Anonymous | 9-Sep-2009 3:54 pm
I commend the tie up and, given my rather long legal career hitherto, I vouch for their new partner for I feel like I’ve been working with Kuntz for quite some time.....
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Mark | 9-Sep-2009 3:54 pm
"Under the arrangement Lovells will gain access to Kuntz’s"
Surely it would have been cheaper to just go to Browns???
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Anonymous | 9-Sep-2009 3:59 pm
We are not talking about all French lawyers here are we?
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Anonymous | 9-Sep-2009 4:46 pm
What about the rumour that Kok (http://www.kokadvocaten.nl/) were chasing Kuntz?
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Anonymous | 9-Sep-2009 4:49 pm
I see that Kuntz started the firm up after leaving the only-slightly-less amusingly named Foucaud
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Stringer Bell | 9-Sep-2009 5:05 pm
What a fine advertisement for the English legal profession this stream of public schoolboy humour is creating. Clearly it must be a very slow Wednesday across the City?
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Anonymous | 9-Sep-2009 7:01 pm
Pete & Dud, eat your hearts out!
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Anonymous | 10-Sep-2009 9:39 am
I can see many merits in the tie-up.
Although the current climate is one in which many Firms are seeking to be defensive in order to avoid making the sort of "financial clanger" which is becoming all too common, one cannot help but applaud Lovells' bold move.
I think the timing (after the Bush era) is perfect for becoming more acquainted with Kuntz.
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