Marie Davy

On the litigation side, Marie assists clients in commercial contract and distribution (e.g., termination, breach of contract), liability, corporate and post-acquisition, and industrial manufacturer product liability disputes.

Marie’s experience also includes drafting and negotiating complex commercial contracts for construction, supply, and exploitation of industrial equipment—and plants in particular—in the renewable energy sector. She also counsels clients on distribution law and international transport law and helps French and non-French manufacturers to set up distribution networks in France and globally, and negotiates annual agreements with major retail players.

Marie also has assisted clients with consumer law matters, particularly with Directorate General for Competition Policy, Consumer Affairs and Fraud Control (DGCCRF) investigations.

• A PE investment fund in a €20 million commercial dispute involving one of its portfolio companies against its client
• A major chemical industrial group in a €27 million dispute against its energy supplier
• A French bank in various proceedings to recover high-value debts
• A major industrial company in a €11 million dispute further to breach of negotiation
• Various clients in post-acquisition matters
• A French automotive company in a dispute with its partner in a joint venture
• A French industrial company in a dispute with its foreign supplier of defective components (recall processes) – €13 million
• A foreign multinational company in a dispute involving the supply of alleged defective pipelines
• A US law firm in the framing of an international letter of request issued pursuant to the Hague Convention on Taking of Evidence Abroad in Civil and Commercial Matters (Flint Water Case)
• An industrial company in arbitration proceedings involving a claim for the supply of defective industrial equipment
• French companies in investigations carried out by the DGCCRF
• A major industrial company in the drafting and negotiation of contracts for the construction and exploitation of biomass plants
• A Belgian company to expand its distribution network in the United States and Asia
• Industrial companies acting globally in the securization of their international transport contracts
• Numerous non-French companies in reviewing general terms and conditions and distribution agreements
• A major industrial group in reviewing all purchasing agreements