The Art of Defence
Civil and commercial Litigation – Art Market Law – Media & Press Law – White-Collar Criminal Law
Paris
7 avenue de Suffren,
75007 Paris
The Firm
van Doosselaere Avocat is a law firm specializing in resolving civil and commercial disputes, both domestic and multi-jurisdictional.
Over the years, the firm has developed recognised expertise in civil and commercial litigation, as well as in disputes relating to the art market, assisting and representing clients at every stage of proceedings, whether as claimant or defendant.
Practice Areas
The firm primarily acts in disputes falling within the following four areas of practice: art law, commercial law, press law, and white-collar criminal law.
Art, Culture, and Luxury Market Law
The Firm represents art dealers, auctioneers, gallery owners, auction houses, experts, artists, and collectors in all types of disputes they encounter in the art market, both civil and criminal.
Civil and commercial Litigation
The combination of increasingly complex contractual and commercial relationships and constant new legislative and regulatory provisions has placed significant legal pressure on commercial actors, leading to an increase of commercial disputes in recent years.
Press and Media Law
The Firm has developed a certain expertise in disputes relating to press law, which includes defamation, insult, presumption of innocence protection, denigration, right of reply insertion, online content removal, and issues of racism, anti-Semitism, and Holocaust denial.
White-Collar Criminal Law
The firm defends executives and corporate entities accused in cases of money laundering (including tax fraud), insider trading, misuse of corporate assets, bribery of French or foreign public officials, breach of trust, or fraud.
Our recent projects
Defended a Spanish subcontractor in an international commercial procedure against the Swiss project owner due to the principal French contractor's bankruptcy ;
Le Cabinet a assisté obtenu pour un collectionneur, acquéreur aux enchères d’un mobilier ancien, l’exécution judiciaire de la vente alors que la maison de vente s’était rétractée après l’adjudication.
Defended a company in a patent claim dispute (defense) coupled with a counterfeiting procedure (plaintiff) ;
Conducted an urgent summary procedure to protect a person's presumption of innocence against statements made by a public figure on social media ;