Marine Lallemand

Partner
Marine Lallemand is well equipped to handle contractual and shareholders' disputes on behalf of French and international clients.
— Chambers France 2025
Paris
About

Marine Lallemand has over 20 years' experience assisting clients handling complex crises and sensitive disputes, whether corporate, commercial or financial.

With a substantial track record advising private equity funds, financial institutions and multinational corporate, Marine has developed a particular know-how on complex commercial and financial disputes, contentious corporate matters such as shareholders’ and post-acquisition litigation, insolvency and distressed M&A disputes.

Ranked by Chambers, clients describe her as "the mastermind behind her team's performance, taking “her clients' interests to heart" and praise her for clear and focus recommendations.

She also assists clients in complex international commercial disputes involving multiple jurisdictions and additionally advises on financial services litigation and white-collar crime issues.

Marine provides strategic advice, in pre-litigation or litigation phases, and represents clients before French courts and regulators. She also offers notable expertise in domestic and international arbitration and alternative means to solve conflicts outside of the courtroom (ADR).

Corporate and Commercial Litigation & Dispute Resolution | International Arbitration | Insolvency and distressed M&A Litigation | Financial Services Litigation | Securities Litigation | M&A and Private Equity | Technology and infrastructure | Industrials.

Areas of FocusLitigation, Arbitration and InvestigationsMergers and AcquisitionsPrivate EquityRegulatory and Government AffairsBusiness and Commercial LitigationCorporate and Securities DisputesLife SciencesMedia, Sport and Entertainment
Professional QualificationsAvocate admitted to the Paris Bar

EXPERIENCE

  • Representing one of the leading manufacturer in pre-litigation with one of its clients in the context of re-negotiation of financial terms of a longstanding relationship and defending accusation of sudden and brutal termination.
  • Representing a Dutch company and subsidiary of one of the leading international petrochemical groups, further to the brutal termination, without prior notice, by the Italian company of their longstanding commercial relationship in March 2024.
  • Advising Private Equity firms in their disputes with former executives and shareholders.
  • Advising executives and minority shareholders against majority shareholders and investment funds in connection with the sale or acquisition of the company or governance matters.
  • Advising a telecom operator in various complex commercial disputes against the leading telecom operation.*
  • Advising a listed company in multiple proceedings brought by more than 150 former minority shareholders before French courts in compensation for the damage caused by the dismissal of false information on the market (and monitoring of the proceedings before the regulator (AMF) and the criminal courts).*
  • Advising Private Equity firms in their disputes with former executives and shareholders.
  • Advising executives and minority shareholders against majority shareholders and investment funds in connection with the sale or acquisition of the company or governance matters.
  • Advising a telecom operator in various complex commercial disputes against the leading telecom operation.*
  • Advising major African financial institutions against an Austrian bank in the Madoff case.
  • Advising investment funds and private equity firms in insolvency related disputes (claim against safeguard plans, liability claims for shortfall of assets, etc.).*
  • Advising court-appointed administrators and liquidators of listed and unlisted companies in various commercial disputes or corporate related matters (shareholders disputes, governance issues, etc.) in the context of insolvency proceedings.*
  • Advising a creditor and a court-appointed liquidator in an insolvency procedure against several former executives.
  • Advising shareholders and creditors of a listed company placed under protection in connection with the challenge of the latter's safeguard plan by other creditors.*
  • Advising a receiver of a listed company in receivership in connection with the numerous disputes initiated by executives, shareholders and activists relating to the restructuring of the company and the adoption of its recovery plan.*

*Denotes experience from a previous firm.

Languages
  • French
  • English

Awards

Team recognitions

  • Legal 500 EMEA - Dispute Resolution: commercial litigation - Tier 3 – 2025
  • Legal 500 EMEA - Dispute Resolution: commercial litigation - Tier 4 – 2024
  • Chambers Europe – Litigation – Band 5 – 2023-24-25
  • Chambers France – Litigation: Elite – Band 5 – 2025

Individual recognitions

  • Chambers Global - Litigation: Elite - Band 4 -2025 (6 years ranked)
  • Legal 500 – Corporate And Commercial Litigation – Leading Individual – 2023
  • Best Lawyers - Litigation - 2021-26
  • Chambers Europe - Litigation: Elite - Band 4 - 2024 
Education
  • HEC/ESCP Europe Business School, International law and management, Master’s Degree, 2001
  • University Paris V - René Descartes, Private Law, Post Graduate Degree, 2000
  • University Paris 2 - Pantheon-Assas, Private Law, Master’s Degree, 1999

Publications

Seminars

  • Seminar: “Plus de parité pour mieux innover” – March 2020
  • Fair: International Private Equity (IPEM), Cannes, France, January 2019, 2020
  • Conference: M&A Conference DLA Piper: October 2019

Prior Experience

  • Prior to DLA Piper, Marine Lallemand has worked in several international law firms.

Memberships And Affiliations

  • Avocat registered with the Ordre des Avocats à la cour de Paris

My latest insights

Events

IPEM Paris 2025

24 September 2025 .1 minute read

Events

10th IPEM edition (23, 24, 25 January 2024)

23 January 2024 .1 minute read

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18 December 2020

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Phone

+33 (0) 1 70 75 76 88
(Work, Paris)