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Bersay & Associés
Country Manager
Bersay & Associés is an independent multi-specialist law firm advising companies from start-ups to multinational
groups. Bersay & Associés has chosen to operate in a certain number of practice areas where it knows it can achieve
the highest standards of legal expertise and provide the best client service.
Bersay & Associés is particularly active in:
Corporate/M&A/Capital Markets/Banking Finance; Tax; Litigation/Arbitration; IP/IT/Telecoms/Media/Entertainment/Data Protection;
Real Estate/Construction/Environment; Competition and Antitrust; Labor and Employment; Public and Administrative Law.
Bersay & Associés are regular advisors to:
• Small and mid-sized companies in a wide variety of sectors (Cellebrite, IronSource, Radware, Bank Hapoalim, Groupe
Edmond de Rothschild, France 24, CNN, Relais & Châteaux, Cofidis, Verint, Shoei, etc.).
• Large multinational groups (Caisse des Dépôts, Sony Music, Sun Capital, Ipsos, Total, Publicis, Alstom, EDF, Turner,
Expedia, TripAdvisor, Airbnb, Lazard, Pernod Ricard Europe, Coca-Cola, SAP, R. J. Reynolds, Lactalis, Areva, Veolia
Environnement, Goodyear, Cable & Wireless, Hitachi, etc.).
In each of our main practice areas, the lawyers at Bersay &Associés appear regularly in themain French and international
rankings and legal guides (Legal 500, Chambers, Who’s Who Legal, Best Lawyers, etc.). They are acknowledged as
leading experts in their respective areas.
Bersay & Associés opened an office in Tel Aviv, enabling the firm to work fluently in three languages (French, English
and Hebrew) and two legal systems. Bersay & Associés supports French and Israeli companies for all their legal needs
in France and in French speaking countries in Africa, and offers them the benefit of its sound knowledge of the French
and Israeli business environment.
Stéphanie has been running the Tel Aviv Office of Bersay & Associés since 2009, when she made Aliyah from France. Her
expertise comprises M&A, restructuring, share capital transactions, shareholders agreements and commercial contracts.
Since she has been located in Israel, Stéphanie has been involved in the financing by an Israeli Bank of the sale of Veolia
Israel, acquisitions in France by Israeli companies in the high-tech and cosmetic fields, the setting up of French entities
on behalf of Israel companies and the daily management of their French legal needs (financial, real estate, employment,
tax, commercial, etc.), negotiation of license and commercial agreements for Israeli Companies with French large cap in
the marketing and telecom sectors.
Prior to moving to Israel, Stéphanie was involved in key matters in France such as the acquisition of the number 118
000 SAS by Telegate, the sale of the Plaza Athénée by Dorchester Group, the sales by Areva of various subsidiaries,
the restructuring of Relais & Châteaux and the negotiation of its commercial agreements. Stephanie’s practice also
focuses on the development of privileged relationships between French and Israeli companies and authorities in order
to raise commercial interests and business flow between the two countries. She is admitted to practice in Paris since
1999 and in Israel since 2011.
CONTACT
INFORMATION: office: +972 (0)7 47 268 144