Estelle Floyd

The firm

Three lawyers, three personalities, from three different generations but with the same passion for their profession, sharing the same values and with one objective to provide their clients with high quality service.

The Floyd & Associés firm is an independent firm of French lawyers dedicated to business litigation. Its creation stems from a desire to offer its clients expertise and excellence tailored to their needs, their corporate strategy and to the particular requirements of their business.

The lawyers with Floyd & Associés, all trained by one of the leading French commercial law firms, assist their clients with litigation strategy: from the avoidance of disputes to their resolution, including obtaining interim measures and enforcing court orders.

The Floyd & Associés firm has access to a network of experts and specialised correspondents enabling them to resolve any attendant financial and technical difficulties. They are also regularly assisted by a Professor of Law.

Practice areas

• Arbitration and alternative dispute resolution
• Commercial litigation
• Distribution and contract
• Litigation in connection with industrial risks
• Corporate and stock exchange litigation
• Firms in difficulties
• Enforcement proceedings and investigative measures

In order to resolve its clients’ cross frontier and international issues, the Firm of Floyd & Associés have contacts with independent overseas firms sharing the same profile as regards quality of service and proximity. The Firm has either met these best friends firms when working together on cases or have selected them as being the best in their field of specialisation and for their geographical location.

The Floyd & Associés firm is part of an international dynamic process on account of its cross cultural background, its experience and/or the professional experience of its lawyers. Its ambition is to assist and to advise its French clients who have forward looking projects of an international nature and its overseas clients doing business in France.

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Background and Experience

Estelle Floyd has for almost 20 years represented the interests of the firm’s clients in strategic commercial litigation. Her expertise covers crisis management, out of court settlements and litigation before the civil and commercial courts and arbitration.

She deals regularly with high profile cases involving major issues and complex legal problems. She has a French and international clientèle from various sectors as varied as motor vehicles, the hotel business, renewable energy, health and biotechnology, the construction business and luxury products together with key economic players (such as associations) in the social and solidarity economy.

In conjunction with her litigation work, Estelle has acquired additional expertise regarding the implantation, structure and reorganisation of new or existing networks (exclusive and selective distribution, franchises, mandates and other agency agreements ) advising the firm’s clients on the drafting of the relevant contracts and dealing with any litigation arising from these networks.

Estelle has in addition acquired considerable experience in insolvency proceedings and advises the firm’s clients on composition agreements and any court litigation arising therefrom.

From a French and British background, Estelle hold a Higher Specialist Diploma in International Trade Law from the University of Paris X - Nanterre and a double Master / LL.B in French and English law from the Universities of Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne and King’s College, London. She spent 18 years developing her expertise with the French leading firm Jeantet working closely with all its departments before founding the firm Floyd & Associés.

Education

University Diploma in Mediation (First Part) - IFOMENE (2017)

Professional Lawyer’s Certificate (2000)

Higher Specialist Diploma in International Trade Law - University of Paris X - Nanterre (1998)

Double Master / LL.B in French and English law - University of Paris 1 - Panthéon-Sorbonne and King’s College London (1997)

Associative involvement

Estelle is a member of various associations directly relevant to her activities in France and abroad:

• Law and Commerce Association (Droit et Commerce)
• Association of the practitioners of Economic and Financial Litigation (APCEF)
• Women in Restructuring (WIR)
• International Bar Association (IBA)
• Association of the Jurists of the Panthéon King’s College Universities (AJPK)

Languages

French, English, German

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