Practice Area "Administrations, Local Authorities and Public Procurement"
"Lysias Partners gathers expertises in public law, public procurement, town-planning law, and criminal law. The firm advises several top public authorities as well as private actors. Raphaël Romi is an expert in economic public law and in environmental law."
The Legal 500 France - Ranking of best law firms (2011-2012) - Category Public Law
In charge of the practice area : Me Guillaume MERLAND, Partner, Ph.D., specialist in public law, associate professor at University of Montpellier
Our expertise
Because of the extreme diversity of legal problems that may arise with local authorities and businesses, all Lysias Partners lawyers and consultants are required to intervene in this area. A team that can be multi-disciplinary, is dedicated to the customer's need and the problem of the case assigned.
Those responsible for this area are Guillaume MERLAND and Sébastien MABILE. Raphael ROMI, Luc MOREAU and Elise SCHOR also intervene permanently on these issues.
Many of our consultants are also asked to work regularly on issues affecting local authorities, including Pascale IDOUX in public business law and Alice FUCHS in town planning law and public property.
The variety and high degree of competence of the Lysias Partners team qualifies to intervene on all aspects of the local government law, without exception:
- Institutional functioning of communities, assembly right;
- Public contract law and public procurement (public procurement, partnership agreement…)
- Cooperation between local authorities;
- Personnel management (public and private);
- Planning law, compulsory purchase questions;
- Management of public property;
- Management of local public services;
- Electoral law
Our services
- Securing and drafting contracts;
- Ad hoc consultations;
- Project and Procedure Monitoring (amendment of planning documents, planning projects, public procurement, complex contractual arrangements, restructuring of services, changes in the scope of cooperation between local authorities, dismissal procedures, etc.).
- Litigation support, development of defensive strategies as required for the representation of clients;
- Assistance and legal representation before courts including administrative courts, in demand as in defense.
- Training of officers and elected officials.
Our clients
Lysias Partners is counsel to several departments and regions, and many municipalities, including the largest city in the country, and public institutions for intercommunal cooperation, distributed throughout the national territory.
Lysias Partners is also involved in many semi-public companies, including the manager of the most famous French monument. Of course, within the framework of local authorities, the firm is regularly involved in litigation as in council, for businesses, associations and individuals in litigation versus a public body.