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Legal 500 EMEA 2026 Rankings

Communiqué Intellectual Property, Media, and Art Law Public Law and Public Procurement Law IT and Data Protection Compliance Employment and Social Security Law Patent Law | 25/03/26 | 4 min. |

August Debouzy has once again been recognized in Legal 500 EMEA 2026, demonstrating the strength of our expertise and the acknowledged excellence of our teams across all practice areas.


Top-tier recognition across 8 practice areas (Tier 1)

Our firm has been ranked Tier 1 in the following areas:

  • Administrative and public law
  • Compliance
  • Data privacy and data protection
  • Employment
  • Industry focus: IT and internet
  • Intellectual property: Patents
  • Media and entertainment: Newspapers
  • Media and entertainment: Sports


These top-tier rankings underscore the firm’s ability to advise clients on complex regulatory, technological, and litigation matters.


Expanded recognition across multiple practice areas

August Debouzy has also been recognized in more than 20 additional practice areas, with several notable advancements, including:

  • Administrative and public law (Tier 1)
  • Insolvency (Tier 2)
  • Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs (Tier 2)



Numerous individual recognitions

This 2026 edition also recognizes the achievements of many of our lawyers:

Hall of Fame:

  • Bernard Cazeneuve (Compliance)
  • Astrid Mignon Colombet (Compliance )
  • Florence Chafiol (Data privacy and data protection; IT and internet)
  • Emmanuelle Barbara (Employment)
  • Mahasti Razavi (IT and internet )
  • Grégoire Desrousseaux (Intellectual property: Patents)
  • François Pochart (Intellectual property: Patents)


Leading Partners:

  • Basile Ader (Media and entertainment: Newspapers; Intellectual property: Copyright; Media and entertainment: Art)
  • Olivier Attias (Compliance)
  • Guillaume Aubatier (Real estate)
  • Marie-Hélène Bensadoun (Employment)
  • Alexandra Berg-Moussa (IT and internet)
  • Vincent Brenot (Administrative and public law)
  • Florence Chafiol (IT and internet)
  •  Astrid Mignon Colombet (White-collar crime)
  • Laurent Cotret (Insolvency)
  • Emmanuelle Mignon (Administrative and public law)
  • François Pochart (Healthcare and life sciences)
  • Antonia Raccat (Real estate; Real estate finance)
  • Mahasti Razavi (Intellectual property: Copyright)
  • Mathilde Saltiel (EU, competition and distribution)


Next Generation Partners:

  • Hélène Billery (Administrative and public law)
  • Julia Cohen-Solal (Intellectual property: Patents)
  • Anaïs Coviaux (Compliance)
  • Eden Gall (IT and internet)
  • Amélie Tripet (Media and entertainment: Newspapers; Media and entertainment: Art) 


Leading Associates:

  •  Thibaut Amourette (Luxury goods)
  •  Roxane Blanc-Dubois (Data privacy and data protection)
  •  Malvina Dahan (Real estate)
  •  Marie Edelstenne (Media and entertainment: Newspapers)
  •  Robin Nini (Data privacy and data protection)
  •  Pierre Pérot (Intellectual property: Copyright; Trade marks and designs)
  • Amélie Tripet (Intellectual property: Copyright)
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