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Rémi Kleiman

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Senior Office Partner

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Languages: French, English

Rémi Kleiman is the Senior Office Partner of Eversheds Sutherland in France, when he heads the Litigation & Dispute Management practice group.

Based in our Paris office, Remi specialises in domestic and cross-border commercial litigation and has extensive experience in assisting clients in complex contract litigation as well as in product liability actions.

Remi has gained numerous technical expertise over the last 25 years and has substantial experience in acting for French and international companies in various sectors. He handles commercial disputes and liability and enforcement cases on behalf of financial institutions, energy and technology companies, airlines and large industrial groups.

He regularly contributes to legal reviews with articles both on litigation and arbitration. A member of the Paris Bar since 1995, he speaks French and English fluently and also lectures on contract law at the Institute of Business Law at the University of Paris II Panthéon Assas.

Remi's experience includes advising :

  • a pump manufacturer in a multi millions € product liability claim brought by a French industrial company and in a tort claim in relation to a defective windmill
  • an electrical parts manufacturer in European product recall procedures
  • an American corporation specializing in motion and control technologies (claimant) in an ICC arbitration relating to an environment law indemnity. The multi millions euros claim was successful and we assisted the client in the whole arbitration process and handled the advocacy
  • a major French bank on a post-Brexit issue regarding an election of domicile clause
  • a solar panel manufacturer in several procedures and expertise related to allegedly defective products
  • an oil company in a €100 m claim in relation to damages caused to undersea cables
  • representing a British multinational aerospace and defence company  in a dispute regarding the insolvency of a an airline company
  • advising an international airline company regarding their passenger claims in France

Ranked in Chambers & Partners Europe 2022 (Litigation)

Ranked in Legal 500 EMEA 2022 (Commercial litigation)

Member of the Paris Bar since 1995.

Rémi holds a postgraduate degree in private law.

Rémi Kleiman

Partner

Senior Office Partner

Rémi Kleiman

Partner

Senior Office Partner

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