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Fashion & Luxury

Fashion and luxury are particularly competitive sectors in which ATurquoise developed a sharp expertise that allows its team of lawyers helping clients at all creation stages as well as in the defense of intangible assets that are subject to greed. ATurquoise assists numerous prestigious trademarks and fashion muses by providing advice from sketches to conception and from fashion shows to marketing.

Audiovisual, Cinema, TV

This sector is currently subject to an important technologic revolution leading to a redefinition of financing as well as national and European regulations. As an expert in this area, ATurquoise provides its services to authors, producers, editors, diffusers, distributors and investors at both national and international levels.

Music

The complexity of contracts and relations between different stakeholders from the music industry makes necessary the recourse to experts for contracts negotiation, collection of revenues, images as well as names and intellectual property assets enhancement, litigation notably related to counterfeit. ATurquoise advises numerous actors from the music industry such as singers, authors, composers and performers.

Live Shows

ATurquoise assists its clients, notably museums, galleries, collectors for all questions related to commissioned works of art, authors rights assignments related to works of art, sales and exhibitions of works of art, galleries owners’ contracts, insurance, management, professionals’ responsibility, prosecution of infringers as well as all questions related to stolen works of art.

Cultural Heritage

ATurquoise assists its clients, notably museums, galleries, collectors for all questions related to commissioned works of art, authors rights assignments related to works of art, sales and exhibitions of works of art, galleries owners’ contracts, insurance, management, professionals’ responsibility, prosecution of infringers as well as all questions related to stolen works of art.

Press

The press is omnipresent in our daily life and originates not only from journalists and media companies, but also individuals.
Thanks to its extensive skills in press law, ATurquoise assists its clients by providing advice as well as taking care of any litigation matter related to insult and defamation on any media. ATurquoise team also accompanies its clients on matters related to freedom of expression, right of reply and rectification, criminal and civil proceedings related to the right to information.

Communication, Media & Reputation

The multiplication of media supports constitutes an important vector for image and reputation building.
With its wealth of experience with regard to e-reputation and crisis communication strategy, ATurquoise assists a wild variety of clients: renowned personalities, private persons, associations, trade unions, international NGOs, multinational companies.

European Challenges

Nowadays, many politic programs and national parliaments are blocked or slowed down by challenging imperatives. Brussels and Europe appear to be a true democratic alternative and a strategic point of support. The evolution of legal frameworks in European relations and, soon, transatlantic relations (notably with the project of TTIP Treaty), have made of Brussels a true strategic hub where European communication campaigns can be built.
In this respect, we have developed abilities of assisting lobbying strategies in Brussels and in other European capitals. We closely follow decision-making in this hub deserving European economic and political interests.

Telecoms

Telecom is a legal and technologic fast-changing sector. For many years, ATurquoise team has been assisting various important actors from this sectors (operators, intermediary services providers, international organizations) and gives them operational and strategic advice concerning regulation, contractual and litigation issues.

Internet

Internet particularities made this sector a convergence point for numerous actors whose interests can differ: domain names, e-commerce, freedom of speech, net neutrality, right of oblivion, intellectual property protection and enhancement, personal data.
ATurquoise assists its clients at every stage of the development of their activities by providing them strategic advice as well as by taking part of contractual negotiations, and helping with pre-litigation and litigation issues.

Personal Datas

As technologies gradually progress, questions related to the protection and processing of personal data are gaining more and more importance. In this respect, the law firm ATurquoise provides advanced advice on all questions related to the collection, processing and transfer (inside and outside the EU) of personal data within the respect of international conventions or through the implementation of standard terms agreed by the European Commission or of Binding Corporate Rules.

Games & Bets

This industry has experienced big changes notably with regards to sport bets, horse-race betting and poker. ATurquoise closely follows legal, regulatory and judicial evolutions in this area and advises its clients on the risks and opportunities of games, bets, and competitions.

Communities

ATurquoise assists community groups composed of individuals that share the same projects, origins, values, territories, shall it be public or private entities. As such, ATurquoise provides advice adapted to their clients’ needs in terms of representation, communication and notably through social networks and the allocation of their resources.

Advertisement & marketing

ATurquoise advises its clients in the definition and the conduct of their advertisement, marketing and communication operations. Its sectorial expertise serves a wild variety of clients, from communication campaigns for non-profit organizations, production of advertising contents, advertising management, implementation of partnerships, sponsoring of renown personalities, defense of personality rights in promotional campaigns for commercial purposes or non-commercial purposes.

Sport

Various legal issues arise from this particular area. ATurquoise team helps its clients from the sport sector on numerous issues such as the protection of the right to an image, reputation, sport team building, doping, funding, audiovisual broadcasting rights, sport sponsorship, litigation.

Sponsorship

ATurquoise advises and assists numerous associations and non-profit organizations thanks to its technical and cross knowledge in intellectual property law and philanthropy. ATurquoise actively participates in the elaboration of creative legal schemes in order to conciliate the respect of general interest objectives related to the specificity of those organisms, with major projects usually related to the lucrative universe.

New technologies

This sector continuously faces new challenges, that is why a creative and advanced legal approach is needed. ATurquoise assists a large clientele which has many projects involving new technologies. ATurquoise therefore brings an advanced legal assistance on matters notably related to data bases, personal data, development of new activities on the internet, software, computing security.

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