{"id":316,"date":"2013-11-04T11:44:45","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T10:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lexline.fr\/?page_id=316"},"modified":"2020-05-21T10:00:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-21T09:00:12","slug":"bertrand-courtois","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lexline.fr\/en\/the-partners\/bertrand-courtois\/","title":{"rendered":"Bertrand COURTOIS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After graduating from the University of Paris V-Ren\u00e9 Descartes law school, and obtaining his qualification and registration at the Paris Bar, <span class=\"donthyphenate\">Bertrand<\/span> <span class=\"donthyphenate\">COURTOIS<\/span> decided to build upon his first law firm experiences in London and Paris (Clifford Chance, Clyde &amp; Co, Lassez &amp; Associ\u00e9s) and became very committed to the fields of <strong>maritime\/shipping<\/strong> and <strong>transportation<\/strong> law, as well as to insurance and private international law.<\/p>\n<p>His professional practice as a lawyer, initially shaped in London, led him to appear as an <strong>expert witness<\/strong> before the High Court of Justice in London on several occasions, and to develop and serve a significant international clientele (especially English, American and Japanese), including insurance companies, P&amp;I Clubs, ship owners and many law firms.<\/p>\n<p>After ten years with UK Firm Clyde &amp; Co (1992-2002) including five as a partner, <span class=\"donthyphenate\">Bertrand<\/span> <span class=\"donthyphenate\">COURTOIS<\/span> founded Paris Firm <span class=\"donthyphenate\">Courtois<\/span> &amp; <span class=\"donthyphenate\">Finkelstein<\/span>, where he practiced maritime and transports law, for 17 years (2002-2019) until the merger of the Firm with HMN &amp; Partners.<\/p>\n<p>Determined to pursue his practice independently, <span class=\"donthyphenate\">Bertrand<\/span> <span class=\"donthyphenate\">COURTOIS<\/span> founded LEXLINE with Victoire REVENAZ.<\/p>\n<p>A member of the French Maritime Law Association (<strong>AFDM<\/strong>) and the International Bar Association (<strong>IBA<\/strong>), <span class=\"donthyphenate\">Bertrand<\/span> <span class=\"donthyphenate\">COURTOIS<\/span> provides legal services to significant players in the French and International Insurance Market and to operators of all profiles, sizes and requirements working in the transportation and shipping arena.<\/p>\n<p>As a member of the Paris Bar, <span class=\"donthyphenate\">Bertrand<\/span> <span class=\"donthyphenate\">COURTOIS<\/span> appears before all <strong>French courts<\/strong> and also handles <strong>arbitration<\/strong> proceedings, particularly before the Maritime Arbitration Chamber of Paris (CAMP), the International Arbitration Chamber of Paris (CAIP) and the ICC International Court of Arbitration.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"donthyphenate\">Bertrand<\/span> <span class=\"donthyphenate\">COURTOIS<\/span> recently distinguished himself in major maritime disasters (\u00ab&nbsp;<strong>COSTA CONCORDIA<\/strong>&nbsp;\u00bb, \u00ab NORMAN ATLANTIC&nbsp;\u00bb) and air crashes (Air Alg\u00e9rie <strong>AH5017<\/strong> and Egyptair <strong>MS804<\/strong>) involving civil issues as well as criminal.<\/p>\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After graduating from the University of Paris V-Ren\u00e9 Descartes law school, and obtaining his qualification and registration at the Paris Bar, Bertrand COURTOIS decided to build upon his first law firm experiences in London and Paris (Clifford Chance, Clyde &amp; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexline.fr\/en\/the-partners\/bertrand-courtois\/\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":461,"parent":314,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"template-associes.php","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lexline.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lexline.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lexline.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexline.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexline.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=316"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexline.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":695,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexline.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/316\/revisions\/695"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexline.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/314"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lexline.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lexline.fr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}