Specialist fields

Marie-Yvonne Benjamin deals with contentious and non-contentious matters related to the management of large projects and complex operations requiring public and private analysis, public service management (water, transport, waste, ports) or construction, development and the environment (real estate projects, infrastructures, energy).
She is a reputed specialist in public enterprise consultancy. She also provides expertise in the field of construction law.

Professional background

Marie-Yvonne Benjamin is a founding partner of GENESIS AVOCATS in 2007, and has been a practicing lawyer for twenty years, including twelve years in a Parisian firm specialized in public and environmental law.

She also worked for the legal direction of the FNSEM (from 1992 to 1995) and was the project officer at the Morbihan General Council (from 1984 to 1992).

Marie-Yvonne BENJAMIN lectures at Paris I, Master 2, Public business law and local public enterprise law (SEML, SPL) and provides training in the public domain, CCAG works, works contract law, and completion of works contracts.

Education

D.E.A. in private law and D.E.A. in law history, Rennes I
Maîtrise (Master’s degree) in private law, Rennes I

Contact

64 rue de Miromesnil
75 008 Paris
Tel. +33 (0) 1 56 59 42 53
Fax. +33 (0) 1 56 59 42 54/69
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Isabelle Cassin provides expertise in advice and litigation in the fields of development and urban planning (urban planning authorisations, urban planning documents, development operations, development taxation, expropriation and pre-emption…), real estate and the environment, and more generally in public business law. She has developed recognized competencies in commercial urban planning.

Professional background

Isabelle Cassin has been a lawyer at the Paris Bar for over twenty years, and co-founded Genesis Avocats in 2007 after working as an associate, then as a partner, in a Parisian firm specialized in public law and environmental law.
She acts for large public and private operators in major projects (office properties, commercial complexes, tourist equipment, transport infrastructures…) involving mixed issues of urban planning, public law and environmental law, in which she has developed particular expertise.
She is a reputed expert and is passionate about law and litigation strategy. She has been lecturing at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Urban planning Masters) for twenty years and regularly teaches development and urban planning law. She has published a book on local urban planning.
Isabelle Cassin is a member of the editorial board of the Bulletin de Jurisprudence du Droit de l’Urbanisme (BJDU) and co-author of Lamy Immobilier.

Education

Institut de Droit Public des Affaires (IDPA), Faculté Jean Monnet Paris Sud
DEA in National Public Law, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne
Maitrise (Master’s degree) in National Public Law, Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne

Contact

64 rue de Miromesnil
75 008 Paris
Tel. +33 (0) 1 56 59 42 53
Fax. +33 (0) 1 56 59 42 54/69
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Delphine Liebeaux is a senior lawyer associate and director of the Public Contracts Pole in Genesis Avocats since 2007, after four years’ experience in a Parisian law firm specialized in public and environmental law, with the founding associates of Genesis Avocats.

She mainly deals with public contracts (public service delegations, public procurement, complex contracts…) in varied domains :
BTP, transport, waste, water and sanitation, medical analysis, editions… Her professional experience in advice and litigation also includes private contract issues, installations for the protection of the environment, the operation of local authorities and cross-border law.

Delphine Liebeaux is particularly interested in cases combining legal and technical aspects, involving teamwork with the operational teams of our clients.
Delphine Liebeaux studied law in France and public and environmental affairs in the United States. She also studied in the Institut Supérieur d’Interprétariat et de Traduction (Higher Institute of Interpreting and Translation).

Education

Professional lawyer’s certificate (2003)
DEA National Public Law, Paris II Panthéon-Assas
Maîtrise (Master’s degree) in Public Business Law, Paris XI Sceaux
School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University (United States)

Patrick Lucien-Baugas has been a senior associate lawyer in Genesis Avocats since 2007.

Before then, he practiced in two Parisian business law firms for seven years. He mainly deals with urban planning and development, commercial urban planning, land, agricultural and forestry development, public service, public domain and administrative liability.

He is a renowned specialist in administrative litigation. He is also bilingual (French-English) and acts in matters of international public law.

Education

Professional lawyer’s certificate (2000)
DESS National, European and International Litigation, Paris V
DEA in Public Law, Paris V
Maîtrise (Master’s degree) in Public Law, Paris V