DLA Piper announces Fanny Combourieu as Country Managing Partner in France

Global law firm DLA Piper today announces Fanny Combourieu as Country Managing Partner (CMP) for France, effective 1 November 2024. Fanny succeeds Philippe Danesi following his appointment to the firm's Executive Committee as Joint Managing Director for Europe, a role shared with Daphne Bens based in Amsterdam.

A tax lawyer for over 20 years, Fanny joined DLA Piper’s Paris office in 2018 and has developed strong expertise in tax law, particularly in structuring private equity, infrastructure, and real estate transactions for clients in in the fund and asset management industry.

Since taking over as CMP in 2021, Philippe has significantly increased turn-over and profitability, reshaped operations, strengthened practices and sectors with the appointment of multiple new partners and deep collaboration with the International firm as well and promoted positive working environment and D&I to best serve our clients.

Philippe Danesi, Joint Managing Director for Europe commented: “Fanny's appointment as Country Managing Partner for our operations in France is testament to her unwavering commitment. Fanny has all the qualities required to support strong growth, both locally and via our global footprint, by focusing on large-scale, high value-added and high-profile cases that match our goal of positioning ourselves around excellence, innovation and a strong sectoral dynamic.”

Fanny Combourieu added: “Being selected to lead our offering in France is one of the greatest privileges of my professional career, and I will put all my energy and determination into continuing the development of our office in the service of our clients, in collaboration with all the partners, whom I thank for their confidence, and with our staff and support teams. I will draw on my experience at DLA Piper both as an elected member of the international and local board and as head of the tax in practice in Paris.

“Philippe took charge of the Paris office at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic and has developed our offering considerably since then. I am grateful for his support and look forward to continuing in the same vein as he did and to working with him as he becomes Joint Managing Director Europe.”

As a result of her appointment as Country Managing Partner for France, Fanny is stepping down from the board of DLA Piper to which she was elected two years ago.