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ORPA Legal
  • Practice Areas
  • People
  • Why Us ?
  • A Few Key Numbers
  • Recognition
  • Hiring
  • Contact
  • FR | EN

Construction

The firm has developed extensive experience on technical issues working alongside reputable experts in the field. We represent clients in matters involving:

  • enforcement of builders’ warranties 
  • losses covered by the ten-year construction defect warranty, one-year completion warranty, and two-year “good working order” warranty required under French law
  • compliance with contract specifications and building permits
  • construction insurance coverage (e.g., policies covering liability for the ten-year construction defect warranty; damage-to-structure coverage; “all risk” work site coverage, property developer’s coverage
  • large-scale, public works construction projects (e.g., airports, places of worship, museums), shopping malls, and prestigious office and residential buildings

Representative Examples of Services Recently Provided

  • Representation in expert investigatory proceedings (under the French rules of civil procedure) following destruction of a supporting beam at a building renovation project in the La Defense business district of Paris
  • Representation of a construction company in connection with insurance coverage for construction defects at a residential waste incineration facility (loss in excess of €50 million)
  • Legal counselling and representation of a client in connection with a dispute over alleged negligence in the renovation of a power plant in the south of France
  • Representation in expert investigatory proceedings concerning a luxury hotel renovation project on the Côte d’Azur (€12 million at issue)
  • Representation of the operator of a waste treatment facility following a fire having occurred while the facility was under renovation
  • Representation of a client in connection with the collapse of the underground parking garage and inner courtyard of a building in the center of Paris (damage valued at over €60 million)
  • Legal counselling and representation of a client following a roof collapse at a shopping mall during a hurricane in Martinique
  • Legal counselling and representation of a client in connection with a broken girder and roof collapse at a large warehouse after a series of snow storms
  • Legal assistance in connection with marble slabs threatening to fall off the façade of a famous building in Paris
  • Legal assistance in connection with construction defects affecting the parking lot of a contemporary art museum in Paris

Practice Areas

Commercial and Banking Dispute Resolution

We represent clients in France and abroad, through all phases of the litigation process—in preliminary expert investigatory proceedings under French procedural rules, in connection with requests for summary or pre-judgment relief, and in full litigation on the merits. We also handle arbitration and mediation.

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Insurance and Reinsurance

ORPA Legal provides legal advice to its clients in all areas of insurance; it represents and advises them through the investigation and claim-handling phases and any subsequent litigation or alternative dispute resolution process.

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Financial Lines Insurance

We assist insurance companies in drafting policy language to cover financial institutions and banks and represent them through the claim handling, investigation and dispute resolution process.

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Industrial Accidents

We get involved right from the crisis management phase in order to protect our clients’ interests and assist them in connection with the necessary expert investigations and any court proceedings.

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Product Liability

We have specific experience in handling matters relating to pharmaceutical, electrical, and electronics products.

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Regulatory Work

The law firm Ormen Passemard - ORPA Legal is highly regarded for its extensive experience in handling insurance and reinsurance regulatory matters.

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Construction Litigation

We recently became involved in a great number of construction matters, representing builders, general contractors and property developers.

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Pharmaceutical and Medical Litigation

We represent a number of pharmaceutical companies in products liability matters.

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Cyber Exposures

ORPA Legal provides legal assistance in connection with cyber insurance coverage—both before and after the loss.

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Environmental Litigation

The firm represents clients in connection with environmental losses involving application of the European directive on environmental liability.

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47 rue Dumont d'Urville 75116 - Paris

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ORPA Legal
47 rue Dumont d'Urville
75116 - Paris

Near the Arc de Triomphe and the Champs Elysées

Monday to Friday from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m

Partners available 24 hours a day in the event of emergency

Téléphone : +33 1 70 37 39 00
+33 1 70 37 39 00
Subway Station :

Charles de Gaulle - Etoile (Subway Lines 1, 2, 6, RER A)
Kléber (Subway Line 6)

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