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1. KELLER AND HECKMAN LLP
PARIS

2. We don't
just solve problems
We keep
business going
Clients and services
Keller and Heckman helps the world’s most vital businesses achieve
their objectives.
We represent the food, drug, nutritional, cosmetics and medical
device companies that enhance health and well-being.
These businesses are as complex as they are essential, and are
defined in almost every phase of operations by regulations that
often are rooted in science.
Keller and Heckman serves its clients by combining science and
technical expertise with specialized legal talent. Scientists from the
fields of chemistry, toxicology, chemical engineering, and industrial
hygiene are on staff to assist attorneys.
This collaboration of law and science yields a thorough
understanding of the issues clients face and the solutions that
legal reasoning alone cannot offer.
With over five decades of providing focused legal counselling and
litigation services Keller and Heckman makes it possible for its
clients to move their businesses forward.

3. GIVING BUSINESS MORE POWER TO SHAPE THE FUTURE
The innovations our clients develop can change your way of
life … or save a life. But first, they must meet rigorous standards
and make their way through multiple approval processes.
Keller and Heckman helps clients achieve their business goals by
bringing new products and services from concept to reality.
We guide businesses through technical approval, authorization,
and licensing processes.
Combining targeted legal counsel with hard scientific knowledge,
we develop product approval programs and recommend testing
that strengthen a product’s position. We also help clients minimize
their product liability exposure through appropriate labeling,
warranties, warnings, and safety assurances, and help them make
their strongest advertising claims within evolving guidelines.
In addition we serve our clients’ interests through arbitration,
mediation, and early case evaluations where litigation is a
ppropriate or unavoidable.
Whether responding to specific questions, providing strategic
advice, or assisting in business planning, Keller and Heckman
understands from the inside the industries we serve.
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4. GIVING BUSINESS MORE POWER TO SEEK NEW MARKETS
Today, growth opportunities can lie a continent or a mouse click
away. And competitors, rather than carving up markets, are joining
forces to become fewer in number and greater in strength.
Together, the global economy and internet are changing the face
and pace of business, and giving rise to new issues — issues that
Keller and Heckman helps clients address.
It takes an in-depth knowledge of core industries to foster growth
plans wherever they may lead.
Keller and Heckman has that knowledge.
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5. The industries Keller and Heckman serves are highly regulated,
extremely technical, and subject to standards often based upon
debate as much as data.
Because of this, we not only advise clients of their obligations, but
also help define those obligations — the regulations and laws that
determine what a business can do and how it may do it.
Keller and Heckman plays an active role in policy, regulatory, and
legislative developments affecting rates, rights, and processes
before national, European and international authorities.
Our specialists evaluate technical data, technical and economic
feasibility studies, and engineering information, as well as
epidemiology and toxicity exposure data, to promote regulatory
approaches that serve the interests of both our clients and the
general public.
Yet, if regulatory enforcement leads to legal disputes, Keller and
Heckman provides effective representation before agencies and
the courts, in mediation, arbitration, or as a last resort, litigation,
pressing for the interpretation of existing rules in our clients’ favor.
GIVING BUSINESS MORE POWER TO DEFINE THE RULES
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6. Keller and Heckman LLP, founded in 1962, has built a broad
practice in the areas of regulatory law, litigation, and business
transactions, serving both domestic and international clients.
Our firm is a pioneer in the use of interdisciplinary approaches to
problem-solving.
Since 1971, we have had an in-house scientific staff that works
closely with the firm’s attorneys on matters of technical
complexity. Many of our attorneys also have government
experience and expertise in multiple areas of the law.
Keller and Heckman represents a wide range of companies and
trade associations serving a variety of industries, including food
and food additives, packaging, cosmetics, drugs and medical
devices.
The firm’s practice covers the diverse regulatory areas that affect
those industries, as well as business counseling and litigation. Our
attorneys and scientists emphasize creative service to clients
involved in the development of new products, services, and
markets.
KELLER AND HECKMAN LLP
Serving business through law and science
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7. Our offices
Keller and Heckman has offices in Brussels, Paris, San
Francisco, Shanghai and Washington.
As a result, wherever our clients operate, we help them
meet their responsibilities in a cost-effective manner,
balancing the demands of society with the needs of
stockholders.
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8. Paris office
Core areas of competence
● Food & Drug law
● Export and International Trade
● Litigation
● Agricultural law
● Novel foods & Food innovation
● Food safety and food marketing
● Borderline products (medical &
cosmetics)
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9. Keller and Heckman’s team in Paris provides counseling and liti-
gation services for the food, food packaging, cosmetic and drug
sector in Europe, the United States and Asia
Our attorneys advise clients on safety, labeling and advertising
issues, determine whether products require premarket government
approval or clearance and, where indicated, assist clients in
obtaining approvals or clearances. Together with our scientific
staff, we advise clients on the quantity and type of data required
to determine a suitable regulatory status for their products, and
develop effective testing programs to generate the data. In
addition, we help clients prepare and implement comprehensive
regulatory compliance programs, and we furnish manuals on
topics including inspections, recalls, enforcement actions, labeling,
and advertising.
We also represent clients in agency proceedings, legislative
proceedings, and court cases that might affect the marketing and
promotion of regulated products or the liability of industry
members. Additionally, we help facilitate clients’ entry into
international markets by monitoring and participating in the
policy development activities of European and international
organizations.
FOOD AND DRUG
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10. Thanks to the international team and presence of Keller and
Heckman, the Paris team is ideally positioned to assist French cli-
ents exporting to other member states within the EU, Asia or the
Unites States.
Keller and Heckman’s litigation practice is as broad as the firm’s
client base. Among the matters we litigate are cases involving
food, drugs, cosmetics, and medical devices; advertising and di-
rect mail; antitrust and unfair competition; government and private
contracts; trademarks, copyrights, and trade secrets; workplace,
safety, and employment law; white collar crimes;
telecommunications; and transportation.
EXPORT and INTERNATIONAL TRADE
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11. We serve our clients’ interests
through arbitration, mediation, and
early case evaluations where
litigation is appropriate or
unavoidable.
We pursue and defend clients’
interests in all adversarial venues —
at national and European level.
Our litigators appear on behalf of
our clients before trial and
appellate courts.
Litigation
Agricultural law
Keller and Heckman has experience in
all areas of the food chain. The team
in Paris advises producers of raw
agricultural materials and producer
organizations on issues relating to the
implementation of the Common
Agricultural Policy (CAP). These issues
can be agricultural, environmental,
technical and even
financial in nature (eco-conditionality,
biological/organic farming, litigation
on CAP subsidies, water quality, waste
management, etc).
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12. Keller and Heckman’s is particularly pro-active when it comes to
food innovations and bio-ethical discussions (plant and animal
genetic modifications; use of nanomaterials, the regulation of
“novel foods” and cloning).
In this perspective the Paris team frequently intervenes in the
lawmaking process as well as in its implementation and assists
clients at every stage of their innovation development,
for example:
● Data protection
● Market authorisation
● Operating agreements
● Packaging
Novel foods & food innovation
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13. Keller and Heckman assists operators throughout the food chain
(from farm to fork) with the marketing of animal feeds, food and
beverages, for example on:
● Dietary foods
● Energy drinks
● Halal food
This expertise covers also packaging methods, for example:
● Canned Foods
● Fresh foods
● Frozen foods
● 4th range
Food safety and food marketing
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14. Keller and Heckman’s has expanded to neighbouring areas of
food, such as medical devices and cosmetics.
Both as counsellor and as litigator the team in Paris covers all
regulatory issues, such as:
● Classification
● Data protection
● Labelling and promotion
● Market authorisation
● Product safety
● Test protocols
Borderline products (medical & cosmetics)
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15. Keller and Heckman helps
clients take new products and
services from concept to
reality

16. Address :
120 Rue La Boétie
75008 Paris
France
tel: +33 (0)1 86 26 19 32
fax: +33 (0)1 86 26 19 31
OUR
TEAM
Jean Savigny
savigny@khlaw.com
tel: +32 (0) 2 645 5071
Member of the Brussels and Paris Bar
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Mertenlentz@khlaw.com
M: +32 (0) 486 356 530
Member of the Brussels and Paris Bar
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Guillet@khlaw.com
tel: +33 (0)1 86 26 19 32
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