A founding partner of Denton Wilde Sapte’s Paris office, Jean-Bernard Thomas, has quit with an 11-lawyer team to launch a new firm with the former European managing partner of Arthur Andersen and the co-head of M&A from Landwell.

The move sees Thomas, together with Dentons’ Paris litigation partner Janine Franceschi-Bariani, leave the UK firm’s 55-lawyer French practice to form Sarrau Thomas Couderc.