PinsentsPinsent Curtis Biddle has secured an exclusive alliance with the bulk of Paris firm Granrut Vatier Baudelot, giving the national firm its first formal alliance in one of Europe’s major legal centres.

The alliance, which will become formal on 1 January, 2002, will see Pinsents entering into joint marketing, secondments and cost sharing with 10 of the 18 partners at the specialist technology, media, private equity and insurance firm, which is splitting in half.