Experience
Delphine Dendievel is a co-founding partner of Apostrophe, a commercial law firm exclusively dedicated to dispute resolution and corporate risk prevention.
Apostrophe offers its clients comprehensive expertise in commercial litigation, white-collar crime, real estate litigation, internal investigations and compliance.
Before co-founding Apostrophe in January 2021, Delphine Dendievel practised for eight years in the Business Litigation and White-Collar crime department of the Anglo-Saxon law firm AO Shearman LLP.
Apostrophe assists French and foreign companies in all sectors of activity (industry, finance, retail, technology, real estate, etc.) in the following areas:
- Complex and strategic business litigation of all kinds (including commercial, corporate and M&A, real estate, banking and financial disputes), including cross-border disputes;
- Criminal and regulatory proceedings (economic and financial criminal law, tax law, labour law, real estate law);
- Conducting internal investigations in France and internationally (fraud, corruption, sexual and psychological harassment, violation of regulatory requirements or safety obligations, duty of care, etc.);
- Implementation of anti-corruption and CSR/duty of care compliance programmes (risk mapping, third-party assessment, code of conduct/ethics charter, ethics hotline, etc.), as well as regulatory compliance and DGCCRF/DDPP controls.
Apostrophe and its two partners, Delphine Dendievel and Sophie Gijsbers, have been recognised in several professional rankings, the most recent of which are as follows:
- Legal 500: ‘Compliance and Internal Investigations’ (‘Firm to watch’) - EMEA 2025 ranking;
- Best Lawyers in France: ‘Litigation’ and ‘Criminal Defence’ - 2026 ranking;
- Décideurs: ‘Commercial Litigation’, ‘Financial & Balance Sheet Litigation’, ‘Criminal Tax Law’, ‘Criminal Labour Law’, ‘Internal Investigations’ and “Compliance” (‘reputable practices’) and ‘Criminal Business Law’ (‘high reputation’) - 2025 ranking;
- Palmarès du droit (Le Monde du droit): ‘Compliance’ (Gold), ‘Business Criminal Law and Companies in Difficulty’ (Bronze) and Special Award for ‘Most Promising Law Firm of the Year’ - 2025 ranking.
Delphine Dendievel is also recognised in the Choiseul Awards' ‘40 People Shaping the Future of Law’ in its first edition in May 2025.
Thanks to her comprehensive dual training in Law and Economics, Delphine Dendievel pays particular attention to the economic and operational aspects of the cases she handles.
She has also been teaching for several years at Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne University, as part of the Master 2 Arbitration and International Trade Law programme (‘Advanced Conflict of Jurisdictions Law’), and regularly lectures at the Sciences Po Paris Law School.
