Sandra Cabanne & Alexandre Nappey

Sandra Cabanne and Alexandre Nappey are the founding partners of SCAN Avocats, a French law firm specialising in intellectual property, digital law and data protection. At the Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025, the firm was recognised as Trademark Law Firm of the Year in France, an award that reflects the strength of its brand-protection practice and its ability to help clients secure and defend their trademarks in France and across international markets.

Established in 2017, SCAN Avocats was founded by two partners whose shared vision rests on innovation, technicality and pragmatism. Described as recognised professionals, they built the firm to understand the particular challenges of economic actors and to deliver counsel of real practical value. The practice operates from offices in Paris, Lyon and Strasbourg and works alongside a network of more than one hundred international correspondents, enabling it to protect and enforce trademark rights not only within France but in jurisdictions around the world.

Trademark law is central to the firm's intellectual property offering. A trademark carries the reputation and goodwill of a business, and protecting it demands careful attention across the whole of its life cycle, from the clearance and registration of new marks to the management of portfolios, the monitoring of potential conflicts and the enforcement of rights against infringement and counterfeiting. SCAN Avocats advises clients on building and defending their brands, drawing on its combined expertise in intellectual property, digital law and data protection to address the ways in which trademarks are used, challenged and exploited in both traditional and online environments. The firm's standing in this area is reflected in its inclusion in the WTR 1000 rankings for 2026 and a special jury mention in trademark law at the Sommet du Droit in 2026.

The firm supports its trademark work with proprietary tools, including a dedicated trademark database and a domain-name management platform, which allow clients to monitor and protect their brands systematically across digital and physical marketplaces. This coordinated approach is particularly valuable in an era when brand infringement frequently originates online, and when effective protection requires linking trademark strategy with domain-name and digital-rights management. The partners bring technical precision and creativity to this work, combined with a determined defence of their clients' interests.

SCAN Avocats serves a broad and varied clientele spanning sectors such as transport, food service, healthcare, luxury goods, sport, real estate and the digital industries, and its clients range from multinational corporations and mid-market enterprises to start-ups and public-sector bodies. Because a strong brand matters to businesses of every kind, the firm's trademark practice cuts across industries, advising clients both in France and internationally on how to establish, manage and enforce the marks that distinguish their products and services in the marketplace.

Through SCAN Avocats, Sandra Cabanne and Alexandre Nappey have created a practice that pairs specialist trademark expertise with wider strengths in digital law and data protection, offering clients a coherent strategy for protecting their brands in a connected world. The Corporate INTL Global Awards 2025 recognition as Trademark Law Firm of the Year in France affirms the firm's standing among the businesses and institutions it serves. For companies seeking to secure, manage and defend their trademarks, whether at home or across borders, the firm provides experienced, innovative and pragmatic counsel grounded in a thorough understanding of both intellectual property and the digital environment in which modern brands compete.