Career:

• Bar admission: 1995
• Masters Degree in Business Law from Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas (1992) and a Master of Advanced Studies (DEA) in Private Law Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (1993)
• Bachelor’s Degree from Science-Po Paris (Paris School of Political Sciences) (1991)
• Partner, Rambaud Martel
• Partner, Salans (1991)
• Partner of Altana (2009)

Areas of expertise:

• Restructuring
• Corporate law, Mergers & Acquisitions
• Civil Litigation
• Financing

Practice Areas:

• Restructuring, prevention and handling of corporate difficulties and crisis management
• Specialist in mergers-acquisitions transactions and, more generally, in corporate law, general commercial law and banking and finance law
• Complex litigation in corporate law, liability and commercial law, including traditional M&A transactions
• Specialisation in companies experiencing difficulties, groups restructuring one or several subsidiaries, creditors, investment groups or funds, etc

Languages: 

• French
• English
• German

Distinctions:

• Featured in rankings established by Chambers, Legal 500, Décideurs [Leaders League], Option Droit et Affaires  and distinguished with a Silver Trophy (restructuring) by the “Trophées du Droit” 2017.

Publications:

• “L’acquisition de Viadeo : une interaction innovante entre les lois française et américaine” – Expertises, n°433, mars 2018 
• “Innovative play between French and US laws: the cross-border acquisition of Viadeo a French/US-based social networking platform” – Corporate Counsel (Focus Restructuring, Winter 2017)
• “Du bon usage de la procédure pour faciliter le règlement des difficultés par la négociation” – Décideurs Stratégie Finance Droit – September 2010
• “Seeking the Optimal System in the EU in Insolvency Proceedings: Council Regulation (EC) No. 1346/2000” – Biuletyn Arbitrazowy, n°11 – 2009
• “Comment désamorcer les potentiels conflits entre les actionnaires et dirigeants dans un contexte de LBO en difficultés” – Magazine des Affaires, n°39 – March 2009