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Lawyer | Criminal Defense & Business Litigation | Sports Law
With over 7 years of experience at the Paris Bar, I specialize in criminal law, civil and commercial litigation, as well as sports law.
- **Criminal Defense**: General criminal law (theft, assault, drug offenses) and business criminal law (misappropriation of corporate assets, corruption, fraud, money laundering).
- **Civil and Commercial Litigation**: Unfair competition, contractual and tort liability, commercial and residential leases.
- **Sports Law**: Sports agents, football law (FIFA, FFF and LFP regulations, fixed-term contracts), sponsorship agreements, and image rights.
- **Investigation and Inquiry**: Assistance during voluntary interviews, police custody, and interrogations by an investigating judge.
- **Criminal Procedure Documents**: Drafting release requests (DML), motions to quash, requests for evidence, and observations after final prosecution (RD).
- **Civil Procedure Documents**: Drafting formal notices, summons, pleadings, payment order requests, and pre-trial discovery measures (Article 145 of the Code of Civil Procedure).
- **Hearings**: Assistance and pleading before criminal, civil, and commercial courts.
- **Contractual Engineering**: Analysis and drafting of sponsorship agreements, commercial contracts, general terms and conditions of sale/use.
Urgency management is at the core of my practice. I guarantee immediate responsiveness and total availability: police custody, voluntary interviews, referrals, or emergency court proceedings. Each case receives a response within 24 hours to define a strategy and ensure optimal protection of your interests.
French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent
Spanish
Fluent
Can work on-site
Paris (up to 50km)
Experience
- YL AvocatsLawyer - Criminal Law and Civil and Commercial LitigationLEGALMay 2021 - June 2025 (4 years and 1 month)Paris, FranceCriminal Defense
- **Investigation and Inquiry**: Assistance during voluntary interviews, police custody, and interrogations by an investigating judge.
- **Procedural Documents**: Drafting release requests (DML), motions to quash, requests for evidence, and observations after final prosecution (RD).
- **Judgment Phase**: Assistance and pleading before the criminal court, the investigation chamber, the court of appeal, the assize court, and the police court.
- **Areas of Practice**: General criminal law (assault, theft, receiving stolen goods, offenses against property and persons, drug offenses) and business criminal law (fraud, corruption, influence peddling, forgery and use of forged documents, misappropriation of corporate assets, money laundering).
Civil and Commercial Litigation- **Strategy and Procedure**: Risk analysis, formal notices, drafting summons and pleadings, payment order requests, and pre-trial discovery measures (Article 145 of the Code of Civil Procedure).
- **Representation**: Hearings before the judicial court, the commercial court, and the court of appeal.
- **Areas of Practice**: Unfair competition, abrupt termination of commercial relations, commercial and residential leases, contractual liability, debt collection, and litigation concerning training organizations (proceedings before the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations).
- Verheyden & Cognard AvocatsLawyer - Sports LawSPORTSDecember 2018 - December 2020 (2 years and 1 month)Paris, FranceConsulting and Contractual Engineering
- **Rights Exploitation Contracts**: Drafting sponsorship agreements, patronage agreements, stadium usage agreements, and audiovisual rights concessions.
- **Sports Agents**: Drafting agency agreements and commission disputes.
- **E-commerce & Retail**: Development of GTC (physical and online stores), GTU, and GDPR compliance (privacy and cookie policies).
- **Intellectual Property**: Drafting publishing agreements, copyright assignment agreements, and trademark assignment and licensing agreements.
Litigation and Pre-litigation- **Defense of Rights**: Disputes relating to image rights, fight against ambush marketing, ticketing issues, and trademark infringement.
- **Dispute Resolution**: Drafting formal notices, summons, pleadings, and negotiation of settlement agreements.
- **Disciplinary**: Representation before federal bodies or disciplinary committees.
Corporate and Association Law- **Structuring**: Creation of image companies, company transformations, scope of business extensions, and drafting of association statutes.
- **Legal Secretarial**: Approval of accounts, appointment of statutory auditors, changes of registered office.
- **Regulations**: Advice on taxation (VAT, patronage/tax deductions) and regulations concerning collective reception of minors (ACM).
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Education
- Master of Science in ManagementESSEC Business School2017Parcours Grande Ecole
- Certificate of Aptitude to the Legal ProfessionParis Bar School (EFB)2018
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