Freelancer profile translated to English.

Description

With over twenty-five years of experience as a Legal Director and Secretary General in large multinational listed companies in the new technologies sector, I have created and developed legal departments. My role has been crucial in numerous strategic operations.

Given my experience, I can assist you with topics including:

Strategic operations, supporting the General Management,
Contract law, whether for client, supplier, or subcontractor contracts, as well as in engineering arrangements such as consortia or joint ventures.
Corporate law (Shareholder meetings, Board of Directors, Audit Committee, delegation of powers)
Business law (investment funds, agreements, shareholder agreements, management packages, etc.)
Stock market law (management of listed companies, AMF relations)
M&A operations (4 to 5 acquisitions per year)
Compliance (management of a competition investigation for over 4 years with the competition authority, implementation of Sapin 2 law, GDPR, etc.)
Training for operational staff, awareness sessions
Negotiation of insurance, health insurance, etc.
Crisis management, litigation
Drafting of legal policies (gifts, contractual, media, etc.)

As a member of the Group Executive Committee, a member of the Board of Directors, and Deputy Secretary General, I have managed financing files (syndicated loan agreements/stock market products), tax matters (CIR/transfer pricing), social law (implementation of an international mobility policy), and general services (commercial leases, etc.).

My 360° vision and my triple university background have always pushed me to take on new challenges. Dynamic and solution-oriented, my constant goal is to provide pragmatic answers.

I can operate in different, multicultural environments and in companies of various sizes, whether they are startups, mid-sized companies (ETI), or subsidiaries of large groups.

Industry field of expertise

Languages

French
Native or bilingual
English
Fluent

Workplace preferences

Can work on-site

Antony (up to 50km)

Groupe AUSY (Randstad Digital)
Group Legal Director and Compliance, Deputy Secretary General, Director
April 2008 - March 2023 (14 years and 11 months)
Issy-les-Moulineaux, France
acquired in Jan. 2017 by Randstad NL (Netherlands)
(Issy-les-Moulineaux, France)
• Revenue €600 million
• 7000 employees.
• Creation and management of the Group Legal Department
(15 people in Europe/US/India): management of French & international reporting to the foreign holding company, deployment and harmonization of internal policies in relation to the parent company.
• Management of structuring development operations
• Numerous M&A operations in France and internationally (Europe/India/USA)
• Public tender offers-mergers-partial asset contributions-business goodwill, stock market listing
• Organization of board meetings and general meetings, management of stock market law in relation to the AMF, management of capital investment operations
• Implementation of management packages (AGA-SO-retention plan) and shareholder agreements.
• Contract negotiation and litigation management
Clients, subcontractors, suppliers, private and public tenders, multi-site, global referencing. Creation of partnerships, temporary business consortia, joint ventures.
• Compliance & Governance, implementation of compliance procedures and plans, management of a sector-wide competition investigation with the authorities, compliance with Sapin 2 law, GDPR, export controls, securing intra-group operations and director liability (implementation of power delegations, intra-group re-invoicing agreements).
• Group risk management, member of the risk committee, creation of a crisis unit to ensure the safety of mobile employees (tax, social, social protection, and security).
• Negotiation of bank financing contracts (syndicated loan agreement) or stock market financing (ORNANES, BSAAR…).
• Taxation, implementation of transfer pricing policy in conjunction with the tax department, management of research tax credits.
Groupe ALTEN
Group Legal Director
AVIATION AND AEROSPACE
January 1998 - April 2008 (10 years and 3 months)
Boulogne-Billancourt, France
employees
• Management of the Group's stock market listing (IPO), management of stock market law in relation to the AMF, organization of Shareholder General Meetings, Board of Directors meetings.
• Creation and implementation of the Group's French and international Legal Department, management of 6 people in France & in-house international lawyers or external counsel.
• Support for General Management in achieving three-year strategic development plans, execution of numerous external growth M&A operations (3 to 4 per year), and organic growth.
• Advice to operational staff and training, support in complex arrangements and contract negotiation to win tenders and projects, establishment of European consortia.
• Management of taxation within the scope of legal operations.
• Bank and stock market financing operations with the implementation of structured products.
• Management of cross-functional international projects within the Structuring Projects Department (DDPS), implementation of a talent attraction, retention, and loyalty project for engineering consultants with the signing of agreements with the Ministry of Education and networks of major engineering schools.
Groupe Phenix Studios Billancourt
Legal Manager
September 1992 - January 1998 (5 years and 4 months)
Saint-Cloud, France
Real Estate and Services
• Management of the Group's corporate law in relation to the parent company, mergers, partial asset contributions, dissolution operations,
• Contractual negotiations, management of National Center for Cinematography rights, implementation of General Terms and Conditions of Sale & General Terms and Conditions of Purchase
• Advice to operational staff, establishment of a temporary business consortium for performing artists,
• Management of social litigation and relations with the Works Council and unions.