Expertises Experience and Specialisation

1987-1993 Legal Advisor in Securities Law at S J Berwin & Co, City of London. All meetings, drafting etc conducted entirely in English.

Incorporation of Investment Banks, Fund Management Companies, Stockbrokers and securing the necessary authorisations, drafting contracts, lobbying UK and European financial institutions and carrying out all the steps necessary to launch the same.

1994-1996 Chief officer of a Consumers' Group in Rennes (UFCS, equivalent of CAB).

1996-1995 Association with a Law Firm (conseil juridique), advising businesses and drafting contracts.

1996 Establishment of my Practice

Drafting of contracts, legal advice, prevention of disputes, constitution of files for all types of private and professional litigation, defense of clients’ interests before French courts, from tribunals to the Appeal Courts (tribunal de commerce, tribunal judiciaire, conseil de prud'hommes, cour d'appel).

1999 trained as a Mediator.

Member of the National Bureau for the pension fund “Avocats de France”.

Qualifications

• Masters Degree in Business Law • (Law Faculty, University of Rennes 1).
• DESS, Post Masters Diploma in International Business Law • (Diplôme d'Etudes Supérieures Spécialisees, Law Faculty, University of Tours).
• CAPA - Qualification to Practice as an Avocate (Certificat d'Aptitude à la Profession d'Avocat, at the Centre for Training for Avocats, Rennes).

Qualified with the Certificat d’Aptitude à la Profession d’Avocat (CAPA) / Certification conferred by the French State for professionals qualifying to act as an avocat/lawyer. Avocat (lawyer) registered at the Rennes Bar (Barreau de Rennes) and subject to the rules and ethics of the profession of Avocat, notably those concerning the settling of disputes summed up below: In respect of article L 152-1 of the Consumers' Code (Code de la Consommation), in the case of a dispute the rules of the profession of Avocat anticipate, after having taken all measures possible to resolve the dispute directly with the lawyer by means of a written complaint, a possible appeal to the Mediator of Consumer law acting for the profession of Lawyers : Mme Carole Pascarel, 180 Boulevard Haussmann, 75008 Paris,, email : mediateur@mediateur-consommation-avocat.fr, website : https://mediateur-consommation-avocat.fr. The Batonnier (head avocat) of the Order of Avocats of Rennes can also be approached regarding any litigation concerning the lawyer/avocat.

Where I practice

Based in Rennes,  principally I work in the West of France,  in all four departments of Brittany,  Ille et Vilaine,  Côtes D'Armor, Morbi- han, Finistère, and in neighbouring Loire-Atlantique, Mayenne, Manche  and Calvados.

In the main towns and cities: Rennes,  Nantes,  Angers,  Fougères, Mayenne, Saint-Malo, Dinan, Dinard,  Morlaix, Vannes, Saint-Brieuc, Lorient,  Saint Nazaire,  Avranches, Caen, Cherbourg, Laval.

Paris and region.