Nineteen practice areas, three poles
Employment law, corporate law and immigration law are held by the same person. A matter spanning several of them therefore does not change hands along the way.
Employment law
For
Company management and HR departments; employees and individuals.
Securing and steering employment and HR matters, from individual employment relations to collective restructurings.
- 01Employment auditMapping employment risk, reviewing practices for compliance, remediation planning.An employment audit starts from the documents actually in force — standard contracts, collective agreements, staff rules, works council minutes, the workplace risk assessment record — and tests them against what is observed in practice.
- 02Health and safety at workDuty of care, risk assessment records, workplace accidents, psychosocial risk.An employer's duty of care is an enhanced obligation of means: what is judged is the measures taken and their traceability, not whether harm occurred.
- 03RestructuringsRedundancies, employment protection plans, collective termination agreements.A restructuring turns on its timetable as much as on its substance.
- 04Distressed businesses — employment aspectsPrevention, safeguard, receivership and liquidation, from both employer and employee standpoints.In insolvency proceedings the employment strand has its own timetable, its own authorisations and its own funders.
- 05Employee relationsWorks councils, mandatory annual bargaining, collective agreements, dispute management.Employee relations are prepared like a negotiation: a clear mandate, known margins, a walk-away point identified before entering the room.
- 06Individual employment relationsContracts, sensitive clauses, negotiated exits, settlements, senior executive status.Individual employment matters almost always turn on three documents: the contract, its amendments and the written exchanges around it.
- 07Employment litigationEmployment tribunal, court of appeal, urgent applications. Dismissal, discrimination, harassment.An employment tribunal case is built on documents, and assembling the bundle comes before drafting submissions.
- 08Social security lawWorkplace injury and occupational illness, social contribution audits, benefit disputes, pensions.Social security litigation has its own deadlines, often short and enforced by strict time bars, and its own courts.
- 09Employment criminal lawBreaches of labour regulation, obstruction, undeclared work, endangerment.Criminal exposure in employment law falls on individuals: the head of the business, the holder of a delegation of authority, sometimes an operational manager.
Corporate law
For
Business owners, directors, shareholders and founders.
Structuring and securing a company's legal operations, from incorporation to governance and capital transactions.
- 01Incorporation and governanceChoice of corporate form, drafting of articles, allocation of powers and voting thresholds.The choice of corporate form is not a matter of preference: it follows from the number of shareholders, their relationship to the capital, the social security regime sought for the director and the possible entry of an investor.
- 02Shareholders' agreementsAllocating power between shareholders, minority protection, exit and liquidity provisions.A shareholders' agreement is drafted for the day of the disagreement, not the day of signature.
- 03Mergers, disposals and reorganisationsMergers, business transfers, disposals, carve-outs, intra-group reorganisations.A combination or disposal is prepared on two parallel timetables: that of the instruments — merger terms, sale agreement, shareholder meetings — and that of employee consultations, which begins earlier than expected and drives the signing date.
- 04Directors and corporate officersDirectors' employment and tax status, dual mandate, removal from office, negotiated departure.A director holds two distinct positions: a corporate office, revocable under company rules, and sometimes an employment contract, protected by employment law.
- 05Securing sensitive decisionsHigh-stakes decisions taken under risk: audit trail, reasoning, enforceability.Some decisions are taken in a setting where error cannot be corrected: insolvency proceedings open or imminent, a shareholder dispute, an audit under way, a transaction subject to a strict time bar.
- 06Employment and corporate interfaceIntegrated handling of transactions with both HR and corporate dimensions, in a single file.A business sale, an intra-group reorganisation or a director's departure fall simultaneously under corporate and employment law.
Immigration and nationality law
For
Individuals and families; employers recruiting or seconding foreign staff.
Residence, work and nationality: building applications, holding to the deadlines and challenging refusals before the administrative courts.
- 01Residence and residence permitsFirst applications, renewals, change of status, family reunification.A permit application is won or lost on the file that is filed, rarely on the legal argument.
- 02Employing foreign workersWork authorisation, talent passport, secondment and intra-group mobility.This is as much an employment law matter as an immigration one, which is why it sits here: an employer recruiting a foreign national takes on obligations under the Labour Code, the Social Security Code and the immigration code, in a single file and on a single timetable..
- 03Refusals, removal and litigationPermit refusals, removal orders, applications to the administrative court.Immigration litigation runs on short deadlines, sometimes forty-eight hours, and a missed deadline closes the appeal whatever its merits.
- 04French nationalityNaturalisation, declaration through marriage, certificates of nationality.Access to nationality is prepared long before filing.
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Companies and HR teams
The firm works upstream of high-stakes employment and corporate decisions, and in defence once litigation has begun.
Directors and founders
Structuring a company, organising power between shareholders and securing one's own position as a director are decisions taken once and corrected only with difficulty.
Employees and individuals
The firm acts for employees and individuals, both in an advisory role and before the employment tribunal and the social division of the civil court.