Aurélia Cadain > Kennedys > Paris, France > Lawyer Profile
Kennedys Offices
31 RUE DE LISBONNE
75008 PARIS
France
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Aurélia Cadain
Position
Aurélia Cadain is a founding Partner of Kennedys’ Paris office, and an insurance specialist with extensive expertise in complex litigation matters of transport law, industrial risk, insurance and product liability, and healthcare products.
Aurélia acts for global insurers and assists well-known airline companies both in their day-to-day operations and important litigations. She also regularly acts for pharmaceutical companies.
Aurélia’s practice includes coverage disputes, defence work, subrogation claims. which spans several key industry sectors (aerospace, transport, tourism, manufacturing, health industry and medical malpractice) with a particular focus on product liability. She has developed particular experience in complex expert-appraisal proceedings including in aviation and marine matters, and industrial risk.
Aurélia also regularly advises on litigating complex transport claims (in aviation, marine, road and rail) involving individuals and carried goods.
Aurélia is the current contributor to the French chapter for GTDT: Aviation Liability and co-contributor to the French chapter for GTDT: Insurance and to the Aviation Law Review.
Languages
French, English, Spanish
Memberships
Aurélia is a member of AIDA (Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances), IAWA (International Aviation Womens Association), SFDAS and ISC France.
Education
Aurélia holds a master’s degree in business law from the University of Paris X – Nanterre as well as a master of international law and management from HEC Business School, Paris. She also holds an LLM in European law from the University of Canterbury.
Lawyer Rankings
France > Aviation
With a focus on insurance litigation, Kennedys has a strong reputation in the market for handling a wide variety of disputes such as product liability and cargo claims, often with a cross-border dimension. Aurélia Cadain handles the group’s carriers’ liability matters, acting on behalf of multinational insurance companies and their insureds in addition to carriers. Nicolas Bouckaert is particularly active in regard to aerospace product liability, though his broad practice also extends to commercial litigation and the defence sector.
France > Insurance
(Leading individuals)Kennedys is highly regarded for its expertise in insurance litigation – particularly handling cross-border disputes on behalf of leading international insurers and reinsurers – and recently bolstered its regulatory and compliance offering with the hire of Safine Hadri from DS Avocats in October 2023. Core areas of strength range from property, product liability and professional liability claims to coverage disputes. Paris managing partner Alexis Valençon, Aurélia Cadain, a standout for product liability litigation, and Nicolas Bouckaert, who is active in political risk and trade credit disputes, are names to note.