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Géraldine Arbant

Géraldine Arbant

La pratique de Géraldine englobe l'ensemble des activités en matière de propriété intellectuelle et de nouvelles technologies, aussi bien en conseil qu'en contentieux. Géraldine est associée de l'Intellectual Property Group. Elle assiste les clients dans leurs stratégies et problématiques en matière de protection (dépôt et gestion de portefeuilles de droits) et de défense de leurs actifs de propriété intellectuelle (marques, brevets, droits d'auteur et dessins et modèles). Elle intervient aussi bien en conseil (rédaction et gestion d'accords de licence, de contrats cadres, contrats de partenariat, Recherche et Développement, audits), qu'en contentieux (actions en contrefaçon, concurrence déloyale, parasitisme) devant les tribunaux ou dans le cadre de médiation ou d'arbitrage français ou internationaux. Les clients proviennent des secteurs des sciences de la vie, de l'agroalimentaire, de l'automobile, de la distribution grand public, et des technologies innovantes. Elle conseille aussi les clients sur les aspects liés aux nouvelles technologies : conseil en matière de logiciels, internet, digital (rédaction de contrats de licences, hébergement, prestations de services, gestion de contentieux). Enfin, Géraldine intervient en matière de protection des données personnelles : réalisation d'audits des systèmes d'information, gestion des relations des clients avec les autorités nationales de contrôle des données personnelles, ainsi que sur les questions relatives aux technologies et sur l'application des dispositions nationales et internationales dans ce domaine : vidéosurveillance, cybersurveillance, transfert de données. Avant de rejoindre Bird & Bird en 2015, Geraldine était associée au sein d'un important cabinet français.
Mélanie Bercot

Mélanie Bercot

As a Counsel in the Tech & Comms group in Paris, and a member of the Paris Bar, Mélanie advises our telecoms clients on a wide range of issues and represents them in litigation. She assists telecom operators in all kinds of projects. In particular, she advises our clients in their projects and issues related to network telecoms (deployment and maintenance of telecom networks), in drafting and negotiating sales contracts of telecom services (contracts with operators and B2B/B2C end-users), procurement contracts (contracts with other operators related to network and wholesale purchase, contracts with providers such as subcontractors or telecoms equipment providers). She also supports telecom operators on regulatory issues (licence, access to resources, discussions with regulators, lobbying related to frequency allocations). She is also experienced in supporting public authorities in their projects to roll out electronic communications networks, especially when there is a lack of private initiative. In this regard, she has gained expertise defining the legal strategy, drafting tenders and selecting operators, as well as monitoring the execution of public contracts. More recently, she has represented Bird & Bird's clients in litigations before administrative and commercial courts and assisted them in their dispute settlements before the national regulatory authority (the ARCEP). She previously held various positions within the legal department of a public authority and worked for a major French telecoms operator. From these past experiences, she has gained the ability to understand and identify legal and operational problems faced by her clients.
Frédérique Bocqueraz

Frédérique Bocqueraz

Frédérique is a lawyer in our Intellectual Property Group in our Lyon office. With about 15 years of experience, she assists our clients mainly in the context of IP litigation and pre-litigation. She acts mainly for retail and consumer businesses and mostly deals with copyright or trade mark infringement, unfair competition and free riding issues. Where possible, a transactional approach to finding an amicable solution is preferred before any legal proceedings, during the proceedings or in the context of mediation or conciliation proceedings. Over the years, she has developed particular experience in international copyright law issues and in the assessment of damages in the context of infringement proceedings. Her experience in IP disputes helps her to advise our clients to secure their IP rights in particular over employees' work and to enhance their IP assets. She has been involved in the creation and implementation of compensation policies for inventors and tools to identify and formalise know-how and to document the creation process. She regularly assists our clients in the management of employees' claims concerning intellectual property rights on work performed in the course of their duties. She also has experience in dealing with the day-to-day IP agreements (assignment, licence, partnership, consortium, settlement agreements etc.)
Diane de Bustamante

Diane de Bustamante

Diane is a counsel in the Paris-based Finance Team. Her practice focuses on aviation finance and leasing, where she has an extensive experience in structuring, documenting and negotiating transactions on French and English law, as well as cross-border aspects of the transactions. She advises primarily airlines, lessors and lenders on their transactions. She assists clients with their complex tax structures such as green financing, JOLCOs, Insurance product financing (Balthazar and Piiq) and title retention agreements as part of SLBs. Working closely and building lasting relationship with her clients has allowed her to work on new topics and innovative financings/products such as sustainable lending, Balthazar and PIQ-type financings. Her goal is to act as a one-stop shop for our clients in aviation-related, corporate, finance and tax matters.
Laurence Hanley

Laurence Hanley

Laurence is an aviation finance specialist, advising on all structured finance matters, from LOI to funds flow, covering debt, JOLCOs, green financing, Balthazar and PIQ-type financings, specialist sale agreements, tax structuring and aircraft portfolio securitisations, with a specialisation in the negotiation of operating leases and litigation stemming from aircraft redeliveries. He also advises lessors and lenders, particularly in relation to security and asset recovery and assist with the setting up and operation of special purpose companies. Leading the aviation finance team, he provides English and French law advice for all stages of financing an aircraft, from negotiating the all-important letter of intent to assisting with the practicalities of delivery and aircraft and security registrations. One particular strength is negotiating practical terms for operating leases, where his decades of experience promote watchfulness for onerous clauses and gives him the means to provide alternative solutions acceptable to the leasing industry. Laurence also advises on SAF and regulatory issues, and tax-efficient structures for leasing into certain jurisdictions, including by setting up SPC lessor vehicles in France. His aim is to complement your own technical team by integrating with them over the documentation process, so that the documents match your operating reality, rather than expose you to a default by introducing obligations agreed between two legal teams with no insight into how you operate your business in practice. The team is friendly and multinational, with French, English, German, Russian, Spanish and Arabic languages all spoken fluently by versatile lawyers with access to expertise critical to the commercialisation of emerging technologies key to the aviation industry, including, for example, the negotiation of SAF supply agreements. Building lasting relationships with clients has provided the team with a unique back-catalogue of clauses that have been stress tested in practice, for example aircraft redelivery terms in scenarios where the redelivery condition of the aircraft is litigated, or where liability for an unexpected insurance premium tax is contested. We are happy to assist younger companies who do not yet have all the experience that they require to give themselves the advantage of trading on documentation that allows them to compete with more established peers. Our client base represents an interesting mix of airlines, lessors, and lenders, with the majority of lessor and lender work being focused on asset recovery, restructuring, advice on security and local corporate work.
Johanna Harelimana

Johanna Harelimana

Johanna is an associate, with experience advising clients on regulatory matters across several sectors, especially in life sciences, food and beverages, and environmental sectors. She currently offers both French and international clients legal advice on product's qualification, clinical trials, market access, price and reimbursement, anti-gift regulation, advertising and promotion, e-health (including telemedicine), as well as drafting contracts (distribution, professional services, clinical trial agreements, etc). She also assists with regulatory advice on other products such as cosmetics, biocide, phytopharmaceuticals and novel food. She works hand in hand with the data protection, commercial, intellectual property, and corporate departments of the firm to provide clients with tailor made advice and solutions.
Laurent Labatte

Laurent Labatte

Working as Counsel in our Paris Intellectual Property Group, Laurent draws on both his R&D engineering experience and on his registered French and European patent attorney experience to advise our clients on all phases of patent litigation matters. His thorough knowledge of European patent law and enthusiasm for complex technological issues have equipped him to effectively navigate patent litigations in numerous technical fields, ranging from video coding to concrete mixes, coffee capsules, telecoms and industrial mechanics to name just a few. From software engineering to judicial litigation, his professional career has been built upon three complementary professions. Laurent started out working as an R&D engineer for five years, in a large defence electronics company, working on the design and development of engineering projects. The discovery of law practice triggered his interest and led him onto a registered French and European patent attorney's path. He worked at the French office of an international IP firm for six years where he assisted innovators in protecting their inventions by drafting and prosecuting patents in a number of patent offices. He was also given the opportunity to act as a reference in European patent law for a large New Zealand industrial property firm for a few months. Now, as part of the Paris team and together with his colleagues across Bird & Bird, he is always keen to delve into clients' various activity fields and to guide them through the maze of patent litigation. Laurent is eager to assist with devising the most effective strategy in order to achieve practical defensive or offensive results before the French courts, or for the purpose of negotiations. His former experience in patent prosecution allows him to better discern the opposing party's weaknesses and anticipate potential risks arise from a competitor's patent portfolio. Aside from pure litigation proceedings work, he also regularly advises his clients on freedom-to-operate matters, risk assessment, and other opportunities offered by their patent assets. Since 2014 he has been lecturing on patent law at Paris-Sud University and has been a member of several professional associations such as LES France and APEB.
Anne-Sophie Lampe

Anne-Sophie Lampe

Anne-Sophie is a partner based in our Paris office, with 15 years' experience in the technology sector. She specialises in IT and Internet litigation, and works for both tech companies and end-user clients. She is passionate about the technology sector because of its relentless innovation. In addition to her practice in IT litigation, she is also interested in market trends, such as the ongoing digital transformation of companies, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and specifically the challenges related to generative AI. Additionally,  Anne-Sophie closely follows the increasing regulations surrounding platforms, which are inevitably leading to complex legal disputes. She is passionate about understanding our clients' businesses to better serve them. She loves to impart information, so she teaches in two different Masters 2, dedicated to Digital creation law, as well as organising training for Numeum (formerly Syntec Numérique, a union of IT service providers) and writing articles.
Anne-Charlotte Le Bihan

Anne-Charlotte Le Bihan

Anne-Charlotte co-head our French IP team and our International patent group. Best known for her strategic and business approach to complex IP matters, she has significant experience in both contentious and non-contentious intellectual property matters, developed over the past 22 years. Her major forte is patent litigation, notably in the pharmaceutical, electronics and telecommunications sectors. She coordinates highly complex pan-European patent litigations and is known for her capacity to work on complex technical matters as well as very sensitive legal issues. Anne-Charlotte was President of LES France from 2017 to 2020 and was a Board member of CEIPI until 2023.
Benjamin Lichtlé

Benjamin Lichtlé

Benjamin is a partner in charge of the French tax practice, advising and assisting our clients on all aspects of taxation and has a strong expertise in group taxation. Benjamin has extensive experience of group taxation, advising on all transactions in a domestic and international context. His clients operate in a variety of sectors, including chemicals, engineering, healthcare and retail. Benjamin also manages multidisciplinary teams in different countries for large-scale reorganisations of international groups in project mode. He regularly performs audit assignments and has extensive experience in the tax structuring of acquisition transactions.
Willy Mikalef

Willy Mikalef

Willy is a tech-friendly lawyer based in Paris, specialising in data protection, communications and satellites, with a commitment to providing business-oriented, sustainable advice. After training at a telecommunications operator, an e-commerce world leader, the European Space Agency and the TMT departments of law firms in Paris and London, and gaining significant experience in commercial, communications, satellite and data protection law, he joined Bird & Bird in 2013. This experience helps him advise some of the world's most technologically advanced organisations on the implementation of regulatory requirements, the negotiation of commercial contracts with a strong regulatory component or where he acts for clients in proceedings before the regulators and courts. He has experience in advising businesses and regulators in all areas of communications and satellite law across Europe and emerging countries. This includes network deployment, licensing, radio spectrum, numbering, interconnection, cybersecurity, public safety, law enforcement, consumer protection, terminal telecommunications equipment product conformity, regulatory taxes, etc. His expertise also covers satellite regulatory and commercial matters such as licensing requirements for space activities, liability and space contracts. In the field of data protection, he assists organisations in developing and implementing their privacy program, establishing GDPR compliance tools (eg. information notices, internal policies and procedures, privacy impact assessments, data breach notification process, etc.), complying with international data transfer requirements (data transfer agreements, BCRs, etc), responding to data subjects requests and complaints or representing companies in their dealings with data protection authorities. With his telecoms background, he is also able to provide expert advice on data protection requirements which specifically apply in the electronic communications sector (cookies, email direct marketing, traffic data retention obligations, and other ePrivacy obligations). Willy regularly acts as a lead lawyer on international projects and transactions. His secondment to Bird & Bird's London office in 2017 taught him to work as a single, cohesive team with his colleagues across all of our offices, and beyond the firm with our network of trusted partners in America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. This helps him implement complex multi-jurisdictional projects smoothly and efficiently.
Nicolas Mordaunt-Crook

Nicolas Mordaunt-Crook

Nicolas has over 25 years of experience practicing banking and financial law and has extensive experience of the Industry, having supported a broad range of players: credit and payment institutions, investment firms, asset managers, insurance companies and financial intermediaries. He provides his clients advice and assistance relating to the provision of banking, investment, fund management and insurance services or financial intermediation, both from a regulatory and transactional perspective. Nicolas  has extensive knowledge of laws and regulations that apply to different types of banking and financial activities in France and the EU, as well as of the procedures for obtaining relevant permissions or licences. His practice aims to address the needs of both local and international players : In the banking / payment services and capital markets space, he supports clients with initial set-ups (including applications for authorization and EU passport filings), the design and roll out of large-scale and cross-border, reorganizations, business cooperation / joint-venture schemes and marketing / product distribution arrangements. More generally, he provides technical advice relating to day-to-day business on a broad range of banking or capital markets related issues In the Asset Management area,  he has long-standing experience with structuring AMF-authorized investment management companies and their funds, primarily in the alternative space (private equity and real estate areas in particular). He also advises foreign players on the marketing of their funds in France (alternative or UCITS), with due consideration given to local rules and constraints (112) In the Insurance sector,  he supports both insurers and brokers, with particular focus on product-related regulatory and contractual issues, distribution schemes and reorganisation and / or merger of insurance companies.
Nicolas Morelli

Nicolas Morelli

Nicolas est associé responsable du département Contentieux à Paris et co responsable du groupe international Restructuration et Procédures Collectives A ce titre,Nicolas assiste les clients du cabinet dans les contentieux commerciaux et financiers complexes. Sa pratique est également reconnue en Restructuration et Procédures Collectives où il intervient à l'occasion de la mise en place de solutions de restructurations aussi bien financières qu'industrielles, tant dans le cadre de procédures de traitement amiable des difficultés que dans le cadre de procédures judiciaires.
Boubeker Moussaoui

Boubeker Moussaoui

Boubeker is an Associate Lawyer in the Paris office and a member of the Aviation Finance team. He is involved in a wide range of transactions covering mainly commercial aircraft, but also helicopters, engines and spare parts. He also covers leasing and financing transactions, as well as number of corporate matters. Providing both English and French Law advice, Boubeker assists major airlines with novation, leasing (whether operating or financial leases, including the review of LOIs), financing transactions (including green finance and various insurance products (such as Balthazar). He also assists lessors, particularly with the setting up and operation of special purpose companies (SPVs). He enjoys being a part of a multicultural team. The team provides French, English and Irish Law advice and, speaks French, English, Russian, Arabic and Spanish. They have a very close relationship with their clients, and always aim to protect their best interest.
Thomas Oster

Thomas Oster

Associé au sein du département Droit de la concurrence et compliance à Paris, sa pratique couvre le droit de la concurrence européen et national, tant en conseil qu'en contentieux, ainsi que le droit commercial et le droit de la distribution. Thomas a également développé une compétence en matière de compliance. Il contribue à l'élaboration et à la mise en oeuvre de programmes de conformité au droit de la concurrence et procède régulièrement à la notification d'opérations de concentration auprès de la Commission européenne et de l'Autorité de la concurrence
Romain Perray

Romain Perray

Romain advises clients across the full spectrum of data protection and data security matters, including automotive, adtech, life sciences, insurance, e-commerce, leisure, social networks, and even the public sector, especially in the context of smart city projects. His experience extends to multijurisdictional cross-border data transfers strategy (including global intragroup data transfers framework agreements), joint data controllers and/or data processor agreements, the formulation of privacy and/or cookies policies, and the use of personal data for marketing purposes, including through profiling techniques, particularly in a Big Data context. He has also conducted numerous privacy impact assessments (notably in cases of pseudonymisation or anonymisation) and international data protection audits to ensure compliance with both EU and domestic data protection requirements. Beyond data privacy, he also advises on the EU Data Act, open data issues and cybersecurity (including incident response to cyberattacks, NIS2 and DORA compliance programs). He is also a lecturer in data privacy and data protection at the University of Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne, the University of Sorbonne Abu Dhabi, the University of Sorbonne Morocco and the University of Tokyo. Alongside his work, he lectures on data privacy and data protection in Master of Laws classes at the University of Paris-I Panthéon-Sorbonne, the University of Sorbonne Abu Dhabi, Sorbonne Morocco and the University of Tokyo (2026). He is also a regular contributor to leading legal publications, including LexisNexis and Lamy Editions, and the author of two significant manuals on data protection and video monitoring. He is a bilingual speaker and advises clients in both English and French.
Xavier Philipps

Xavier Philipps

With a focus on tech and complex financial matters, Xavier offers a full-spectrum criminal defense, helping clients navigate both traditional white-collar issues, emerging digital risks and regulatory disputes. As a white-collar crime attorney, he guides clients through every step of the legal process, from preventing risks to defending clients in high-stakes criminal trials. His work often starts with risk identification, prevention and management where he helps businesses and executives navigating criminal and regulatory intricacies. Xavier conducts internal investigations if misconduct is suspected, gathering evidence and advising on corrective measures. When clients face a judicial or regulatory investigation, he assists them in responding to inquiries. He manages dawn-raids and seizures, ensuring their rights are protected. He also accompany clients through negotiation with prosecutors and judges when alternatives to prosecution are possible. Xavier represents his clients before the courts, often working with forensic experts to analyze complex financial or technical data. He has also developed a specific expertise with auditors, accountants and other financial service providers and often defends them before courts and regulatory bodies. As former Secrétaire de la Conférence des avocats du Barreau de Paris (a two-hundred-year-old institution which elects each year, by means of a public speaking competition, 12 lawyers who will be court-appointed in the most complex and serious criminal matters) Xavier gained a valuable in-depth knowledge of courts, judges and prosecutors as well as procedural technicalities to be envisaged for each specific case. Before joining Bird & Bird, he worked 10 years at Tier-1 law firms specializing in Tech-oriented disputes and white-collar crime.
Flore Poloni

Flore Poloni

Flore Poloni is a partner in the dispute resolution group in Paris, with extensive experience advising companies and public entities on complex cross-border disputes. Her work focuses on complex arbitration proceedings across strategic sectors such as energy, defence, life sciences and logistics, often linked to projects in Africa. She acts as counsel in significant international cases and also serves as an arbitrator, offering clients a well-rounded perspective on dispute resolution. She has extensive experience in high-stakes arbitrations arising from commercial agreements, corporate transactions, and shareholder arrangements. Many of these cases involve sensitive issues triggered by geopolitical or regulatory changes, including sanctions and force majeure events. Clients value her ability to manage time-critical proceedings and deliver practical solutions that protect their interests. With a background spanning business and law and in-house experience in claims management, she brings a commercially focused approach to arbitration strategy. Also having a litigation background, she advises on enforcement and asset recovery to ensure that awards translate into tangible results. She is also experienced at handling parallel proceedings of all kinds and in all jurisdictions.
Anne-Florence Raducault

Anne-Florence Raducault

Anne-Florence Raducault est associée au sein du département Contentieux à Lyon.En tant qu'associée au sein du département Contentieux, Anne-Florence s'intéresse particulièrement aux risques civils et pénaux dans les entreprises industrielles, et en particulier aux questions liées à la prévention et à la gestion des responsabilités des sociétés et de leur management dans ces domaines.Elle conseille ses clients sur toute problématique en matière de droit commercial et de droit pénal, tant sur les aspects d'organisation interne (procédures-compliance, délégations de pouvoir/outils pratiques de gestion des risques) et de responsabilité des dirigeants qu'en matière de représentation en justice/gestion des précontentieux et contentieux.
Alexandra Schellino

Alexandra Schellino

Alexandra is a lawyer in the Intellectual Property team in our Paris office, where she assists French and international clients in litigation and non-contentious matters across the full spectrum of IP. She joined Bird & Bird in February 2022 as an associate. Prior to this, she gained her first experiences working in French and international law firms, in a world leading beauty group, as well as in the European Union Intellectual Property Office, in Alicante. These experiences enabled her to acquire a comprehensive and practical vision of intellectual property. Today, as part of the Paris team and in close collaboration with the various Bird & Bird offices, she assists her clients in a variety of sectors, mainly in trademark and patent law, as well as design and copyright. She has also developed an expertise in customs procedures relating to IP infringement. She is a member of APRAM.
Djazia Tiourtite

Djazia Tiourtite

Djazia is a partner in our Dispute Resolution Group in Paris, taking a pragmatic approach to litigation, combined with in-depth expertise in the French rules of civil procedure in all aspects of litigation (mediation, negotiation, trial and enforcement). She has been practising as a qualified litigator since 2008, mainly assisting international companies in their disputes. Her expertise covers a wide range of commercial and liability disputes (unfair competition, distribution, breach of contract, breach of established contractual relationships, IT and industrial project failure, technical intermediary liability, e-reputation, cyber security) for clients from the IT, media, energy and utilities, and communications sectors. Djazia has a deep understanding of all the latest trends in technology and communications and a real appetite for innovation, which gives her real added value in all technology and communications-related disputes. These skills enable him to provide clients with efficient and successful assistance in their disputes.
Edouard Treppoz

Edouard Treppoz

Edouard is Of Counsel at Bird & Bird in Paris, specialising in IP/IT law and international dispute resolution, dividing his time between the IP and dispute resolution teams. He is a full-time professor at the University Paris 1 Panthéon/ Sorbonne where he mainly teaches copyright law in its internal, European and international dimensions. During his PhD at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, he was a Fulbright visiting scholar at Columbia Law School. Edouard is the author of numerous articles dedicated to copyright law, private international law and European intellectual property law published in French and English, the co-editor of two books on those issues and the co-author of a casebook dedicated to 'International Copyright Law – US and EU perspectives' (ed. Edward Elgar Publisher with Jane C. Ginsburg as a co-author). His main areas of expertise are copyright law and the intersection of intellectual property and private international law/conflict of laws. He often speaks and presents at professional events here in France and internationally. He has been appointed as a member of the International Law Association's Committee, dedicated to intellectual property and private international law. In 2014, he was a visiting professor at Columbia University Law School where he taught international copyright law. Edouard is currently directing the Master 2 D2A in Economic Law and Audiovisual Management at the University of Paris 1 Panthéon/Sorbonne.
Sibylle Weiler

Sibylle Weiler

Sibylle est spécialiste expérimentée des énergies renouvelables avec une connaissance approfondie du marché français et allemand, elle conseille les développeurs, les investisseurs et les institutions financières sur tous les aspects de leurs projets liés à ce secteur, y compris leur financement Sibylle accompagne les projets dans le domaine de l'énergie dès leur conception, alliant les aspects juridiques aux enjeux stratégiques, fiscaux et économiques. Sibylle conseille les producteurs d'énergie sur tous les aspects du processus de développement et des contrats à mettre en place, y compris la commercialisation de l'énergie. Elle accompagne les investisseurs dans le cadre d'acquisitions de projets d'énergies renouvelables (parcs éoliens, énergie solaire, biogaz et biomasse) et hydrogène. Elle mandatée par les banques sur tous les aspects du financement des projets et établit la documentation juridique en français, allemand et anglais (contrats de prêt et sûretés, avis juridiques). Son expertise inclut également la rédaction de corporate PPAs, la préparation de rapports de due diligence et la négociation de contrats FIDIC et EPC ainsi que des contrats de gestion technique et commerciale. Sibylle travaille en étroite collaboration avec les autres spécialistes Energy & Utilities de Bird & Bird, ainsi qu'avec les équipes Corporate, Commercial, Banking & Finance de Bird & Bird en France, en Allemagne et à l'international. Sibylle anime le groupe international d'hydrogène au sein de Bird & Bird, est membre du Syndicat des Energies Renouvelables (SER) et de France Energie Eolienne (FEE) et été membre du comité de pilotage de l'Office Franco-Allemand des Energies Renouvelables (OFAENR). Elle est habilitée à exercer en tant qu'avocat en France et en tant que Rechtsanwältin en Allemagne.
Cen Zhang

Cen Zhang

Within our commercial and dispute resolution teams, Cen advises french and international clients on technology and copyright-related projects and disputes. As part of his transactional law practice, he is experienced in complex and innovative IT projects. He assists clients, ranging from start-ups to multinationals, from the inception of their projects (contractual arrangements, risk analysis) to the drafting and negotiation of IT agreements (outsourcing, SaaS, IaaS, PaaS, license terms). Cen also has a keen interest in media and entertainment law. In this respect, he advises clients in the video game and the audiovisual industry, notably on French and European copyright and regulatory matters. His work includes secondments in the digital and IT law department of various leading French companies, which furthered my understanding of my clients' practical needs and expectations. As such, he strives to provide business-oriented solutions. As part of his litigation law practice, he represents and assists French and international software publishers, IT providers, and customers, in disputes relating to IT projects or copyright infringement claims. In this respect, he has successfully represented clients in high-stake arbitrations and proceedings before French courts, notably relating to failures of ERP software or CRM software implementation projects. Prior to joining Bird & Bird in 2023, Cen worked as an attorney for five years in a top-tier French law firm, well recognised in IT law.