Signature Litigation AARPI

Commercial Litigation, Product Liability Litigation, Class Actions

Sylvie is a Founding Partner of Signature Litigation’s Paris office. She specialises in product liability, toxic tort, ESG and group litigation disputes.

With almost 20 years’ experience, Sylvie represents manufacturers doing business in France in complex product-related disputes, including product liability, industrial risk, product safety, toxic tort, mass litigation/class actions, regulatory compliance and environment/climate change matters.

Sylvie represents a variety of globally recognised manufacturers from industries including automotive, electronics, life sciences, cosmetics, new technologies, steel, energy, food, toys and consumer goods. She manages one of the largest product litigation teams in the French market.

She is involved in several high-profile French industrial disaster cases, including large-scale fires, planned obsolescence allegations, use of conflict minerals, ‘dieselgate’, maritime engine accidents, marketplace liability and COVID-19 vaccine cases.

She defends clients against claims from consumers, NGOs, business partners and competitors, and also handles investigations by French market surveillance authorities such as the DGCCRF, ANFR and ANSM. She has also coordinated product safety corrective measures across the European Union.

Sylvie also assists her manufacturing clients with commercial litigation (e.g., sudden termination of contracts, unfair competition, significant imbalance cases) and the review of contracts and Terms & Conditions.

Sylvie is a leading defence counsel in France for manufacturers facing mass toxic tort claims and consumer group actions. Her work in this area began with asbestos-exposure claims, where she established rare, company-favourable case law. Some of these cases are cited in the French Civil and Social Security Codes due to the significant legal precedents they set. Her practice now includes cases involving various chemical and hazardous substances, as well as claims based on anxiety over developing future diseases.

Sylvie is a go-to lawyer for class actions in France. She has conducted a study for a client on class action systems in over one hundred jurisdictions and is one of the few defence counsel invited to participate in the Cambridge Forum’s working group on class actions in the EU.

Sylvie is admitted as an Avocat à la Cour in France and a Solicitor in England & Wales.

Trained, Hogan Lovells Paris, 2007; Counsel, Hogan Lovells Paris, 2008 to 2018; Co-founding Partner Signature Litigation 2019.

English and French.

Member of the Board of Directors, International Association of Defense Counsel (IADC);  Member, International Consumer Product Health and Safety Organization (ICPHSO).

Université Panthéon-Assas Paris 2; Trinity College Dublin; The London School of Economics and Political Science; ESSEC Business School Paris.