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Alexandre Bailly

Alexandre is a partner in the firm's litigation practice who represents multinational and French clients in international business disputes, with a particular focus on complex business matters. Working closely with others on the Morgan Lewis team, he has litigated and arbitrated matters involving the industrial risks sector, commercial contracts, banking, bankruptcy, construction, and portfolio management. His clients include companies in the automotive, aerospace, construction, communications, technology, and consumer products fields, as well as banks, financial asset managers, and brokers. For more information, view Alexandre's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/abailly

Tristan Bonneau

Tristan Bonneau focuses on structuring private debt, infrastructure, and private equity funds. He also advises management companies on financial regulations; approvals; marketing; environmental, social, and governance (ESG) integration; and portfolio investments and divestments. Tristan speaks French and English. For more information, view Tristan's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/tristanbonneau

Ophélie Boulos

Ophélie Boulos advises and represents real estate companies, architects, developers, and other professionals in real estate matters. She advises and litigates in matters involving construction law, insurance law, and commercial leases. For more information, view Ophélie's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/ophelieboulos

Olivier Chambord

Olivier is a partner in the firm's energy transactions team who represents a variety of international energy clients in project development, mergers, acquisitions, and disposals in Europe and Africa. Olivier advises oil and gas and petrochemicals companies in projects, acquisitions, and disposals involving upstream, midstream, and downstream oil and gas assets and infrastructure. He also advises on petroleum licensing and concessions, permitting issues, petroleum audits, crude oil and refined products sale and purchase agreements, lifting agreements, unitization agreements, refinery joint ventures, and the development of domestic and international pipeline infrastructure. For more information, view Olivier's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/ochambord

Danièle Darmon

Danièle Darmon advises clients on the acquisition, development, and leasing of commercial properties including office, hotel, retail, industrial, and warehouse assets. She has in-depth knowledge of the warehouse industry and related environmental issues (e.g., classified installations for the protection of the environment). Danièle is fluent in French and English. For more information, view Danièle's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/danieledarmon

Charles Dauthier

Charles is an associate in the firm's labour and employment practice who advises French and international clients on both labour and employment matters, as well as data privacy and cybersecurity. He advises clients on executive terminations, collective terminations and other employment matters, as well as data privacy issues that surface in mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and outsourcing, and other types of reorganization. He counsels clients on employment matters attendant in employee benefits and employee representation matters. Charles has experience working with clients to prepare for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and managing employee misconduct investigations. For more information, view Charles' biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/cdauthier

Laetitia De Pelet

Laetitia is an associate who has a dual practice spanning litigation and arbitration as well as labour and employment. She advises companies facing business and corporate disputes, criminal allegations, and on a range of contentious and non-contentious employment matters. Additionally, She counsels on data privacy and cybersecurity issues. For more information, view Laetitia's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/laetitiadepelet

Hubert de Vauplane

Hubert de Vauplane is in charge of Fintech practice in the Paris office with partner Gilles Saint Marc, offering a global and integrated vision on regulatory and transactional structuring and operations matters. Hubert advises on EU and French laws on financial services, banking regulation, e-money payment services, virtual assets regulation, blockchain legal issues. Hubert advises mainly FinTech, VASP, Funds, corporates and financial institution. Hubert is also professor at the Paris Institute for Political Sciences (IEP Paris), teaching banking law and blockchain legal issues.

Renaud Dubois

Renaud Dubois advises private and semipublic institutional operators, as well as major players in the construction industry, on real estate, construction law, and industrial risk. He speaks French and English. For more information, view Renaud's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/renauddubois

Anne Gaustad-Hanken

Anne Gaustad-Hanken advises multinational public and private corporations and senior executives on cross-border investigations, sanctions, export controls, and business and human rights matters. She leads internal investigations and enterprise-wide risk assessments, including investigations and compliance reviews conducted in coordination with authorities such as the US Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, French regulatory and enforcement authorities, Norway’s Økokrim, and Multilateral Development Banks. Her work spans anti-corruption, EU and US economic sanctions and export controls, anti–money laundering, and corporate governance frameworks. Anne also designs, implements, and validates global compliance programs and represents clients in disputes arising from regulatory investigations and cross-border activity. For more information, view Anne's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/annegaustadhanken

Xavier Haranger

Xavier Haranger is part of a litigation team that provides advice to clients facing business and corporate disputes, corporate investigations and criminal allegations, and international arbitration. Xavier also regularly handles national and international contract law issues. For more information, view Xavier's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/xharanger

Marie-Agnès Nicolas

Marie-Agnès Nicolas advises multinational companies and financial institutions on complex investigations, enforcement matters, and high-stakes litigation. She has extensive experience in anti-corruption, economic sanctions and export controls, business and human rights, anti-money laundering, as well as financial regulatory matters spanning cross-border compliance counseling, contentious proceedings, and crisis management. Marie-Agnès assists companies with compliance programs, risk assessments, internal investigations, and compliance-related due diligence. She advises on matters involving French, US, and international regulatory and enforcement authorities, including compliance with French and international anti-corruption frameworks, international sanctions, and financial regulatory issues. For more information, view Marie-Agnès' biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/marieagnesnicolas

Sébastien Pontillo

Sébastien advises private equity funds and investors on leveraged buyouts, growth capital transactions, and venture capital transactions in both domestic and international markets, as well as on complex international mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, and joint ventures. He speaks French and English. For more information, view Sébastien's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/sebastienpontillo

Mathieu Rossignol

Mathieu Rossignol counsels multinational companies on compliance, global investigations, and regulatory enforcement matters, with particular focus on anti-corruption, governance, economic sanctions, and business and human rights. He advises on the application of key international frameworks, including France’s Sapin II Law, the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, and the UK Bribery Act. He leads internal investigations, risk assessments, and compliance reviews involving regulatory and enforcement authorities, such as the US Department of Justice, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the French Anti-Corruption Agency.

Gilles Saint Marc

Gilles Saint Marc advises corporates, asset managers, and investors across a wide range of alternative financing, offering a global and integrated vision on regulatory, tax, and transactional matters. Gilles is one of the pioneers of French securitization since 1988 with a focus on Pan-European trade receivables, mortgage-backed securities, and synthetic and EU securitization regulations. Gilles also advises on the structuring, formation, fundraising, and investment of French and Luxembourg funds across a wide range of asset classes, including private debt, private equity, infrastructure, funds of funds, continuation funds, and secondaries (GP-led or LP-led). He also advises more than 20 fintech companies. Gilles speaks French and English and is fluent in German. For more information, view Gilles' biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/gilliessaintmarc.

Sabine Smith-Vidal

Sabine is a partner in the firm's Paris office who advises French and international companies on labour and employment issues associated with cross-border transactions, mergers, acquisitions, and corporate restructurings. Working closely with her clients, Sabine assists with the establishment of pension plans, employee savings plans, and social plans. She advises corporations on multijurisdictional employment issues, including trade union law, outsourcing, and individual and collective dismissals. In addition, Sabine provides guidance and legal representation in labour dispute litigation. Sabine is the managing partner of Morgan Lewis’s Paris office. For more information, view Sabine’s biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/ssmithvidal

Allison Soilihi

Allison is a partner in the firm's energy transactions practice. Representing oil and gas companies, she advises on issues involving acquisitions of oil blocks, hydrocarbon assets, and upstream, midstream, and downstream assets. Allison drafts and negotiates petroleum agreements, including those that involve production sharing, joint operating, and hydrocarbons transportation and supply. She also counsels on establishment conventions, joint ventures, and sale and purchase agreements of petroleum assets. For more information, view Allison's biography at www.morganlewis.com/bios/asoilihi.

Clément Vandevooghel

Clément Vandevooghel advises financial institutions, asset managers, servicers, corporates, private equity funds, and insurance and reinsurance companies on a wide range of financing transactions, including structured finance, securitization, asset-backed financings, derivatives and debt capital markets matters, in domestic and international markets. He also regularly acts for purchasers and sellers of loan portfolios. For more information, view Clément's biography at morganlewis.com/bios/clementvandevooghel.

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