Paris, July 5, 2024 – UGGC Avocats is delighted to announce the arrival of two new partners to its team: Xavier Marchand and Alison Leroy. Their respective expertise in the fields of industrial risks and life sciences will strengthen and diversify the firm’s skills.

Xavier Marchand

Before joining UGGC Avocats, Xavier Marchand founded Carakters in 2009, a firm specializing in industrial risks. He pursued this activity at Franklin in 2020, then at Bersay in 2023, where he opened the Insurance and Industrial Risks departments.

With over 25 years’ experience in the industry, Xavier Marchand is a recognized player in industrial risk management and insurance. He defends the interests of manufacturers and service providers in the face of critical situations such as explosions, fires, cyber attacks or natural disasters. He also assists them in defining and deploying their risk management policies, and in concluding their insurance programs.

Xavier Marchand has technical and economic expertise in a wide range of sectors, including logistics construction, heavy industry (steel, petrochemicals, glass), food processing and renewable energies. He is vice-president of Biogaz Vallée, an active member of the ATEE Biogas Club, and participates in the work of several commissions and professional associations.

In joining UGGC Avocats, Xavier Marchand brings an enriched global vision of industrial project support, combining legal and organizational solutions with risk management and insurance programs.

Alison Leroy

Before joining UGGC Avocats, Alison Leroy worked for 7 years at Carakters, then at Franklin from 2020, and recently at Bersay, where she opened the “Life Sciences, Biotech and Pharma R&D” department.

Alison Leroy has developed solid expertise in preventive risk management and the support of industrial and real estate projects, particularly in the pharmaceutical sector. She has advised pharmaceutical laboratories, CROs, biotechs, healthcare establishments and companies in the perfumery-cosmetics and agri-food sectors.

Her experience covers regulatory affairs, site and production unit management, and the negotiation and management of R&D contracts. Among her achievements, she assisted a French pharmaceutical laboratory, in partnership with an American company, in the creation of a unique incubator in Europe made up of shared laboratories, and supported senior residences in innovative projects.

Alison Leroy now wishes to concentrate on innovation and industrialization projects, aimed at bringing new products, services and technologies to market in a variety of fields including healthcare, pharmaceuticals, nutraceuticals, perfumery-cosmetics and agri-food.

“UGGC is particularly delighted to welcome Xavier and Allison to the firm, as they are one of the best teams in the industry in a key sector: insurance and industrial risk.

It was strategic for the firm to recruit specialists of a very high technical level in these major issues for many of our industrial clients” confirms Charles-Emmanuel Prieur.