Simmons & Simmons

Claire has a wide range of expertise, assisting clients on all French employment law matters, contentious and non-contentious, and specialising in the Technology, Media & Telecom (TMT) and Life Sciences (LS) sectors. She regularly advises IT and biotech companies, as well as laboratories. Clients also benefit from her in-depth expertise on a recent French law provision on gender pay gap.

Claire provides advice to French and international employers on collective relationships with staff representative institutions by negotiating collective agreements (gender equality, working time, remote work), as well as negotiating settlement agreements, implementing bonus schemes and providing strategical advice on termination of key managers. She also works on all employment aspects of corporate deals and represents companies in disputes with their employees. Claire regularly assists with mediations, conducts internal investigations for her clients (discrimination and harassment) and defends against whistleblowing claims.

Claire has been a French qualified lawyer since 1999, specialised in employment law. She joined Simmons & Simmons in 2000.

In addition to her bar certification, Claire has a master’s degree in private law (specialising in private business law) from Paris II University and a postgraduate degree in business law from the University of Paris X.