Signature Litigation AARPI

Commercial Litigation, Product Liability Litigation, Class Actions

After 10 years practicing in a major international law firm, Sylvie became one of the founding partners of the Paris office of Signature Litigation and has headed its products litigation practice since 2019.

Sylvie has almost 20 years of experience in all ranges of product-related litigation: commercial litigation, product liability, product safety, product life-cycle investigations, ESG & climate change litigation.

She is involved in some of the largest industrial accident cases that happened in France and regularly assists clients in the scope of investigations launched by the French or EU regulators. As such, she works on cases with innovative legal issues being debated: planned obsolescence, dieselgate, greenwashing, Covid-19 vaccine cases, PFAS liability, anxiety damage in toxic tort cases, consumer mass litigation, use of alleged war minerals, batteries' technology cases and marketplaces' legal status.

She is further known in the French market as a leading toxic tort / mass litigation lawyer.

She represents a variety of globally recognised manufacturers from industries such as automotive, electronic products, life sciences, cosmetics, new technologies/marketplaces, steel, energy, food, toys, consumer goods, etc.

Sylvie is both 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.