Addleshaw Goddard

Employment

Celia advises clients doing business in France on all aspects of French employment law.

Celia provides French and international clients with labour law advice related to corporate reorganizations and downsizing, plant closures or redeployment of industrial sites, business outsourcing, mergers and acquisitions. She also represents her clients before national courts (labour, civil, appeal courts) in complex litigations against employee representative bodies, unions, labour administration, and employees.

Her activity is mainly focused on labour issues arising out of corporate transactions (such as mergers & acquisitions, joint ventures, LBOs), for listed and non-listed companies.

Counsel, Employment Law – Addleshaw Goddard (2023-To present) Associate, Employment Law – Latham & Watkins (Paris) (2019-2023) Associate, Employment Law – Gowling WLC (Paris) [before named Wragge Lawrence Graham] (2015-2019) Associate, Employment Law – Herbert Smith Freehills (Paris) (2015) Associate, Employment Law – August & Debouzy (Paris) (2013-2015) Trainee, Employment Law department – Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom (Paris) (2013) Trainee, Commercial Litigation and IP/IT departments – Latham & Watkins (Paris) (2012)

French (native) - Spanish (native) - English (fluent)

McGill University, Montréal - LL.M, Comparative Law, 2011-2012 University Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris I - Master 2, Private International Law and International Trade, 2010-2011 University Panthéon-Sorbonne Paris I and Complutense in Madrid, Double degree in French and Spanish Law, 2006-2010