About the firm

Cassiopée Avocats makes a point of including a strategic dimension in its response to every one of your issues, to give clients the best legal advice in all circumstances. Our firm works in the fields of business and labour law in France and involving foreign companies.

CHRISTINE BONNEFOY

Christine Bonnefoy

Partner, Business lawyer

Christine is our specialist in business law. Her early years as a lawyer were spent in medium‑sized law firms before she joined HSD Ernst & Young, now EY, where her work covered all areas of business law. She advised and assisted clients in a broad range of operations including company formations and takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, and new establishments. She monitored clients’ legal affairs in the fields of company law, commercial and economic law, finance and banking law.

In 2006 Christine decided to transpose the values of rigour and excellence from this major business law firm to her own, smaller‑scale law firm with a more individual touch. With dedication and commitment, she made personal contact with clients the foundation for tailored services generating real added value, offering thorough work, availability and a strongly ethical approach.

Keen to share her knowledge, Christine has taught business and company law at university technology institutes and through the national adult training body AFPA for people interested in setting up or taking over a businesses, and company law at top French higher education institute CNAM. She presently teaches regular courses for entrepreneurs through French Chambers of Commerce and Industry.

Christine Bonnefoy takes a strategic view: setting out a clear path and framework to reach the desired objectives is the essential ingredient of an effective business law strategy. Every client of Cassiopée Avocats benefits daily from the expertise she has accumulated throughout her career.

+33 (0)1 47 64 70 41 / +33 (0)6 35 29 40 64
christine.bonnefoy@cassiopee-avocats.fr
88, rue Laugier - 75017 Paris

Virginie

Virginie Glorieux‑Kergall

Partner, Labour/Social security lawyer

Virginie is our specialist in labour and social security law, and also has significant experience in tax litigation. These areas of expertise have been the cornerstones of her work as a lawyer for 25 years.

Virginie previously worked for various well‑known law firms: first as a trainee, then as a qualified lawyer at Gide Loyrette Nouel, Ginestié et Paley Vincent and Cabinet Conseils Fiscaux Réunis 2CFR (a law firm headed by former tax inspectors). During her time at these firms she gained expertise in legal advice and litigation in labour and social security law, and in tax law.

After obtaining the demanding DJCE (a qualification as corporate legal adviser) from Rennes University, Virginie set up her own law firm in 1998 and has concentrated since then on her two favourite fields of expertise: labour and social security law and tax litigation.

Virginie advises her clientele, which comprises legal entities, individuals, and licensed professionals, on compliance with their professional obligations relating to their corporate office, employment contract or public‑sector employee status, assisting them in all circumstances before industrial tribunals and general and administrative courts. She also assists them in relations with the tax administration and social security organizations when inspections take place, and before the administrative and general courts.

Virginie also develops training modules in labour law and social security litigation that she uses when conducting courses for managers of large and medium‑sized companies, chartered accountants and fellow lawyers.

+33 (0)1 47 86 30 97 / +33 (0)6 08 53 89 04
virginie.kergall@cassiopee-avocats.fr
32, rue Le Peletier - 75009 Paris

Sophie Cassiope

Sophie Martinet

Partner, Labour lawyer

Sophie is the firm’s specialist in labour and social security law. She started out at HSD Ernst & Young now EY, in 1990, where she worked on a wide range of issues, providing advice to a clientele consisting mainly of management executives from English‑speaking companies, helping them to plan against potential liability under labour law and defending them in litigations.

Entrepreneurial ambitions led Sophie to co‑found Cassiopée Avocats in 2006 The overriding aim of this move was to serve the needs of French and foreign clients, taking a service‑oriented approach to offer them decision‑making support and accompany them through both successful and difficult times.

Sophie provides legal advice and litigation services before the industrial tribunals, general courts and courts of appeal. Her primary fields are employment contract drafting, monitoring and termination, social security (URSSAF) inspections, employee savings plans and individual and collective labour relations.

With her impeccable English, Sophie has developed particular expertise with English‑speaking clients. She advises and defends a large number of companies, non‑profit organizations and individual employees.

Sophie holds a Master of Business Administration (MBA) from the University of South Florida, a DEA postgraduate qualification in Anglo‑American business law from the University of Paris I (Sorbonne), a Masters degree in business and tax law from the University of Paris II (Assas) and a degree from top French translation and interpretation school ISIT. She has taught labour law in French engineering schools and at the Scientific University of Lille.

Sophie is also a judge in the Bobigny industrial tribunal just outside Paris.

+33 (0)1 48 74 52 61 / +33 (0)6 08 74 70 41
sophie.martinet@cassiopee-avocats.fr
73, bd de Clichy - 75009 Paris

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Cassiopée Avocats
88 rue Laugier
75017 - Paris

+33 1 47 64 70 41