- Assistance with human resources management (employment contracts, remuneration, mobility, staff representation, redundancies)
- Advice on all aspects of employment law relating to mergers and acquisitions, restructuring and outsourcing
- Preventive audits
- Setting up incentive, profit-sharing and savings plans (stock options, FCPE, PEE, share purchase or subscription plans)
- Reorganisation of working hours
François VERGNE
François Vergne assists and advises the general management, legal department and human resources department of French and international groups on their employment issues in France and the European Union. He advises on complex transactions, including restructuring and outsourcing operations, redundancy plans, negotiation of collective statutes, setting up company pension schemes or employee savings plans, remuneration and the status of managers.
He holds a Master’s degree in Public Law from the University of Paris II, a postgraduate diploma (DEA) in English and American business law from the University of Paris I and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) from the University of Pennsylvania Law School (Fulbright Foundation scholarship). He is also a graduate of the Institut d’Études Politiques de Paris (Public Service Section).
He is a founding member of AVOSIAL and a member of the American Bar Association and the International Bar Association. He is regularly listed as one of France’s leading employment and labour lawyers in the major international guides (Chambers Global, Legal 500, Who’s Who Legal).
Civil and criminal litigation relating to employment law
- Lecturer at the IEP in Paris (1991-2001)
- Regular speaker at conferences and seminars on employment law
- Director and Vice-President of the Association des Anciens Sciences-Po (1994-2004)
- Founding member of AVOSIAL
- Member of the American Bar Association and the International Bar Association
- Partner Gide Loyrette Nouel 2013 – 2022
- Morgan Lewis & Bockius, participated in the opening of the Paris office as a partner (2004)
- Partner at De Pardieu, Brocas, Maffei from 1999 to 2004
- Associate then partner at Siméon Moquet Borde, then Moquet Borde & Associés from 1985 to 1999 (1985)
- Admitted to the Paris Bar (1987)
- Master’s degree in Public Law, University of Paris II (1980)
- Graduate of the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris (Public Service Section) (1980)
- Postgraduate degree (DEA) in English and American business law, University of Paris I (1982)
- Master of Laws (LL.M.), University of Pennsylvania Law School – Fulbright Foundation scholarship (1984)
French and English