Attorney before the Paris Bar since 1995, expert in IT - IP

Founding Partner of Lawways in 2006

For more than 25 years, Gilles has developed a specific and specialized expertise, in the sector of new technologies and their development, and more particularly in software, ownership of IP, protection of personal data and IT contract’s. Before creating Lawways in early 2006, he worked with international law firms – August & Debouzy, Gide Loyrette Nouel – but also in the legal departments of global industrial and financial groups.

His career for several years at the heart of the business, notably at General Electric (GE) in the Medical Systems and Finance activities, has allowed him to acquire a concrete understanding of the needs of companies and an economic vision of legal issues, and to bring real added value to the solutions he offers to the clients of the firm.

Gilles is Vice-President of Cyberlex “French association of Law and New Technologies”

President of the Tech and M&A Committee of ITechLaw (a US non-profit organization - “International Technology Law Association”).

Ranked in Chambers and Partners 2023 as recognized practitioner in TMT Information Technology

AREAS OF LEGAL EXPERTISE

• Intellectual property

• IT contracts

• Open Source

• Artificial intelligence

• Personal data

• Business secrecy

• Web3

DIPLOMAS

• Winner of the contest General in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1990)

• DEA in Business Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1992)

• DESS in Industrial Property Law (Panthéon Assas University, Paris II – 1994)

• US Business Law, Communication (UCLA – 2002)

• Certificate of Aptitude for the Profession of Lawyer (EFB – 1994)

LANGUAGES

French and English