Anne-Marie Pecoraro
With 25 years of experience serving clients of all sizes and types (corporate groups, multinationals, start-ups, associations, trade unions, foundations, artists, fashion designers, production companies, etc.).
Anne-Marie Pecoraro has been advising and litigating on all legal aspects of intellectual property, trademarks, new technologies and the exploitation of personal data, in a wide range of sectors including industry, entertainment, media, fashion, luxury goods, licensing, audiovisual, entertainment and music.
She also advises prestigious French and international clients, particularly in the United States, Europe (Paris, Milan, Rome, Brussels) and Asia (China, Hong Kong, Singapore). Furthermore, throughout her experience, Anne-Marie Pecoraro has also developed cross-disciplinary skills, particularly in the strategic support of communication programs.
Clémence Lemétais d’Ormesson,
With 15 years of experience, Clémence Lemétais d’Ormesson, partner at UGGC Avocats, is involved in many commercial litigations and arbitrations, in France and abroad.
Clémence has a leading expertise in commercial litigation to French and international clients operating in a wide range of sectors. She is specialized in disputes relating to:
- the performance or termination of commercial contracts,
- economic law,
- product liability and industrial claims,
- consumer law,
- shareholders conflicts (of listed and unlisted companies),
- pre- or post-acquisition disputes: disputes relating to the compulsory execution of SPA, disputes relating to the setting of transfer prices, implementation of asset and liability guarantee agreements, etc.,
- the liability and dismissal of managers.
Clémence represents and assists clients, mainly companies or managers, in domestic and international arbitration proceedings and in annulment proceedings against awards.
Clémence also acts as an arbitrator in intern and international commercial arbitration proceedings in these same areas. She has assisted clients in numerous commercial arbitrations and investments in favour of or against sovereign states, private companies, foreign public entities, listed companies and individuals.
MEMBERSHIPS
- Head of the European section of the Interlaw arbitration practice
- Member of the “Association Française d’Arbitrage” (AFA).
- Member of the “Comité Français de l’Arbitrage” (CFA) and CFA 40.
Corinne Khayat
Corinne Khayat has been a partner of UGGC Avocats since 2000, where she co-heads the IP-IT department.
Corinne regularly represents her clients before the courts and advises in all areas of French and EU Intellectual Property and Information Technologies law. She has experience in complex trademark and copyright litigation.
Corinne also regularly advises in distribution law and assists clients in setting-up distribution networks.
She assists French and foreign clients, mostly large and medium size companies and public bodies, active in various sectors such as food, retail, services, luxury (cosmetics, perfumes) and building materials industries. She also handles cases as a correspondent for many foreign law firms.
She has been a professor of European Union competition law at the Institut Catholique and a lecturer in competition law at the University Paris I, Pantheon Sorbonne. She is a member of APDC (Association of the Practitioners of Competition Law) and a regular speaker at the competition law commission of the UIA (International Union of Lawyers).
Corinne Khayat is ranked Best Lawyer 2021 for her expertise in Competition Law.
Marine Simonnot
Member of the UGGC Avocats’ Restructuring team for more than 15 years, Marine Simonnot joined the firm as a trainee lawyer before becoming an associate, consultant and then partner in 2020.
She advises clients on all aspects of insolvency law, from the prevention of difficulties to their treatment in the context of collective proceedings and distress situations, both as counsel and in litigation.
She acts for French and foreign clients thanks to her involvement in international associations and in the international network of UGGC.
ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS AND OTHER QUALIFICATIONS:
- President of the Insolvency Commission of AIJA (International Association of Young Lawyers) for a 3-year period.
- Member of the WIR (Woman In Restructuring) association.
The Firm
UGGC Avocats is an independent and international French law firm covering 4 geographical areas across Europe, Asia-Pacific, South America and Africa. Driven by an innovative vision of legal expertise and at the heart of the evolutions of our world, 170 lawyers, including 33 partners in Paris, advise private and public actors in France and abroad. The firm covers all areas of law and gathers complementarity teams according to the needs of its clients. UGGC Avocats guarantees a cross-functional approach and unfailing availability. With a constant monitoring of the legal, economic and strategic dimensions, UGGC Avocats acts as a true leading performance and innovation driver.
