Senior Lawyer - Founder

• Apr 2020 - Present

Senior Lawyer - Co-founder

• Jul 2016 - Apr 2020

INWEST AVOCATS is a French business law law office (http://inwest-avocats.com/) located in Guadeloupe. It comes from Frédéric FANFANT (SELARL EXCELEGIS) and Christelle REYNO joining together to create a new entity an « Association d’Avocats à Responsabilité Professionnelle Indépendante (AARPI) » (Independent Professional Liability Lawyers Partnership).The Law Office principally works for a clientele made of businesses, institutionals and associations. It is composed of a performing and reactive team. Aeras of practice : Corporate Law, Employement law, Economic Law, Commercial Law, ICT Law, Litterary and Artistic Property, Industrial and Commercial Property, Public Contracts, Administrative Litigation, Real Estate Law, Enforcement ProceduresLanguages : French, English, Spanish,The partners’ experience and their areas of practice allow them managing complex case winch sometimes imply several practice law areas and foreign laws. INWEST AVOCATS offers an enlarged competency with respect to alternative dispute resolution. The Law office develops alternative means such as arbitration, mediation, conciliation, negotiation, collaborative law, allowing fast and extra judiciary solutions.

Lawyer

• Jan 2016 - Jun 2016

Lawyer

• Jan 2014 - Dec 2015

Business LawI primarily work in the field of litigation and contracts, for clients acting in the field of IT and telecoms Business LawI primarily work in the field of litigation and contracts, for clients acting in the field of IT and telecoms

Senior Inhouse Lawyer

• Dec 2010 - Dec 2013

* Contract/Consulting : - Negotiation, Drafting and Validation of purchase contracts (services, "tierce maintenance applicative", licenses), inter-operators agreement (Roaming, Access, Interconnection, portability), partnership - Advices to operational teams with respect to telecommunication, contracts, competition law, marketing- Trainings* Marketing activities- Validation of marketing requirements, advertising and any communication means issued by the Marketing department (TV adv, PLV, internet, leaflet, etc) fixe/mobile/internet OBS, and commercial proposals - Awareness Actions* Pre-litigation/Litigation (business law, social, criminal): - Customer relationship mobile/fixe/internet Enterprise- Risk analysis - Preparing litigation files for the attorneys at law (facts and evidences) - Remarks/corrections and validation of the submissions and briefs- Managing and coordinating the relationships with the attorneys at law

General Secretary and Operational Manager

• Mar 2010 - Jan 2012

- Active involvement in drafting any documents or internal or external communication means (requirements for the internet site, sponsoring request, membership charter, meeting minutes, information letter, etc) - Daily management of the club (implementation of management and steering tools, databases, definition and sharing out of tasks, progress follow-up, reminders, etc)- Internal and External events organisation (drafting the invitations, planning settlement and follow-up, logistic support, etc)

Contract Manager

• Nov 2008 - Nov 2010

(Business Unit Clearing & Settlement)* Management of the Framework Agreement with LCH.Clearnet SA (Clearing House) : - Contract support to the pre-sales and project teams - Legal negotiation of the contract, its addendums and drafting - Deliverables management / Risk management / IPR management - Validation of commercial proposals - Preparation and attendance to the meetings and committees such as provided for in the governance model of the contract (SLA Committee, Financial Committee, Coordination Committee, Security Committee, Office Automation Committee), drafting of the minutes or check of the conformity of the minutes with the discussions - Customer relationship (contract manager, lawyers, sales team, IT, etc) - Dispute management* Support to the Project Management on the client IT transformation program : - Drafting of the Statement of Work or any contractual documents linked to the project- Deliverables management- Correspondence management- Contractual interpretation- Support to the quality department - Preparation, attendance and minutes of the Steering Committee and the Governance Committee* Management of the reply to the requests for proposal of the Business Unit- Lead in answering the requests for proposal- In charge of the contractual and financial chapters of the proposal- Management of the coherence of the document- Contractual negotiation and drafting of the provisions of the contract

Contract Manager

• Aug 2007 - Oct 2008

In charge of contractual and financial aspects of IT and Consulting projects. Negotiating and Drafting Contracts. Contractual Interpretation. Protecting the margin of the projects (including follow-up of receivables). Risk Management in pre-sales and post-sales. Attendance to project committees. Training on risk and contractual aspects delivered to the operational teams. Proactive issue/dispute resolution. Establishing processes to effect compliance and management. Identify and flex commercial levers.OG Lead (Resources); Manager : HR management, career follow-up, staffing, reporting, etc.

Lawyer

• Jan 2001 - Aug 2007

Counsel for international clientele in contractual practice, pre-contentious, corporate law, civil proceedings, international arbitration, and labour law; Judiciary and Arbitral Litigation : .Contentious proceedings before State courts : meeting with management and legal department of customer companies, summons, briefs, credit declarations, statements to expert, pleading briefs, hearings.International arbitration proceedings : meeting with client, searching, drafting of request for arbitration, statement of claim or statement of defence, exequatur action, action for cancellation of arbitral awards…; interventions in international arbitration proceedings (general organisation of the proceedings, contacts with the companies party to the cases, hearings, deliberation meetingsMiscellaneous activities : Framework of articles to be issued in legal journals ; Watching over the legal news and reports ; Translation of legal documentation;

Trilingual Legal Assistant

• Aug 1994 - Dec 1999

Support to the attorneys of the firm in managing and analysing the cases Support to the attorneys of the firm in managing and analysing the cases