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Our mission
We have long-standing experience in fundraising, corporate-M&A transactions and private debt structuring and restructuring. We are involved in a wide range of market transactions that raise technical and strategic regulatory issues, on both the equity and debt sides, involving long and short positions.
We combine our technical expertise in business law with an in-depth understanding of the rule of law from an economic point of view, the financial and accounting aspects of our cases and the institutional and political issues at stake. This holistic approach allows us, beyond our legal expertise, to put forth holistic strategies leading to the improvement of existing practices and interpretation of the law, and TO understand the full context and issues at stake in the cases we handle.
We share our clients’ convictions. Working with them both means defending their interests to the best of our ability and giving a sense to our profession.
Sophie Vermeille
Partner
Paul Oudin
Associate
Léa Desurmont
AssociateCurriculum vitae and career path
Sophie has worked for over ten years for several international law firms, including DLA Piper, Freshfields, Weil Gotshal & Manges and Clifford Chance.
She has intervened on a wide variety of cases involving corporate, financial, insolvency and governance law.
She has also directed and worked on several research projects in legal economics and is regularly consulted by public authorities on reform projects relating to the areas of the law she practices.
Sophie holds an LL.M. in Business Law from King’s College London and a Magistère Juriste d’Affaires from the University Paris II-Panthéon Assas.
Parallel activities
- Founder of the Droit & Croissance (Rules for Growth) Institute
- Speaker at public institutions
- Teacher
Contact details
- sophie@vermeille-avocats.com
- +33 (0) 6 71 72 82 91
- Follow me on LinkedIn
- Speaks English & French
Curriculum vitae and career path
Paul has been an Attorney at Vermeille & Co since 2020. He works on all sorts of cases handled by the firm, with a main focus on cases involving listed companies. He is writing at the same time a thesis on the European regulation of insider trading at the University. He has been a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School (New York), Sapienza Università (Rome) and the Max-Planck-Institut (Hamburg).
Paul works on several research projects in various fields relevant to his work as a lawyer, at the crossroads of law, microeconomics, quantitative finance, and psychology.
He holds an MSc in Law and Finance from the University of Oxford and a Magistère Juriste d’Affaires from the University of Paris II-Panthéon Assas.
Parallel activities
- PhD student at Oxford University
- Member of the Steering Committee of Droit & Croissance
- Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute
- Associate Editor of the Oxford Business Law Blog
Contact details
- paul.oudin@vermeille-avocats.com
- Follow me on LinkedIn
- Speaks English & French
Curriculum vitae and career path
Prior to joining Vermeille & Co, Léa worked in the corporate and M&A departments of international law firms such as Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy in Paris, Paul Weiss in London and Clifford Chance in Casablanca. Léa has also worked in the legal department of Lazard in Paris and the compliance department of CACIB in London.
Léa holds a Magistère Juriste d’Affaire from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, as well as a Diplôme de Juriste Conseil d’Entrepreise (DJCE). She also holds a certificate in banking and financial law from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas.
Contact details
- lea.desurmont@vermeille-avocats.com
- Follow me on LinkedIn
- Speaks English & French
Curriculum vitae and career path
Sophie has worked for over ten years for several international law firms, including DLA Piper, Freshfields, Weil Gotshal & Manges and Clifford Chance.
She has intervened on a wide variety of cases involving corporate, financial, insolvency and governance law.
She has also directed and worked on several research projects in legal economics and is regularly consulted by public authorities on reform projects relating to the areas of the law she practices.
Sophie holds an LL.M. in Business Law from King’s College London and a Magistère Juriste d’Affaires from the University Paris II-Panthéon Assas.
Parallel activities
- Founder of the Droit & Croissance (Rules for Growth) Institute
- Speaker at public institutions
- Teacher
Contact details
- sophie@vermeille-avocats.com
- +33 (0) 6 71 72 82 91
- Follow me on LinkedIn
- Speaks English & French
Curriculum vitae and career path
Paul has been an Attorney at Vermeille & Co since 2020. He works on all sorts of cases handled by the firm, with a main focus on cases involving listed companies. He is writing at the same time a thesis on the European regulation of insider trading at the University. He has been a visiting scholar at Columbia Law School (New York), Sapienza Università (Rome) and the Max-Planck-Institut (Hamburg).
Paul works on several research projects in various fields relevant to his work as a lawyer, at the crossroads of law, microeconomics, quantitative finance, and psychology.
He holds an MSc in Law and Finance from the University of Oxford and a Magistère Juriste d’Affaires from the University of Paris II-Panthéon Assas.
Parallel activities
- PhD student at Oxford University
- Member of the Steering Committee of Droit & Croissance
- Member of the European Corporate Governance Institute
- Associate Editor of the Oxford Business Law Blog
Contact details
- paul.oudin@vermeille-avocats.com
- Follow me on LinkedIn
- Speaks English & French
Curriculum vitae and career path
Prior to joining Vermeille & Co, Léa worked in the corporate and M&A departments of international law firms such as Clifford Chance and Allen & Overy in Paris, Paul Weiss in London and Clifford Chance in Casablanca. Léa has also worked in the legal department of Lazard in Paris and the compliance department of CACIB in London.
Léa holds a Magistère Juriste d’Affaire from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, as well as a Diplôme de Juriste Conseil d’Entrepreise (DJCE). She also holds a certificate in banking and financial law from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas.
Contact details
- lea.desurmont@vermeille-avocats.com
- Follow me on LinkedIn
- Speaks English & French
