Hugues Scalbert is a partner in Gide's "Corporate/Mergers & Acquisitions" team in Paris.

He specialises in domestic and international mergers and acquisitions, and has developed particular expertise in M&A transactions in the insurance, retail, higher education and defence sectors, as well as in transactions in the Gulf region (particularly Saudi Arabia).

Hugues recently advised ABN Amro and AXA on the sale of their life insurance subsidiary Neuflize Vie, Ageas on the sale of its life insurance subsidiary Ageas France, VYV on the sale of Egamo, Europ Assistance on the signing of a strategic partnership with Crédit Agricole Assurances, and AXA and BNPP on the sale of their life and non-life insurance subsidiaries in Ukraine. He regularly advises players in the mutual and cooperative insurance sector (VyV, MGEN, Unéo, La Mutuelle Générale, AGMF Prévoyance, Klésia, Malakoff Médéric, etc.).

He is a graduate of Université Paris II and was a lecturer at HEC. He gives lectures in the Paris 1 master of social protection. He was a member of the Board of Directors of the Franco-Arab Chamber of Commerce and he is a member of the Paris Bar since 1989. He attended the 62nd national session of the Institut des Hautes Etudes de la Défense Nationale.