Gide has elected its new Executive Committee, with Baudouin de Moucheron (Senior Partner) and Stéphane Puel (Managing Partner) re-elected for a second term. Laurent Modave, Nadège Nguyen, and Stéphane Vernay, three Gide partners also elected by their peers, join Baudouin and Stéphane on the Executive Committee. It will take office in January 2015.

Baudouin de Moucheron, 58, has been re-elected as Senior Partner. A former holder of the coveted Paris Bar Debating Society title of Secrétaire de la Conférence, he is one of the leading French specialists in litigation involving employment law and corporate crime. Baudouin de Moucheron also founded and managed Gide’s Istanbul office between 1997 and 2000 and served as a French Foreign Trade Adviser during those years. He was a member of Gide’s Executive Committee from 2003 to 2005.

Stéphane Puel (graduate of Sciences Po, Paris, 1996), 43, a member of the Executive Committee since 2010, has been re-elected as Managing Partner. Stéphane Puel is particularly recognised for his expertise in financial regulation and in creating and structuring investment funds. He is a member of the French financial markets authority’s advisory commission for management companies and institutional investors.

This re-election addresses a strong signal to the firm’s management team, giving the go-ahead to its ambitious growth strategy set in motion three years ago now both in France and abroad. In 2013 and 2014, Gide integrated 17 new partners from some of the world’s best firms, in France, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe and Russia, and in key practice areas: Banking & Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Dispute Resolution, Restructuring, Real Estate, and Tax.

Gide’s international strategy will continue and ensure the firm’s optimum positioning both in terms of skill and intervention capabilities in high-growth regions, particularly in Africa and Asia. It will be able to count on the significant international experience of the three new partners integrating the Management Committee alongside Baudouin de Moucheron and Stéphane Puel.

Two other major areas of development will anchor this strategy in the long term: the continuous search for excellence and the fostering of talent throughout our offices in the service of our clients.

Senior Partner Baudouin de Moucheron states: “It is an honour to be thus re-elected at the head of the Management Committee. Stéphane and I will continue all the efforts, begun some three years ago now, to strengthen our international appeal, the excellence and the promotion of our talent, which together make our firm the recognised partner of major corporations the world over.”

Managing Partner Stéphane Puel adds: “These last three years spent with Baudouin as the firm’s co-head have been a whirlwind of change and strategic successes, on which we can now build this new term with confidence and determination, and just as much ambition. Our clients’ expectations are evolving at an increasingly fast pace, and their legal counsel must assist them with a fine-tuned understanding of their needs and their environment. We will draw upon the firm’s immense resources to meet the challenges of our ambitious strategy.”

Laurent Modave, 42, specialises in French and international tax law. His main fields of intervention are the tax aspects of mergers & acquisitions and private equity transactions, investment funds, and REITs, and the tax structuring of real estate investments. He is a member of the Institut des Avocats Conseils Fiscaux and regularly drafts articles on tax issues.

Nadège Nguyen, 46, specialises in domestic and cross-border acquisitions and corporate matters, in particular in the industrial and renewable energy sectors, as well as restructuring and turn-around transactions. In 2013, Nadège was elected Chair of Lex Mundi for a one-year term - Lex Mundi is the largest international network of top-tier law firms in their respective jurisdictions, with Gide as the exclusive member for France. The network numbers some 21,000 lawyers in over 100 countries.

Stéphane Vernay, 44, specialises in project finance transactions in the fields of energy, transport, water treatment, urban networks and infrastructure, and acts as advisor to governments, sponsors and lenders. He has also developed particular expertise in the aerospace and defence businesses. His regions of focus are Europe, Africa, Asia and South America. He spent 12 years in Gide’s Beijing office and opened Gide Hong Kong in 2006.