Directeur juridique - direction générale - DPO - secrétariat général

(An entertainment Japanese group) - Video games and toys industry - Lyon - Paris

President of the works council as the representative of the company

• Member of the Comex
• Negotiation, drafting and management of all the contracts relating to the activities of the group (development, publishing, license, distribution BtoB, BtoC, broadband, digital exploitation, mobile games, websites,...).
• Legal support for the companies of the group (France, Germany, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, Greece, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Canada, Israël, Brazil,...)
• Merger and Acquisition of companies at a WW level (acquisition of 2 companies based in Canada and Germany in 2021)
• GDPR compliance - DPO
• Management of a team of lawyers
• Litigation
• Fight against piracy
• Management of the trademarks and domain names portfolios

Video games industry - Lyon - Paris - New York

• General Counsel
• Director of 20 companies of the group based in France and abroad
• Member of the Executive Committee
• Managing Director of the publishing company of the group
  • Negotiation, drafting and management of the contracts relating to the activities of the group (development, publishing, license, distribution BtoB, BtoC, broadband, digital exploitation, music publishing,...)
  • Creation of subsidiaries
  • Legal support of the companies of the group (US, Japan, France, Germany, UK, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, Greece, Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Israël, Brazil)
  • Merger - Acquisition (US, UK, France, Australia,...)
  • Legal management of the parent company at the Paris Stock Exchange
  • Responsible for acquisition of the musical rights of the group as a publisher
  • Litigation - Fight against piracy
  • Member of the ISFE (Interactive Software Federation of Europe)
  • Management of the trademarks and domain names portfolios

Management of 20 p : 13 lawyers (3 based in New York/1 in London/ 8 in Lyon/1 in Paris) - 2 financial controllers

Labels Polydor, Jazz (Verve, Emarcy, Geffen, ECM, Island, MCA, London, Fontana,...) Classique (Deutsch Grammophon, Decca, Philips, Archiv,...), Musidisc, Ulm (special marketing) :

• Negotiation, drafting and management of the contracts relating to the activities of the group (exclusivity, license, publishing, coproduction, distribution, BtoB, broadband, digital exploitation, websites, video,...).
• Relations with the publishers, producers, artists, managers, lawyers, other major companies, unions of artists and producers, Sacem/Sdrm...
• Litigation
• Implementation of new international software for the calculation of royalties, contract management,...

Management of 8 p. (6 lawyers)

(Music publisher and record producer)

• Negotiation, drafting and management of the contracts (exclusivity, license, publishing, coproduction, distribution,...).
• Management of the H.R
• Member of the publishers' union
• Litigation

(Reims / Paris) (Representing the French collecting rights societies)

• Management of the structure
• Licenses to play, perform and make available copyright music to the different institutions, organizations and public spaces where music is broadcasted or played in (local radios/tv, discotheques, danse clubs, bars, gigs, concerts, theatres,...)
• Royalty collection
• Relations with the performers, publishers, songwriters, composers, publishers, ..
• Litigation

Management of 6 p.

• SDRM (The French collecting mechanical rights Society) (Paris) (3 months)
• Law Firm: Leger-Robic-Richard (Montreal - Canada) (9 months)
• Virgin Music (Paris) (4 months)
• Law Firm: Gabet & associés (Paris) (3 months)