Florence is a Counsel in the Paris office, specialising in both competition law and ethics and compliance.
As a member of the Competition & EU practice, she assists clients in all areas of French and EU competition law ranging from cartel investigations to dominance issues as well as merger control and dawn raids.
Since joining Bird & Bird in 2015, she has been involved in high profile matters in particular proceedings before the French Competition Authority, with a strong focus on the telecoms sector.
She has started her career in Brussels as a competition law associate of a ’Magic Circle’ law firm, she also has a deep knowledge of EU and international competition law.
A few years ago, she decided to strengthen her expertise in ethics and compliance and passed a certificate of Leading Professional in Ethics and Compliance. Since then, she regularly assists clients in the development and implementation of their competition and anti-bribery compliance programmes as well as their whistleblowing systems, carrying out gap analysis, risk assessment, risk mapping, trainings, drafting whistleblowing policies, etc.
She has worked as an in-house for a number of international companies (AB InBev, L’Oréal and Orange), she has a very good understanding of the needs of in-house legal departments and the level of service needed from private practice lawyers.