Member Profiles

Séverin qualified as a lawyer in 1999 and became a partner at BCTG Avocats in 2002. He heads the M&A team of BCTG Avocats, which is composed of more than 10 partners and associates. His core clients include foreign and French groups as well as investments funds, which he accompanies in their corporate transactions in France and abroad, in particular in the FMCG, infrastructure, chemical/pharma and food sectors.

Camille has been post graduated in 1995 from La Rochelle Business School, one of the most prestigious French Business Schools. Camille has finalized her studies in the UK at Plymouth University, an intensive experience certainly at the origin of her attraction for Anglo-Saxon countries. Her thesis aiming at validating her post-graduated Diploma was focusing on Direct Foreign Corporate Investments in Ireland. Straight after post-graduation, Camille left France and found her first employment with Kerry Group, a well known international group in the Food Industry , and worked in the “customer service” department liaising on a daily basis with sales, production, buying department, transport & laboratory. Having the personal project for many years to establish a company in an international environment, Camille established SEDI in 1996, first in Ireland, then in the UK and finally in France, straight after one year of professional experience with Kerry Group, thanks to the support of one of her former senior lecturer, well known as Tax agent. Hard worker, respecting deadlines, not being reluctant at taking decisions or at spending hours looking for information, being keen to communicate about complicated issues with simple words, Camille’s aim is to help her clients expanding gradually in a foreign surrounding. Active member of the Franco-British Chamber of Commerce in Paris and of other business networks, Camille is regularly invited to be speaker during conferences & professional seminars. SEDI is also organizing regularly conferences to share its expertise. With an educational & working knowledge of both the French and English system, her company SEDI is able to offer expert advice and guidance on company formations, payroll, financial and administrative back up services. SEDI’s portfolio of clients is 100% international and has helped to built up a vast experience throughout very different legal, tax and social cases in Ireland, UK and France along these 29 past years. Outside interests : Travelling abroad, hiking, bio attitude, DIY Foreign languages : French mother tongue - English fluent , can understand & read Portuguese & German (no regular oral practice ) Practice area : Company agent / Accounting & VAT / Corporate Tax 

François Leloup's practice is focused on mergers and acquisitions, leveraged buyouts, group restructurings and related corporate transactions. Noted by respected industry publications as a leading practitioner in his field, he offers clients the benefit of over twenty-five years' legal experience. During this time, François has worked on major projects in an array of industries, handling intricately structured cross-border deals. François' wide sector knowledge, combined with his significant international track record, enables him to help clients to structure and execute transactions regardless of their scale or multijurisdictional complexity. His deep understanding of transactional matters is matched by his ability to provide pragmatic, goal-focused advice. When heading up teams of lawyers, he is also adept at coordinating counsel across multiple disciplines and offices to provide clients with clear, yet comprehensive legal strategies. François' representative client portfolio in France includes major funds as The Carlyle Group and renowned corporate companies as Publicis. François has also lectured on corporate law and mergers and acquisitions at HEC Paris, which is regularly ranked as one of the best business schools in Europe. François Leloup is a leading mergers and acquisitions lawyer, whose extensive transactional experience also includes leveraged buyouts and group restructurings.

R. Passemard is a founding partner of Selarl Ormen Passemard – ORPA Legal, a highly regarded law firm in the areas of commercial litigation, liability, insurance and reinsurance. He has nearly three decades of experience and advises insurers, reinsurers, financial institutions and major corporations. Rémi acts in a broad range of insurance matters involving general liability, professional indemnity, E&O, product liability and industrial risks, serving as monitoring, coverage or defence counsel before French courts. He has a strong expertise in financial lines (D&O, EPL, IPO, and crime/fraud), and also practices life insurance, regulatory, policy wordings and cyber risks. In commercial and banking, Rémi acts in litigation, debt recovery, enforcement of securities, financial investments and unit-linked life insurance contracts. Rémi advises French and foreign clients, insurers, banks or major corporations in disputes arising before French or foreign jurisdictions.

Maryse Naudin began her career in the tax department of one of the major accounting firms, where she was in charge of the real estate practice and the South East Asia clientele, prior to co-founding Tirard, Naudin. She now has more than 30 years' experience in advising and defending a varied clientele, from multinational corporations to high net worth individuals, in relation to cross-border tax issues. She has a particular expertise in advising foreign investors acquiring French real estate property as well as advising French clients with foreign interests. Maryse Naudin also has a wealth of expertise in matters relating to trust aspects in a civil law environment, European taxation, and in particular to tax litigation with respect to community freedoms. Ms. Naudin is the co-founder and former secretary of the French branch of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP), and a former chairman of the "International Estate Planning" commission of the Union Internationale des Avocats. She is a frequent speaker at seminars dealing with international tax planning in the context of various matters, such as European Holdings or structuring investments in French real estate.