Biography
Apolline is an Associate at Signature Litigation’s Paris office with considerable experience in civil and commercial litigation. She represents French and international clients in a wide range of tort and contract claims.
Her practice encompasses several areas of litigation, including product liability, unfair competition, and the abrupt termination of established commercial relationships. She advises a broad range of companies operating in the chemical, energy, banking, and digital sectors.
Prior to joining Signature Litigation, Apolline trained with the Commercial Litigation team at Hogan Lovells. She also gained valuable experience within the in-house legal teams of two major international companies in the construction and pharmaceutical industries, both in France and abroad, accumulating over eighteen months of in-house experience.
Apolline holds law degrees from Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne University and Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University, as well as a Master of Business Administration from the Assas Management School.
She is a native French speaker and a fluent English speaker.
Experience
- Representing a leading US chemical manufacturer in a personal injury claim commenced in the French courts by an individual against a number of chemical manufacturers in relation to the supply of Agent Orange, a herbicide and a defoliant, used by the US Army in the Vietnam War to destroy vegetation for the protection of US troops. The case concerns notably the application of a sovereign immunity principle to commercial entities when acting on State’s instructions. The case reached the Court of Cassation, the highest Court in France for civil matters.
- Representing a European utility company in claims initiated by an electromagnetic health and environment-focused organisation and, separately, by individuals in relation to alleged health and environmental risks posed by smart utility meters, as well as in relation to consumer protection issues under the company’s General Terms & Conditions.
- Representing Dalloz, LexisNexis, Lextenso, Lexbase and Lamy Liaisons, the five main legal editors in the French legal publishing market, in unfair competition proceedings before the Paris Court of Appeal against Forseti, the company behind the Doctrine.fr website.
- Representing top five Lebanese banks in multiple significant cases arising in the context of the Lebanese financial crisis and concerning regulatory restrictions on clients’ withdrawal of foreign currency deposits. The cases included defending the banks against interim attachment applications made by the banks’ clients in France.