Team

Founder of Droit et Croissance/Rules for Growth Institute, Sophie Vermeille is a corporate and restructuring attorney at Vermeille & Co. Speaker and researcher with the legal economic laboratory at the University of Paris II, Pantheon-Assas, her research chiefly concerns the economy of insolvencies. She has been invited to teach bankruptcy law in various Parisian establishments, including the Sciences Po...

Vice President of Droit & Croissance, he is a graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique, and holder of a PhD in economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Economics professor at New York University and the Paris School of Economics. Between June 2012 and August 2013, he was Economic Advisor to the French Ministry of Finance. Administrator of the Europanova...

A contributor to Droit & Croissance / Rules for Growth Institute, Eva is interested in law and economics, particularly from the point of view of behavioral economics applied to corporate law. She is also working on macroeconomic issues in competition law. Eva is a graduate of Sciences Po (Paris) and the Sorbonne (Master of Philosophy). After pursuing studies in...

Adnene is a member of Droit & Croissance since 2021 and is involved in the Corporate Governance and Takeover Unit as well as the Banking and Financial Regulation Unit. After obtaining his bachelor’s degree in private law in Tunis, Adnene pursued his studies in France at the universities of Toulouse, Paris-Panthéon-Assas, Panthéon-Sorbonne and SciencesPo successively, within Masters specialized in...

Aurelio Gurrea-Martínez is an Assistant Professor of Law at Singapore Management University, where he teaches company law, financial and securities regulation, corporate governance, and comparative and international insolvency law. He is also the head of the Singapore Global Restructuring Initiative and co-chair of the SMU-3CL Cambridge Roundtable on Corporate Insolvency. Before joining SMU, he was a Fellow of the...

Thibault has been a member of the Rules for Growth Institute since March 2017, where he works in the restructuring research group. He is interested in bankruptcy law, European and international restructurings and law and economics. Thibault is also interested in corporate governance issues and shareholder activism, its impact on the financial markets and on the economy in general....

Mathieu Luinaud works as a senior associate consultant in strategy consulting. A specialist of the space sector, his interest spans, on the legal side, from the regulation of space activities in orbit to the regulation of the telecom industry and space insurance. He is a member of the French Society for Air and Space Law (SFDAS) and of the Moon...

Mathieu is a graduate of Sciences Po Paris after having carried out studies in political science, law, economy and finance on the Franco-German European campus of Sciences Po as well as at Princeton University. He is currently studying for a Master’s in economic law at the law school of Sciences Po, enabling him to do part of his legal...

Paul became a member of Droit & Croissance in 2016. He graduated from the Magistère Juriste d’Affaires of Panthéon-Assas University and the MSc in Law and Finance of the University of Oxford. He is now practising as a lawyer in France and is a PhD student at the University of Oxford. Paul has initiated and participated in several research...

Youcef became a member of Droit & Croissance in 2019, working in the Innovation and Financial Markets research groups. After finishing his BA in Philosophy at McGill University, Youcef read for a Masters in Economic Law at Sciences Po, Paris, followed by a MSc in Law and Finance at the University of Oxford. Youcef is a DPhil (PhD) candidate...

Vasile holds degrees from Sciences Po Law School and the Sorbonne, where he studied financial law, philosophy of science and mathematical logic. He also studied at Columbia Law School, focusing on the economic analysis of corporate/finance law and intellectual property, as well as on legal theory. He is currently an Elève-avocat and has worded in this capacity in several...