Team

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...

Sophie is the founder of Droit & Croissance. Sophie Vermeille currently practices corporate, securities and restructuring law in the law firm she founded in Paris. (https://www.vermeille-avocats.com) She worked in the past for several international law firms (such as Clifford Chance, Weil Gotshal & Manges, Freshfields and DLA Piper). Sophie has an in-depth knowledge of US securities law, Chapter 11 and...

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...

Teodora Groza is a second year PhD student in competition law at Sciences Po Law School. She has earned her Master’s Degree in economic law from Sciences Po and Columbia Law School and has undergraduate degrees in European law and philosophy. Currently on a research stay at Harvard Law School, she is working on the interaction between theories of...

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 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...

Youcef leads the Sustainable Law and Finance Working Group of Droit & Croissance. He is currently a DPhil in Law (PhD) candidate at the University of Oxford, where he is pursuing research on the objectives and rationales of mandating ESG disclosures. He is also a researcher at the Oxford Sustainable Law Programme. Youcef received his Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from McGill University,...

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...

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...