Executive Committee

President of the Rules for Growth institute, Georges Ugeux is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Galileo Global Advisors (an investment bank specializing in cross-border advice and transactions, particularly to and from emerging countries). He is an Associate Professor at the Columbia University School of Law, where he convenes a seminar on International Banking and Finance. He is also...

General Secretary of Droit & Croissance, Vincent Maire graduated with an LL. M. from New York University School of Law (NYU) and a DJCE from the University of Rennes 1. Admitted to the New York and Paris bars (but not registered), Vincent currently practices M&A – Private Equity in London at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP.

Treasurer of Droit & Croissance, Gaëlle has been a member of the Institute since 2016. She also serves as Chief Operating Officer. Gaëlle has spent most of her career in communication functions (Clifford Chance office, France Télévisions, Patricia Goldman Communication agency, Ministries of Economy and Budget, ministerial offices, local authorities, sustainable development consulting firm). She holds a MASTER 2...

Farah is a PhD candidate at Paris Saclay University. Her research focuses on the use of Artificial intelligence in trading. Farah is a graduate of the Harvard Law School LL.M and the Master’s degree in Financial Law from the Sorbonne Law School. She also studied business law, IT law and OHADA law at the Panthéon-Assas University and the UCLA...

Teodora Groza is a third 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. She is working on the interaction between theories of the firm and competition law, as well as on...

Fabien is a fourth year Ph.D student in Law & Economics at Paris-Saclay University, in joint supervision with Laval University (Canada). Graduate in Law, Economics & Management, Fabien specialized at Paris-Saclay, SciencesPo Paris & Télécom Paris on innovation topics (digital law, intellectual property, legal design, etc.). His research carried out at the Center for Studies and Research in Intangible...

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 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,...

Vasile heads the Restructuring Research Group of the Rules for Growth (Droit & Croissance) Institute. He is a DPhil in Law candidate at the University of Oxford, working under the supervision of Prof. Horst Eidenmüller and Prof. Kristin van Zwieten. His doctoral research focuses on court-supervised corporate debt restructurings, and particularly on the governance strategies used for policing opportunism in corporate restructurings in the...

Sophie Vermeille is the founder of Droit & Croissance. She currently practices corporate, securities and restructuring law in Paris and has worked in the past for several international law firms (such as Clifford Chance, Weil Gotshal & Manges, Freshfields and DLA Piper). Sophie advises investors, shareholder advocacy groups, short selling activists and minority shareholders on matters such as: •...