AUMANS, the law-firm
Jérôme Deroulez and Jean-Charles Foussat combine their expertise and teams within AUMANS, a new business law firm.
AUMANS is an independent boutique, organized around two strong and complementary specializations, distribution law and personal data law. With their common points and their common threads in a context of digitalization and use of new technologies.
The team has the same ambition in the strategic support of its clients, both in consulting, negotiation and litigation.
The partners' view
According to Jean-Charles Foussat, “we have always made sure to adapt our service offering to the evolution of our clients’ practices, particularly due to new technologies. The merger with Jérôme, a recognized specialist in the field of personal data, via AUMANS allows us to pool our energies and resources even more, to further support our clients in the digital transformation of their activities and their compliance (GDPR, TRACFIN, etc.).
For Jérôme Deroulez, “our two firms have been working together for a long time. Personal data law permeates all economic activities and more particularly distribution law or real estate transactions, on which Jean-Charles is particularly involved. We therefore have many synergies, in terms of compliance or IT contracts. The merger with Jean-Charles will also allow us to support our clients in their commercial disputes. But it is above all the desire to carry out a joint project, to offer new forms of strategic support that underpinned the creation of AUMANS”.
Why AUMANS?
This name chosen by the team is a reference echoing Aumance and the environmental projects pursued by the partners. It is also a way of describing the law-firm through other horizons.
Team
Jean-Charles Foussat
Lawyer
Jean-Charles FOUSSAT, founding partner, admitted to the Paris (1997) and Brussels (2011) Bar.
“Coming from a family of commercial agents, I was aware of importance of business at a young age. Getting involved in this, especially in commercial agency law, seemed only natural when I was founding the firm. Meanwhile, we have closely followed the development of legislation applicable to commercial agents in the property field. However, the ways of distributing products have considerably evolved over the last 20 years (development of on-line sales, revival of door-to-door sales, networks of principals, etc.).
Indeed, committed to assisting our clients in their long-term development, we have developed our expertise in these different, complementary, legal areas”.
Jean-Charles FOUSSAT founded the firm in 2003 after having worked at GIDE (in Moscow, then Paris) and DEPREZ GUIGNOT where he specialised in business law, company law, mergers and acquisitions and other commerrcial matters. In 2023, with Jérôme DEROULEZ, he created AUMANS AVOCATS resulting from the merger of their two structures.
Jean-Charles studied at Sciences Po Paris (1991) and then at the law faculty of la Sorbonne-Paris I (1994)
Jérôme DEROULEZ, admitted to the Paris (2015) and Brussels (2017) bar, former student of the National School for the Judiciary.
“My professional experience has enabled me to develop a recognised expertise in two areas of practice : criminal law and criminal procedure on the one hand, and data protection in France and Europe, on the other.
AUMANS was born from numerous supports carried out jointly by our teams and from our desire to develop new offers.
Negotiating and proposing effective strategies to our clients is part of our DNA, due to our experiences and our conception of advice and defense.”
Jérôme DEROULEZ participated for several years in European and international negotiations in Brussels before creating his firm in 2015.
Specializing in personal data protection and new technology law, he joined forces with the FOUSSAT firm to create AUMANS AVOCATS and implement new synergies.
Jérôme DEROULEZ is a graduate of Sciences Po (1995), the Faculty of Law of Lille (1997) and a former student of the National School of Magistracy.
Jérôme DEROULEZ
Lawyer
Vincent ANTRAYGUES
Associate Of Counsel
Vincent Antraygues, associate Of Counsel, lawyer at the Paris bar (2017)
After his end-of-studies internship at FOUSSAT AVOCATS, Vincent ANTRAYGUES first joined the firm as a lawyer and then as an associate. Specializing in commercial agent law and more generally in commercial intermediary law, he assists clients in setting up their distribution network and during their commercial disputes. He also supports real estate agents in their daily issues (compliance with the Hoguet law, TRACFIN, principal disputes, drafting of legal documentation, etc.).
Due to his training in international trade law, Vincent ANTRAYGUES works on the firm’s transnational files.
Vincent ANTRAYGUES holds a Master 2 in Private International Law and International Trade from Paris II.
Valentine CHAUVEAU, lawyer at the Paris Bar (2022)
Valentine CHAUVEAU specializes in new technologies and joined the Firm in January 2024 after working for several years in large and niche law firms, as well as in innovative start-ups.
She currently assists public and private sector players in all their issues related to the protection of personal data, particularly in contract law, IT, intellectual property and advanced technologies (blockchain, artificial intelligence, big data).
Valentine CHAUVEAU holds a Master II in Business Law from Paris I and an MBA in Risks, Economic Security and Cybersecurity from the Ecole de guerre économique.
Valentine CHAUVEAU
Lawyer
Astrid BARBEY
Lawyer
Astrid Barbey, admitted to the Paris bar (1994)
Astrid Barbey works on matters relating to commercial law and litigation.
As such, Astrid advises our clients on their commercial relationships.
With experience in England and France in international law firms FTPA and Baker & McKenzie, and having worked in-house for pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca, Astrid has a dual approach to her areas of expertise: that of a lawyer and of an internal decision-maker.
This enables a unique offer to our clients of an appropriate and tailored response to every need.
Astrid has much experience within the health and life science sectors (health products, pharmaceutical industry, medical devices, biotechnology), particularly in an international context.
Astrid Barbey obtained a Magistère de Juriste d’Affaires Européen at Nancy University and the law faculty of Lancaster University (United-Kingdom).
Catherine Chamagne, admitted to the Paris (1996) and Marseille (2005) bar
Based in Marseille, Catherine Chamagne is a litigator in commercial agency and employment law, as well as civil and contractual liability.
Catherine Chamagne assists our clients in an advisory and litigious capacity on trademark law, unfair competition law, copyright law, including the protected images, diffamation/slander
Catherine Chamagne obtained a Diplôme d’Études Approfondies in Communication Law from la Sorbonne-Paris II (1992) and l’Institut Supérieur du Marketing de Luxe (1992).
Catherine CHAMAGNE
Lawyer
Patricia ALBERTELLI
Administrative Officer
Patricia ALBERTELLI is the Administrative Officer for Aumans Avocats.
In this capacity, Patricia ALBERTELLI assists the members of the firm in the management and administration of the structure.
Anja MANDIMBY is in charge of the accounting and administrative services of the Firm.
He is a graduate of the Master 2 Business Management from Paris Dauphine.
Anja MANDIMBY
Accountant
Jean MINDAA
Lawyer
Lawyer within the firm, Jean MINDAA participates in the monitoring and publications of the firm in the field of data protection and new technologies.
Holder of a Master of European Business and Digital Law, he has an in-depth knowledge of legal issues related to European digital regulations.
