Pauline Faron

Pauline joined the Paris litigation team in 2012. Since then, she has been specialising in commercial litigation, with a particular focus in the new technologies industry. She also regularly assists clients in the Food & Drinks and Energy sector 

As a lawyer notably specialising in product liability and safety, she helped various innovative companies wishing to market new products to penetrate the French market. She also assists her clients navigate the changing legal landscape governing online platforms, social networks and hosting providers. She enjoys going into the details of the industry in which her clients work and is as comfortable in Court as she is visiting industrial facilities or plants.

Pauline offers constructive guidance and is keen to finding practical solutions to accommodate both the goals of the business while mitigating legal risks. She regularly assists clients facing regulatory issues as well as pre-litigation and litigation claims. Over the past years, she assisted clients defending unfair competition claims, abrupt termination of established business relationships, but also claims brought by consumer associations or French regulators. She has also been extensively involved in data protection litigations pending before the French Data Protection Authority (CNIL), the Paris Judicial Court, the French Administrative Supreme Court and the European Court of Justice. 

She has been following closely recent developments regarding the introduction of class actions in France and advises her clients as to how to adapt and mitigate risks.

Thanks to her MBA in Business law and Management, Pauline is well-suited to address the challenges faced on a daily basis by companies. Qualified under French law, Pauline also holds a Bachelor of Civil Law from University College Dublin