Cyrille Violot

Corporate and Business Law Manager

CORPORATE AND BUSINESS LAW MANAGER FOR TABLEWARE / HOME DIVISION / NORTH AMERICA, LATIN AMERICA AND AUSTRALIAN SUBSIDIARIES / COMMUNICATION
MANAGEMENT OF TWO IN-HOUSE COUNSELS AND ONE LEGAL ASSISTANT
IN-HOUSE COUNSEL FOR SILK (2000) AND LEATHER (2001-2003) COMPANIES / JOHN LOBB (2000-2003) / HERMÈS WATCHES / RIDING DIVISION / EUROPEAN SUSBSIDIARIES (2001-2003)
- Corporate Law: all matters such as management of board of directors and shareholders general Meetings, mergers and acquisitions, audits, letters of intent, acquisitions/share purchase agreements, assets and liabilities guarantees, shareholders agreements, restructuration and recapitalization operations, asset investment, transfer of company assets, setting up of rules for operating bank accounts, equity management, change of legal status of companies, shareholding relations.
- Supervision of the North American, Latin American and Australian subsidiaries: all contracts and matters such as joint-ventures, approval of financial statements and recapitalization operations, leases and real estate issues, employment contracts, sub-contracting agreements.
- Distribution and Commercial Law: all contracts and matters such as exclusive agent, selective and general distribution agreements, standard conditions of sale and purchase, sub-contracting and partnership agreements, supplier agreements, Group Internet web sites agreements, Group internal agreements.
- Real Estate Law: negotiations and follow-up of the leases, real estate acquisitions.
- Communication Law: media services contracts, including agency and advertiser contracts.
- Labour Law: executives’ employment agreements, internal rules and regulations, dismissal, procedures.
- Management of litigation and lawsuits / Supervision of a Class Action in the United States.
- Intellectual Property Law: all contracts and matters such as copyrights (artists, photographers, designers, etc.), masterworks loan agreements, trademark agreements, designers’ contracts, audits.

Sector: Luxury Goods and Cosmetics

In-House Counsel

IN-HOUSE COUNSEL / MANAGEMENT OF ONE IN-HOUSE COUNSEL AND ONE LEGAL ASSISTANT
- Development/management of licences and international contracts for Group companies: multiple agreements, including manufacturing, distribution, know-how, sub-contracting, partnerships and exclusive agents. Joint ventures. Letters of intent. Audits of mergers and acquisitions. Setting up of a new subsidiary in Eastern Europe.
- Legal work for the holding company: share purchase and transfer of shares agreements, business and assets transfer, service agreements, loan agreements, computer technology agreements, sponsoring agreements, leases, boutique and selective distribution agreements, Group internal agreements.
- Management of board of directors and shareholders general meetings for all of the Group’s companies.
- Legal counsel to the Group’s operational divisions: participation in the setting up of the company’s Internet site, legal advices in distribution and competition law.
- Intellectual Property Law: brand, trademark and patent applications (including transfers and litigation), letters of consent, oversight of copyright and patent rights.

Sector: Textile - Clothing - Accessories

In-House Counsel

IN-HOUSE COUNSEL, INTERNATIONAL LEGAL DEPARTMENT
- International development of the Group: audits of mergers and acquisitions, share purchase and share transfer agreements, assets and liabilities guarantees, partnerships, trademark licence agreements, joint-ventures, letters of intent, shareholders agreements.
- Legal oversight of the Group’s foreign subsidiaries: recapitalization operations, security agreements, trademark search and applications, letters of consent, participation in the setting up of a profit-sharing scheme for managers of foreign subsidiaries, employment contracts.
- Management of board of directors and shareholders general meetings.

Sector: Marketing and Advertisement