Former lawyer15 years at the Bar
Entrepreneurcatering, hospitality, podcasts
AI builderTraining AI on large volumes of legal data
We have downloaded the entire body of French tax doctrine (49,000 files and 5 million pages) and are reprocessing it so that a machine can answer like a tax specialist. Current research: making legal RAG systems reliable (vector, hybrid and graph indexes), applying the law as it stood at a given date, and replacing hallucinated figures with deterministic calculations. In partnership with a law firm; details are reserved for invited guests.
Catering for weddings, companies and private events, up to 250 covers per service. A guest house in a Bordeaux mansion, and “From desk to apron” weekends.
A newly built house 100 m from the beach, with all the interior finishing work done by myself.
Estimate the budget for a cocktail party, dinner or wedding in Bordeaux based on guest numbers and service. In French.
→ Open the simulatorFrench ILC, ILAT and ICC indices, updated from INSEE: 12-year indexation, tunnel clauses, three-year reviews and capped rent. No AI, nothing sent to a server. In French.
→ Open the simulatorTraining an AI on the entire body of French tax doctrine: 49,000 files and 5 million pages, in partnership with a law firm. Building free legal simulators, including commercial lease indexation.
Created a boutique hotel in a Bordeaux mansion, a catering business (weddings, corporate, private events) and seminars. Clients include Château Lafleur, for a reception of head sommeliers from three-star restaurants, L’Oréal, the Gironde departmental council and yacht owners. HACCP certified (HySeQua).
Volunteer in the kitchen for 150 to 250 covers per service at France’s largest charity restaurant. I helped double its attendance.
After La Barre, my first podcast, with over 10,000 listens per episode, I produced and hosted Gens de Mer, a podcast on ocean conservation for Le Chasse-Marée (Ouest-France group).
Published La Bible de la Cuisine à Bord in 2019, then Gastronomie Nomade in 2023.
Offshore sailing: several transatlantic crossings there and back, and over 20,000 nautical miles sailed.
Registered with the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) to support the London activity of the firm 1862.
Paris Centre for Mediation and Arbitration.
Civil, commercial and institutional mediation. Cross-border disputes over share deals, commercial contracts and joint ventures. Multi-party mediation between local authorities, companies and citizens, and support for elected officials in sensitive disputes.
Led most of the French class actions involving managed residences: over 15,000 investors represented, from tourist residences to care homes, senior and student residences. Crisis management between operators, developers and local authorities. The firm closed in June 2023.
Admitted to the Paris Bar. Share deals and joint ventures for Goldman Sachs, Unibail-Rodamco, PSA, ADIA, Grosvenor, Hammerson, CNP and General Electric, on real estate portfolios worth €100M to €1B.
Six months in the mergers and acquisitions (M&A) team.
Qualified as a lawyer (CAPA, French Bar certificate), with Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas University.
Professional Master’s degree (Master II) in international business law.
Master in Strategic Management.
Master in Management in China, taught entirely in Mandarin.
Data hosted in the EU, GDPR compliance, deterministic calculations wherever possible. And professional secrecy, which I know from the inside.
Detailed presentations and my phone number are shared one at a time, with a personal code.
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