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Our missions
Some of our recent missions
Elise Boustière
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Elise started her career as a legal expert for an investment fund.

Eager to keep ties with the business world while at the same time practising as a lawyer, she oriented her work towards the area of labour law, both at PwC and later when she joined the employment law department of an independent business law firm in 2013.

With the creation of ELSE, she is part of a common desire to fully satisfy companies’ needs and to provide cutting-edge expertise in matters of employment law.

In this way, Elise assists the firm’s clients in all areas of labour and social security law legislation.

She provides companies with advice on various matters including international issues (mobility, expatriation, managing staff relocation to France).

Elise is a member of the MAABN (Mediterranean Anglo-American Business Network) and of the Business Professional Women network.

She is also a teaching assistant at Aix-Marseille University.

Sandrine Mathieu-Begnis
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After her first professional experience as a legal expert at an accounting firm, Sandrine joined an independent business law firm when its employment law department was first set up.

From the very beginning of her career, she has focussed on acquiring an expertise in both employment and corporate law, which today gives her a cross-disciplinary view on her work in matters of labour law.

Setting up the ELSE law firm was consistent with her desire to be as close as possible to the issues facing companies and to provide them with active support on a daily basis.

Deeply involved in community work and professional networks, Sandrine is part of a BNI (Business Network International) group and member of the Business Professional Women network and has chaired her bar’s young law professionals’ union (UJA).

She also teaches at Aix-Marseille University, at the ESPI and at the ENADEP.

Frédérique Garnier
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Frédérique started her career at the Barthélémy & Associés law firm.

She worked as South-East France area director at PwC before joining in an independent business law firm  in January 2013 to set up its employment law department.

At ELSE, Frédérique continues to pursue her goal of providing her clients with a high level of expertise and a strategic vision of employment law, thanks to an independent structure dedicated to labour law issues.

Her work takes her all over France, although most of her time is spent in Paris and the South East.

Frédérique is a member of the ANDRH and the Avosial network.

She is also a teaching assistant at Aix-Marseille University.

Staff representative bodies
Providing support to a major French company in negotiating a landmark agreement with the works committee to implement a job-based structure rather than site-based.
Collective bargaining / working hours
Providing assistance with negotiations and in drawing up working hours agreements for flexitime in order to satisfy the company and workers’ needs for more flexible working hours.
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Social security optimization
Guiding our client from the drawing up of settlement protocols right through to the outcome of a dispute involving an URSSAF social contributions adjustment, further to a dismissal for serious ...
Guiding our client from the drawing up of settlement protocols right through to the outcome of a dispute involving an URSSAF social contributions adjustment, further to a dismissal for serious misconduct, and obtaining a decision in principle on settlement from the French Court of Appeals (Cass. civ. 2ème ,15 mars 2018 n° 17-10.325, F-P+B).
International
Advising a British client on a temporary head-hunting assignment for staff in France; providing assistance to a French company in relocating several staff members to the United Arab Emirates.
Our clients
Our clients talk about us
Europe HR Director – food industry
ELSE puts together a great level of expertise with reasonable fees
HR Director of a wordlwide group – pharmaceutical industry
At ELSE we found lawyers who were not only experts in their field but who were also available for their clients, which are two rare qualities gathered in the same firm.
HR Director of a major company – beverages industry
ELSE’s teams are always extremely reactive and able to deliver adequate responses to every kind of emergencies . The firm is not only capable of providing a proper legal analysis but also of finding practical and business oriented solutions.