De Guillenchmidt & Associés (DGA) joins Veil Jourde, leading French firm

Veil Jourde is continuing to expand and has joined De Guillenchmidt & Associés (DGA), a French firm comprising two partners, Maxime de Guillenchmidt and Matthieu Ragot, one senior counsel, Gilles de Boisséson, and four lawyers, Victor Lehmann, Guillaume Haudry, Solange Erambert and Audrey Roustit.

These arrivals bring the total number of lawyers at the firm to almost 70, including 23 partners. Veil Jourde has strengthened its skills in several key areas, including commercial litigation and corporate criminal law with Maxime de Guillenchmidt, and public economic and regulatory law with Matthieu Ragot.

“The integration of this dynamic and experienced team is a key step in our growth strategy. The synergies with our existing teams will enhance our expertise and strengthen our service offering”

Georges Jourde, founding partner, and Eric Deubel, partner and member of the Management Committee.

With a strong team of 7 partners in business litigation, Veil Jourde is consolidating its position as leader in this field.

In addition, Maxime Seno’s activities in public and regulatory law will be extended to include advice and litigation for international organisations, an area in which Matthieu Ragot has been active for several years. The complementary skills of these teams will enable Veil Jourde to continue to support economic players in all aspects of regulatory litigation – from the challenge of a standard to its control by the authorities, via disputes between competitors.

“Joining a leading firm like Veil Jourde and participating in its continued growth is a great challenge for our team. The wide range of expertise offered by the firm meets a real need for our clients. The firm’s solidity and the partnership values that we have found there provide the perfect framework for continuing our development”.

Maxime de Guillenchmidt and Matthieu Ragot

Prior to joining Veil Jourde, Maxime de Guillenchmidt was managing partner of De Guillenchmidt & Associés (DGA) from 2012. He previously worked in the Litigation and Media departments of Sokolow Dunaud Mercadier Carreras (2003), Latham & Watkins (2004-2009) and Winston & Strawn (2009-2011).
Maxime advises on strategic commercial litigation, regulatory disputes and business criminal law for French and foreign clients. He regularly appears before civil, commercial and criminal courts. He also assists clients with DGCCRF inspections (misleading commercial practices, anti-gift schemes, etc.). Maxime’s commercial litigation practice at DGA is listed in various league tables, including Legal 500 EMEA.
Maxime plays an active role in the Fondation France Asie, of which he is a director and former Young Leader of the China chapter. He also has a number of pro bono commitments as part of his work as a lawyer.
Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2002, he holds a postgraduate diploma (DESS) in international and EU litigation from Université Paris Cité and an LLM from University College London (UCL). He teaches at SciencesPo Paris.

Before joining Veil Jourde, Matthieu Ragot joined De Guillenchmidt & Associés (DGA) in 2009, when it was founded, and became a partner in 2018.

He advises his clients – business organisations, international groups and SMEs, international organisations, local authorities and associations – on all their complex issues relating to public economic law, public international law and civil liberties. Matthieu appears before the administrative courts, including the Conseil d’Etat, as well as the Constitutional Council, the Court of Justice of the European Union, the European Court of Human Rights and the international courts.

Matthieu has been a lecturer at the Ecole d’Affaires Publiques de SciencesPo since September 2022 and was a lecturer in constitutional law for several years at the Université Paris V Descartes.

A member of the Paris Bar since 2008, he holds a Master 2 in human rights and the law of armed conflict (2007).