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Virginie Devos

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Virginie Devos, a partner at August Debouzy since 2005 within the Labour and Employment Law department, assists her clients with the management of the development and transformation of their organization as well as with their day-to-day activities. Pragmatic, she helps clients build the most appropriate legal solution best matching the objective pursued, having regard to the political and economic environment, based on her keen understanding of the social fabric in which the client operates.

Regularly interviewed on employment law topics and spurred by the desire to share her knowledge and expertise, Virginie Devos teaches at the business law school of Montpellier.

Before joining August Debouzy, she honed her skills at Deloitte & Touche (now Taj) and at Jacques Barthélémy.   

Practice Area

  • Employment and Social Security Law
  • Dispute Resolution

  • Assistance with the management of reorganizations, restructuring transactions, sales of companies, employment management (employment protection plans, forward-looking management, collective performance agreement, etc.)  

  • Advice on the developments of organizations (working time arrangements, construction of compensation plans, management of relations with employee representative bodies, etc.)

  • Employee savings schemes


Education

  • Specialization Certification in employment, social security and social welfare law, 2002
  • Postgraduate degree (DESS-DJCE) in Business Law, University of Montpellier, 1993
  • Postgraduate degree (Magistère) in Business Law, University of Montpellier, 1993


Admitted to the bar

  • Hauts de Seine, 1994


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French I English


Teaching

  • Lecturer at the Business Law School of Montpellier
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