Her support covers the entire legal cycle of these transactions: investment agreements, shareholders’ agreements, management packages, intra-group agreements, governance and corporate bodies, equity reorganisations.

Beyond legal engineering, she acts as a strategic advisor to executives — on the reading of their transactions, the sequencing of decisions and the dynamics specific to each company.

She has solid expertise in advising family businesses as well as innovative companies on their transmission, structuring, growth and transformation challenges.

Family Businesses & Living Heritage

Valérie advises French family businesses, maisons and manufactures with a strong identity, as well as French players in tourism and hospitality committed to preserving and passing on their know-how.

She has recognised expertise in supporting intergenerational transmissions and in implementing high-performing and sustainable governance structures, designed as levers for strategic continuity, wealth structuring and business development.

Innovative Companies & Industries in Transition

Valérie also advises innovative companies as well as industrial and technological players engaged in transition trajectories, particularly in the sectors of new energies, decarbonised heavy mobility — notably in maritime and inland waterway transport, and port activities — and responsible technologies.

Commitments

Founder in 2016 of the Cl’Hub by MMlaw, Valérie develops support and networking initiatives dedicated to executives, entrepreneurs and companies in transition.

« Change Leader » within MMlaw under the United Nations Global Compact – France, she contributes to embedding responsibility, governance and sustainability issues into the firm’s strategy and daily life.

Ambassador of the EPV Excellence Network — Contract, Hospitality and Luxury vertical, Valérie works to promote manufactures and workshops certified as Entreprise du Patrimoine Vivant (Living Heritage Company), and to foster their dialogue with architects, designers and hospitality operators who shape the French art of hosting.

A member of the Women’s International Shipping and Trading Association France (WISTA France), a network bringing together women in senior positions in maritime transport and its related activities (shipowning, brokerage, finance, insurance, law, ports, public authorities), Valérie is committed to promoting the place and role of women in order to strengthen gender diversity, a decisive lever for performance, attractiveness and sustainable transformation in the French maritime sector.