Gilles Podeur

Gilles Podeur is in charge of our Restructuring & Insolvency practice. He assists clients in connection with debt restructurings, insolvency proceedings, acquisitions of underperforming companies, acquisitions of going concerns in insolvency proceedings (“plans de cession”), enforcement of security interests, or liability claims. The matters he handles are often international.

Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2004, Gilles started his career at Gide, then he worked at White & Case, and finally at Clifford Chance, where he was appointed Counsel in 2012, before joining Alerion as a partner in 2020.

He is graduated from Sciences Po (1999, Economy and Finance Section), with a master’s degree in Business and Economic Law from University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne. He is the author of many publications in the field of insolvency law, and he speaks regularly at conferences and colloquia.

Gilles is a member of ARE (Association pour le Retournement des Entreprises), INSOL Europe and IFPPC (French Institute of Practitioners of Collective Insolvency Proceedings).