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Axelle Troubat

Tillerman Executive Search Partner

Partner

Axelle Troubat joined Tillerman Executive Search as a partner in 2023. She joined the firm’s Legal, Tax and Compliance department alongside Arnaud de Bonneville to assist and advise major law firms, SMEs, start-ups and large French and international groups. With extensive expertise in the wider legal environment, she is looking for partners, associates and senior managers with expert profiles and high potential.

Professional history

Axelle holds a Master 2 in innovation, communication and cultural law from the University of Paris I and a LLM in intellectual property and information technology from Fordham University in New York. She began her career as an intellectual property lawyer in 2007 in a major French law firm.

After several years in a law firm and experience as a legal advisor to public bodies at the Agence du Patrimoine Immatériel de l’Etat, she set up and developed the legal department of a major franchisor fast-food group, for which she performed certain HR functions.

In 2023, Axelle joined Tillerman Executive Search to support the Partners in their headhunting assignments across all the sectors and professions they handle. Given her legal knowledge and experience, she is particularly involved in the recruitment of Legal Directors, Lawyers, Director of social relations, DPOs, Tax Directors, Tax Experts and Associate and Partner Lawyers.

Expertise

Tailored support in recruiting legal and tax talent for law firms and the legal and tax departments of French and international groups (CAC 40, mid-cap companies, SMEs, start-ups) as well as investment funds.

Positions we recruit for

  • Partner solicitors, counsels and associates

  • Directors and legal managers, experienced solicitors

  • Compliance directors and managers, compliance officers

  • Tax directors and managers, specialist tax solicitors

  • Director of employee relations and experts in social dialogue

Areas of intervention

  • M&A / Corporate / Governance / Stock market law

  • Contract law and commercial litigation

  • Economic and competition law

  • Intellectual property and new technologies

  • Employment law

  • Tax law

  • Public law and environmental law

  • Compliance and business ethics

  • Arbitration and mediation

  • Criminal business law