Paul Clair has been a partner at Ogletree Deakins since January 1, 2025.
With over 15 years of experience, he assists both large international groups and French private and public or semi-public companies, providing advice and litigation support in all phases of the employment relationship with their employees, from hiring to contract termination.
He has developed solid expertise in defining HR strategies and implementing immediate reorganization operations (collective redundancies for economic reasons, employment protection plans, negotiation of collective termination agreements) and planned reorganization operations (negotiation of GEPC/GPEC agreements), business divestitures, and company transfers, benefiting both French and international groups.
Paul also advises numerous French companies on HR measures aimed at enhancing their competitiveness (work time arrangements, profit-sharing agreements, redeployment of staff within a geographic area).
At the beginning of his career, he worked for nearly a year at a law firm specializing in immigration and international mobility law in New York, then for 5 years at a law firm specializing in labor law, and for over 7 years in the labor law department of August Debouzy as a senior associate before joining Ogletree Deakins Paris office in 2022 as Counsel.
Paul is a member of the Association of Corporate Lawyers in Labor & Employment Law (Avosial), he leads conferences on social and case law updates, and has been a cornerstone of the firm’s Labor & Employment Law Club “Club du Droit Social” since its inception.
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