Team

Three partners, with varied paths covering the different facets of the insurance industry: large business law firms, the supervisory authority, insurance companies (legal and operational management).

Xavier Périnne Founding partner (Avocat au barreau de Paris)
- Paris Bar (sworn in on 10 January 1990)
- Luxembourg Bar, List IV (practising under his home-country professional title, “Avocat (France)”), since 13 February 2014
Founder of the firm, Xavier Périnne advises life insurers and their distribution networks, in France and Luxembourg.
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Vincent Bourgoin Partner (Avocat au barreau de Paris)
- Paris Bar (sworn in on 12 January 2012)
Vincent Bourgoin knows life insurance from the side of the supervisory authority, the private bank and the insurer.
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Thierry Kouandjeu Partner (Avocat au barreau de Paris)
- Paris Bar (sworn in in 2000)
Thierry Kouandjeu returns to the firm, which he knew from its foundation, after some fifteen years with insurance companies, in general counsel and then general management roles.
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In Luxembourg

Maître Jean-François Steichen, Avocat à la Cour, is the firm’s partner in Luxembourg. His practice shares our offices in Luxembourg, and we work with it on matters of Luxembourg law. Xavier Périnne is also registered with the Luxembourg Bar, under his home-country title “Avocat (France)”; Vincent Bourgoin and Thierry Kouandjeu work from the Paris office.

Jean-François Steichen

Partner in Luxembourg · Avocat à la Cour

Admitted to the Luxembourg Bar in 2002, Jean-François Steichen is the firm’s partner in Luxembourg. He advises on banking and financial law, in particular insurance law: transactions involving insurance and reinsurance undertakings, regulatory matters, intermediaries, contracts and cross-border business. He also handles civil, company and commercial law, and litigation. In 2018 he was appointed chairman of the Conseil supérieur de la mutualité in Luxembourg.

Maîtrise en droit (Université Robert-Schuman, Strasbourg), LL.M. (King’s College London), DEA in French-language business law (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), DES in economic law (UCLouvain).

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