Bredin Prat

Employment Law

Partner

Pascale Lagesse, Partner, leads the Employment Law team. She advises corporate clients on all aspects of employment law.

Her practice covers employee representation and collective bargaining, restructurings and mass layoff plans, compensation plans, mandatory and optional profit-sharing plans, as well as executive employment arrangements and international mobility (expatriation/secondment).

She advises clients involved in mergers and acquisitions and reorganizations, as well as on issues related to staff representatives, the negotiation and signature of collective agreements, employee performance review systems, workplace rights and new forms of employment related to the digital economy.

Pascale is a seasoned litigator with significant experience defending clients in both individual disputes and complex collective disputes with unions, works councils and other employee representative bodies.

She is active in a variety of legal organizations and is currently Co-Chair of the International Bar Association’s Global Employment Institute and Course Director for Labor Law Studies at the Paris Bar School.

Prior to joining Bredin Prat, she served as the head of the Employment, Pensions and Benefits practice of a leading Magic Circle firm. 

In 2021, she was promoted Deputy treasurer of  the International Bar Association (IBA), under the presidency of Sternford Moyo.

French, English

Admitted to the Paris Bar (1989)

Pascale Lagesse is a graduate of the University of Paris 2 Panthéon-Assas (Maîtrise in judicial practice) and the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (DEA in Private Law).