Avi Bitton

Lawyer – Managing Partner

Expertise

Employment Law for Managers and Executives

$Severance agreement: 'rupture conventionnelle'
$Dismissal: gross negligence ('faute grave'), redundancy plan...
$Harassment (psychological or sexual), discrimination (gender, motherhood…)
$Burn-out
$Compensation: damages, LTI / RSU / Stock-Options

Education

Master of Law (LLM) in Banking and Finance Law, London School of Economics
Postgraduate degree in French and European business law, Magistère in private and public business law, University of Sorbonne

Experience

Former Lawyer associate of Clifford Chance LLP, banking and finance team
Former Lecturer in Law (Employment Law, Criminal Law), University of Sorbonne

Languages

English

Professional organisations

Member of the Disciplinary Council for Lawyers of the Paris Bar (2013, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023)
Member of the Commission of professional ethics of the Paris Bar Council (2020).
Member of the Commission of direct taxes of the Ministry of Finances (Paris region)
Member of the Board of Examiners of the Paris Bar School (2017, 2018 and 2019)
Former elected Representative of the National Council of the Bars – official authority of the French bars (mandates 2012-2014 and 2015-2017)
Former elected Representative of the Bar Council – regulatory and disciplinary authority of the Paris Bar (mandates 2010-2012 and 2013-2015)
Member of the European Criminal Bar Association (ECBA) andof the European Fraud and Compliance Lawyers (EFCL).

Public affairs

Avi Bitton is often consulted by the French Government on bills of laws:

Hearing with the Assemblée nationale (French Parliament) on a bill on sex crimes (19th December 2017).
Hearing with the Ministry of Justice on a bill on legal aid for terrorists (28th Novermber 2017).
Hearing with the Ministry of Employment on a reform of the Labor Code (26th July 2017).

Press and media

« Les plans sociaux déguisés se multiplient dans les entreprises » Le Monde, 1^er juillet 2026
« Espionnage en télétravail : votre employeur a-t-il le droit de surveiller les mouvements de votre souris ? », Capital 6 juin 2026
« C'est la période des entretiens annuels, pourquoi cet échange est loin d'être anodin pour un collaborateur », Capital 19 janvier 2026
« Avi Bitton, l’enfant terrible du droit du travail », Le Point, 29 décembre 2025
« Does French Law Prohibit Employees of the Same Company from Being in a Relationship? », Le Figaro, 22 septembre 2025
« Affaire Nestlé : et en France, est-il interdit d’avoir une liaison entre collègues ? », Challenges, 4 septembre 2025
« Le droit français interdit-il à des salariés de la même entreprise d’entretenir une relation intime ? », Le Figaro, 2 septembre 2025
« Quand une Kiss Cam fait tomber un PDG : ce que dit l’affaire Astronomer sur la rigueur américaine au travail », Madame Figaro, 22 juillet 2025
« Moët Hennessy sexual harassment case shines light on company’s culture », Financial Times, 10 Juillet 2025

Referrals Avi Bitton Lawyer

Avi Bitton is made of a team “very reactive, capable of providing astute advice and to anticipate the other party’s defence in sensitive disputes, including in criminal employment law”. The firm represents managers and directors of larges companies and shows a very high rate of success in its cases. The team also assists companies. The team is composed of: Avi Bitton, a ‘strategist mind, combative and passionate about employment law, who shows a real empathy to help his clients’, Laetitia Lencione. The firm is also ‘a combative option for tricky and difficult criminal cases’ with Avi Bitton and Nelson de Oliveira.

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