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Osborne Clarke has reshuffled its management team in Paris, changing managing partners and adding a chief operating officer six years after its opening.

Béatrice Delmas-Linel, an IT/IP specialist and founding partner of the Paris office, has handed the managing partner reins to two other founding partners, Catherine Olive and Maxime Pigeon, according to a statement by the firm.

Olive, a corporate and M&A specialist, practiced for 20 years at Landwell & Associés prior to leaving to help form Osborne Clarke Paris in 2014. Landwell became part of PwC Société d'Avocats in 2015.

Pigeon, a labor specialist, joined Osborne Clarke Paris from Baker McKenzie, where he practiced for 13 years, rising to local partner. Pigeon also serves as president of the legal advisory board of the LFP, the governing body of the French professional football league.

"I am pleased to pass on the baton to my partners, in accordance with the promise I made to carry out the project for its launching phase," Delmas-Linel said in a statement. "I am committed to invest even more within the firm in the areas of innovation and digital transformation that I am passionate about."

"We warmly thank Béatrice for having been the torch bearer since the launch and for enthusiastically supporting the evolution of the roles," Olive said in a statement. 

In addition to continuing her practice, Delmas-Linel joins a newly created strategic committee that includes partners David Haccoun, a corporate/M&A specialist; Alexandre Le Mière, a litigation specialist, and Xavier Pican, an IT specialist, the firm said.

"Needs and expectations of our clients are evolving exponentially, and we need to be proactive," Pigeon said in a statement, noting the "multiple challenges of digital, societal and environmental transformation."

"Our story continues in line with the success of the past six years, in an agile and forward-looking mode" and "in an environment where disruption has become the norm," Olive added.

Osborne Clarke also announced that Laldja Baaziz had joined the office as chief operating officer, a position she held for more than seven years at LPA-CGR, which was created by the merger of French legacy firms Lefèvre Pelletier and CGR Legal in 2016.

Osborne Clarke Paris has more than 60 lawyers, including 13 partners, the firm said. 

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