Hélène Bourgine

[ MANAGING PARTNER ]

Hélène Bourgine cofounded Aliénor Avocats in 2010 after having spent 12-years as legal counsel within VINCI’s major projects department. She is now the managing partner of the firm.

Ranked in 2023 by Legal 500 EMEA in the “Hall of Fame” and recognised in Best Lawyers as one of the best French lawyers in the Construction field, Hélène has developed throughout her career a proven expertise in legal and contractual management, in France and abroad, throughout the life of major construction projects.

Furthermore, Hélène has acquired extensive experience in amicable dispute resolution (conciliation, mediation), as well as in dispute resolution before the French civil and administrative courts and international arbitration overseas.

Finally, she has been assisting clients for over 13 years by providing their project and operations managers with theoretical and practical legal training (risk analysis, French and international building contract management based on real-life cases).

LANGUAGES: French, English

ASSOCIATIONS: AFA (Association for Arbitration), French Committee of the International Chamber of Commerce