Gaël Peyneau
Founding Partner
Main areas
- Contract law
- Corporate law and shareholder disputes
- Directors’ liability
- Commercial and professional leases
- Banking and finance disputes
- Debt recovery
Profile
Gaël Peyneau practises corporate, contract and commercial lease law, both advisory and contentious, drawing on more than ten years spent running businesses.
Gaël Peyneau has practised as an avocat since 2004.
Before joining the profession, he spent more than ten years running businesses in a range of sectors.
After starting out at Simon & Associés, he set up his own firm in 2007, focusing on corporate, contract and commercial lease law, both advisory and contentious.
He also holds a licence as a real estate agent.
He has taught contract and tort law at Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University.
He is a graduate of Paris II Panthéon-Assas University, where he completed Professor Hervé Synvet’s postgraduate programme (DEA) in business law.
News and insights
API access on a global platform: Paris court penalises an abrupt price rise
Acting for AgoraPulse, the firm won findings of partial abrupt termination and significant imbalance, with the court keeping the case despite a clause giving jurisdiction to the Irish courts.
The 50/50 partnership: an explosive model? The Vilebrequin case
Gaël Peyneau and Hector Gitton-Quent, in Opinion Internationale, on the right questions to ask before going into business as equal partners.
Paris 2024: restaurants and shops should prepare their compensation claims now
Businesses hit by the Games’ security measures will have to prove abnormal and special loss. An opinion piece by Gaël Peyneau.
