The team
A close-knit, skilled and available team.
Trained in the best French, English and American universities, the firm’s lawyers have specifically trained in the laws of intellectual property and new technologies.
The firm’s partners have all practiced in major international firms before creating Amar Goussu Staub.
All the lawyers of the firm have a considerable practice of international actions as well as relationships with international clients. They work and plead in English as well as in French.
Cyrille Amar
Cyrille Amar practices law at the Paris Bar since 2000. Before that he spent nine years as in-house counsel in the Philips group where he was the General Counsel of the mobile telephony division. In 2003 he co-founded the firm that became in 2017 Amar Goussu Staub.
Cyrille has an extensive experience in intellectual property, with a particular focus on the telecommunication industry, and represents clients from all industrial property sectors.
Cyrille has an extensive practice of IP transactions, strategic IP advice and IP litigation before French and European courts. He acquired a broad experience of international arbitration in relation to patents, notably FRAND licenses. Cyrille also has an in-depth expertise of infringement, invalidity, and unfair competition actions as well as licensing, development, distribution and IT services agreements disputes.
Cyrille Amar graduated from Sciences Po Paris, ESSEC Business School and the Universities of Lyon, Exeter and Aix-en-Provence.
Contact: +33 1 55 35 05 35 cyrille.amar@amar.law
Antonin Staub
Antonin Staub practices law at the Paris Bar since 2003. Before joining Amar Goussu Staub in 2010 Antonin had been an associate in major international law firms.
Antonin has an extensive experience in the negotiation and monitoring of products and services sales agreements, notably for the IT and electronics industries.
Antonin also has a comprehensive practice of international commercial operations, joint-ventures and R&D consortiums notably between private and public stakeholders.
While many of his clients are IT, electronics, defense and security stakeholders, Antonin also advises clients in the optical, energy, transports, health, biotechnologies, and internet or reinsurance sectors. Antonin advises mostly on intellectual property law, obligations, IT law and personal data law.
Antonin Staub teaches at Université Paris 4 CELSA (École des Hautes Etudes en Sciences de l’Information et de la Communication) and is a member of the AFDIT (Association Française de Droit de l’Informatique et de la Télécommunication).
Contact: +33 1 55 35 05 35 antonin.staub@amar.law
Anne-Lyne Roche
Anne-Lyne has been a solicitor since 2005 and joined Amar Goussu Staub as a partner in 2017. She is responsible for the Lyon office.
Anne-Lyne specialises in intellectual property law, digital law and personal data protection.
In these fields, she advises and assists major French and international companies, as well as SMEs, ETIs and entrepreneurs, in defining their strategic orientations, drafting and negotiating their contracts, and litigating.
She has developed particular expertise in the fashion and luxury goods, culture, consumer goods and IT sectors.
Her secondment to the in-house team of a leading luxury company enabled her to gain an in-depth understanding and knowledge of her clients’ issues.
Anne-Lyne is also a lecturer at the University of Lyon II.
Anne-Lyne graduated from the University of Paris XI (Master 2 in Cultural Heritage Law, 2003), the University of Toulouse (Master 2 in International Law – International Business Law, 2001) and the University of Kent (Master 1 in European Law and Diploma in English Law, 2000). She also holds a CNAM Data Protection Officer certificate (2021).
Contact: +33 1 55 35 05 35 roche@amar.law
Grégoire Goussu
Grégoire Goussu practices law at the Paris Bar since 1993. Before joining Amar Goussu Staub in 2010, Grégoire had been a partner in major international law firms.
Grégoire has a particular focus on IP and unfair competition litigation. He also has extensive experience in the negotiation of commercial contracts.
Grégoire handles patent, trademark and design infringement actions as well as identity claims, and trade secrets actions. Grégoire also regularly advises on distribution law.
While many of his clients are automotive, electronics, energy, fashion, agribusiness, and toy industry stakeholders, Grégoire advises too clients in the pharmaceutical, health and biotechnologies sectors.
Grégoire Goussu graduated from Science Po Paris, HEC Paris and the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies.
Contact: +33 1 55 35 05 35 gregoire.goussu@amar.law
Louise Amar
Louise Amar joined Amar Goussu Staub in 2013 where she successfully launched the UPC Blog in 2013.
Louise became a junior lawyer at Amar Goussu Staub in 2016 after engaging in academic research at the University of Kent and Birckbek University of London, where she also taught different areas of law.
Louise works on issues related to patents declared essential to mobile telecommunication standards and FRAND licenses as well as commercial and IP contracts. Louise participates to actions before French courts as well as in cross-border projects and international arbitration. As the main contributor to the UPC Blog, Louise has acquired expert knowledge on the Unified Patent Court and the Unitary Patent.
Louise Amar completed her Legal Practice Course at BBP Holborn in 2015. Louise graduated from SOAS University of London with an LLM in Law Development and Governance (2010), and from the University of Kent in partnership with the University Paris I Panthéon Sorbonne with an LLB in English and French Law and a French License en Droit (2009).
Contact: +33 1 55 35 05 35 louise.amar@amar.law
Florence Monteret-Amar
Florence Monteret-Amar has been a lawyer at the Paris Bar since 1996. She specializes in civil liability law, liability law for defective products, medical, pharmaceutical and veterinary law, insurance law, social security law ( ATMP – FIE), social protection law and bodily injury compensation law.
She has recognized expertise in asbestos litigation, and that of vaccination
Laure Melain
Laure joined Cabinet Amar Goussu Staub as an associate in 2023.
Since then, her practice has focused on intellectual property law (in particular trademarks, domain names and patents), commercial and debt recovery law, and personal data.
Laure speaks fluent French and English.
Laure was admitted to the Paris Bar in February 2023. She is a graduate of the Centre for International Intellectual Property Studies of the University of Strasbourg (Master 2 in Intellectual Property and International Trade). During her studies, she also spent a year as an exchange student at Sookmyung University for Women in Seoul, South Korea.
Contact: +33 1 55 35 05 35 – laure.melain@amar.law