Partner
Jean-Jacques Uettwiller
Who am I?
Following a career in the private sector and in law firms, I founded UGGC Avocats – with other lawyers – in 1993.
From the onset, my foremost speciality is the law of company transfers (what some posers call M&A), providing advice or assisting with litigation, but also deal with the management of the personal assets of wealthy families and I am involved in arbitration, international in particular.
I am also involved in professional associations and organisations (ACE…) and I am currently President of the UIA.
UGGC and I
After many years I still enjoy doing my job as a lawyer with the same pleasure because it is different from other jobs in that you can deal with a case from start to finish.
This is probably a satisfaction which is common to all lawyers but what I am personally proud of, apart from creating this firm, is to meet former interns, 10 or 20 years on, and to hear them say what pleasure they had working with us.
My practice
I am particularly involved in the agri-food and public work sectors, but my job encompasses a much broader area than these sectors. In fact, my practice is both international and multidisciplinary at the same time since it covers international arbitration as well as transactions governed by OHADA law or more traditional transactions of business law.
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Careers and professional distinctions
2017
Former President, Foreign Investments Commission, UIA
2012-2014
Member of the Bar Council
2006-2008
Member, Board, Conseil National des Barreaux
2003-2005
President of the Prospective Commission of Conseil National des Barreaux (National Bars Council)
2004
Honorary President, Association des Avocats Conseils d’Entreprise (ACE)
1996-2002
Former President, Foreign Investments Commission, UIA
1993
Partner and cofounder of UGGC Law Firm
1987-1993
Partner, Berlioz & Co
1986
Admitted to the Paris Bar
1982-1986
General counsel, Bongrain Group
1975-1982
General counsel, Groupe Revillon
1970-1975
- Senior executive officer, Société Nancéienne et Varin Bernier
- Certificates of Specialisation: Corporate Law and Tax Law
- Expert IFEJI (Institut Français d’Experts Juridiques Internationaux)
- Postgraduate Degree (DES) in Civil Law
- Laureate, Paris X-Nanterre Law School
- ICC Arbitrator
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