ABOUT US
MAGE Avocats, founded in 2025, combines the energy of a young firm with the solid experience of its employment lawyers. Comprising two seasoned partners and two experienced associates, the firm supports its clients with rigor and enthusiasm, in French and English, to meet their challenges.
With offices in Paris and Lyon, MAGE Avocats focuses exclusively on employment law. The firm intervenes at every key stage in the life of a company, and is also a trusted partner for executive directors.
NepRiver de l’entreprise NepTech
Cliente de MGN Avocats
NepRiver de l’entreprise NepTech
Cliente de MGN Avocats
THE TEAM
Founded in April 2025 by Emilie Gatineau-Vittu and Margaux Goetz-Nectoux, the firm also benefits from the experience of two senior associates. It also relies on an ecosystem of carefully selected partners to meet all its clients’ needs.
Margaux Goetz-Nectoux
Founding Partner
After nearly ten years with the employment law teams of the business law firms Bredin Prat and CFM Avocats, where she worked for major French and international groups on a wide range of complex issues, Margaux Goetz-Nectoux founded her own firm, MGN Avocats, in June 2022. She then founded MAGE Avocats with Emilie Gatineau-Vittu in April 2025 to further develop her business and better serve her clients.
Margaux Goetz-Nectoux worked for almost ten years in the employment law teams of the business law firms Bredin Prat and then CFM Avocats, where she represented major French and international groups on a wide range of complex issues (company transfers, reorganizations, high-stakes individual litigation, cases involving the reclassification of commercial contracts as employment contracts on behalf of intermediation platforms, etc.).
Previously, Margaux Goetz-Nectoux worked as an employment law legal adviser for the Syntec Ingénierie trade federation. As a result, she is familiar with professional branches and has developed expertise specific to the SYNTEC collective agreement applicable to tech companies; expertise reinforced by the production, since 2018, of the annual report analysing the working time collective agreements signed each year by the companies of this sector.
Margaux Goetz-Nectoux went on to set up her own practice, and then joined forces with Emilie Gatineau-Vittu.
CAPA (2014)
Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I): Master 2 Juriste de Droit Social (apprenticeship) (2013)
Sciences Po Paris: Ecole de Droit, Master Carrières Juridiques et Judiciaires, summa cum laude (2012)
Academic exchange at Harvard College, Cambridge, USA (2009-2010)
Margaux Goetz-Nectoux has lived abroad (London and Boston) and is familiar with the Anglo-Saxon educational system (she studied at the Lycée Français de Londres, the Lycée International de Saint-Germain-en-Laye and Harvard University). She is fluent in English and enjoys working in this language for an international clientele.
Margaux Goetz-Nectoux taught the “Emergence of collaborative platforms: how to deal with litigation” course at the Paris Bar School for over four years.
Emilie Gatineau-Vittu
Founding Partner
After more than 14 years with the business law firms Winston and Strawn, then Bredin Prat, where she was most recently Counsel, she joined Margaux Goetz-Nectoux in 2025 to found MAGE Avocats and put her experience at the service of her clients.
She holds a Master 2 research degree in employment law from the Université Panthéon-Assas and a Certificate in English Law from Warwick University, and is a lecturer at the Université Catholique de Lille.
Emilie Gatineau-Vittu practiced for over 10 years with the business law firm Bredin Prat, where she met Margaux Goetz-Nectoux, whom she joined in 2025 to found MAGE Avocats.
Emilie assists companies in all aspects of labor law, with particular expertise in the issues that can arise in connection with mergers & acquisitions and restructuring operations. Her expertise encompasses the negotiation of labor-related aspects in transaction documentation, the preparation and implementation of information-consultation procedures for the Works Council, and the analysis of the impact of these operations on individual status, as well as on collective status, which may require harmonization/renegotiation.
Emilie also assists her clients with the structuring of executive contracts and remuneration.
She is also involved in topics relating to employee savings and working time, for which she is a lecturer in M2 DGRH at the Université Catholique de Lille.
CAPA (2009)
Panthéon-Assas (Paris II) : Master 2 in labor law
University exchange at Warwick Univesity (England) (2005-2006) – certificate in English Law
University of Lille 2: Bachelor’s degree in private law
Emilie Gatineau-Vittu has lived abroad (England), where she gained a thorough understanding of the common law legal system. She regularly works in English and knows how to anticipate the needs and expectations of an international clientele, whether or not they are familiar with the specifics of French labor law.
Since 2024, Emilie Gatineau-Vittu has been teaching a course on working time regulation in the M2 DGRH program at the Université Catholique de Lille. She also gives occasional courses at the EFB, where she has taught a course on moral harassement and labor issues of M&A transaction.
Nadia Ismaïl
Senior Associate
Nadia Ismaïl was sworn in as a lawyer in 2006 and practiced within the employment law team of the Racine business law firm, before joining BRL, a firm specializing in employment law. Nadia Ismaïl joined MGN Avocats in March 2023. She is also a regular contributor to France’s leading legal information publications for legal professionals, and teaches law courses on various Lyon campuses.
Nadia Ismaïl was sworn in as a lawyer in 2006 and worked in the employment law team of the Racine business law firm, before joining BRL, a firm specializing in employment law, as an associate.
She worked with a clientele consisting mainly of small and medium size companies in a variety of sectors, as well as public industrial and commercial establishments in the cultural sector, on a wide range of issues relating to both individual employment law (drafting employment contracts – amendments, termination procedures, severance negotiations and individual litigation) and collective labor law (drafting collective agreements, compliance, collective litigation).
Nadia Ismaïl joined MGN Avocats in March 2023 and then continued her career with MAGE Avocats.
CAPA – EFB Paris (2006)
CRFPA – IEJ PARIS XII (2004)
DESS in business law – PARIS XII (2004)
Nadia Ismaïl has been a regular freelance writer for Lamy Liaisons, France’s leading provider of legal information for legal professionals, since 2013. In this capacity, she takes part in writing and updating the legal content of the Lamy and Liaisons Sociales document collections. She has also participated in the total rewriting of certain studies for Editions Législatives.
Nadia Ismaïl teaches law at the Lyon campus of Burgundy Business School in the Bachelor’s program. She has also taught labor law at the Lyon campus of the Institut Supérieur du Droit in the Master’s program.
Anne Baujard
Senior Associate
Anne Baujard has been a member of the Lyon Bar since 2012.
She worked as an associate in the employment law department of SAONE RHONE AVOCATS, where she was mainly responsible for handling litigation cases, and then at BDO AVOCATS, a firm specializing in optimizing occupational injury and disease contribution rates, before joining MAGE AVOCATS in April 2025.
Anne Baujard advises and litigates on behalf of a clientele made up mainly of companies, and has developed in-depth expertise in occupational risk management.
Anne Baujard was sworn in as a lawyer in 2012 and worked as an associate in the employment law department of Saône Rhône Avocats before joining BDO AVOCATS, a firm specializing in the optimization of occupational injury and disease contribution rates.
She was mainly in charge of handling litigation files for a clientele consisting of companies.
Anne Baujard’s practice focuses exclusively on employment law, in both advisory and litigation roles, and she has developed in-depth expertise in occupational risk management (contestation of work-related accidents, occupational illnesses and disability rates).
CAPA – EDARA Lyon (2012)
CRFPA – Lyon (2010)
Master II DDJCE – Nancy (2010)
Our values
and commitments
The firm is a trusted partner for its clients and works
in their best interests by offering them
Availability
Dynamism
Pragmatism
Technicity
&
accessibility
determination
pedagogy
rigor
Our ecosystem
MAGE Avocats regularly collaborates with peers in all specialties (particularly corporate and tax), as well as with human resources and labor relations consulting firms, to meet all the needs of its corporate clients.
With the aim of meeting all the needs of its executive clients and providing them with the most complete picture possible of their situation, the firm regularly collaborates with peers specializing in wealth taxation, as well as with PBO Conseil, which provides administrative support and information on the rights of executives and managers registered with France Travail, as well as on their pension rights (https://www.pboconseil.com).
Emilie Gatineau-Vittu and Margaux Goetz-Nectoux are members of the Bredin Prat alumni network. Margaux Goetz-Nectoux is also a member of the Elles&Droit network of Sciences Po Law School alumni, and regularly takes part in the Rendez-vous des Entrepreneures organized by the Femmes & Société group of Sciences Po alumni.
YOUR NEEDS
Individual labor relations :
- Conclusion of employment contracts: drafting and securing employment contracts, questions relating to trial periods, non-competition clauses, etc.
- Performance of the employment contract: questions relating to remuneration, working time, health and safety; implementation of disciplinary procedures, etc.
- Termination of employment contracts: assistance with termination for personal or economic reasons, negotiation of amicable departures, assistance with the conclusion of settlement agreements, etc.
- Executive contracts: coexistence of an employment contract and a corporate mandate, executive compensation, social protection, etc.
- Labour litigation (reclassification, harassment, discrimination, overtime, etc.)
Collective labor relations :
- Support in analyzing and setting up the relevant employee representative bodies (Works Council, Group Committee, European Committee, etc.)
- Support for the implementation of information-consultation procedures for Works Councils
- Negotiation of collective agreements (working time, employee savings schemes, etc.)
- Compliance due diligence
Corporate reorganization and restructuring:
- Support for reflection on project strategy and timetable
- Preparation of documentation: Works Council information-consultation document, unilateral document in the event of a social plan, collective agreements, collective voluntary departure plan.
- Preparing and monitoring information-consultation for the Works Council
Supporting M&A operations:
- Due diligence / social audits
- Review of social aspects of contractual documentation (Mergers/Acquisitions/Spin-Offs/PBOs, Mergers)
- Information/consultation of employee representative bodies
- Support in carrying out the operation (transfer of contracts, renegotiation of collective articles of association, future of employee representative bodies, future of savings plans, etc.).
- Review of draft employment contracts and advice on mobility, promotions, etc.
- Assistance with departure negotiations
- Representation before the relevant courts in the event of litigation
- Drafting of the branch’s report on agreements reached on working time within companies in the branch over the past year.
- Legal hotline for members: questions relating to the application of the collective bargaining agreement or, more generally, employment law.
OUR FEES
Depending on the type of case, fees can be set as follows:
- On a flat-rate basis ;
- On the basis of an hourly rate determined in particular according to the characteristics of the case (technical difficulty, business stakes for the client, urgency, etc.) and the type of client (individual or corporate, etc.);
- On the basis of a fixed fee plus a success fee (this method is mainly used for employees in the event of litigation or negotiation of departure).
Companies can also set up a subscription for recurring needs, providing day-to-day support for managers and/or HR teams.
In all cases, a fee agreement is signed at the beginning of the mission.
Contact us
To be as close as possible to its clients,
the firm welcomes them in Paris or Lyon.
Addresses
26 Rue du 4 Septembre – 75002 Paris
49, Cours Vitton – 69006 Lyon
