Joanna Gumpelson

Practice Areas

Joanna Gumpelson’s main areas of expertise are insolvency proceedings and debt-restructuring.

She represents French and foreign investment funds, banks, as well as lease-finance and factoring institutions, bondholders or suppliers, etc. She also regularly represents French or foreign issuers, in particular in the context of failing LBOs.

She is also handling – jointly with partners of the litigation group headed by Paul Talbourdet – commercial, banking and finance litigation cases.

Career

She joined De Pardieu Brocas Maffei’s Restructuring & Insolvency team in 2002. She was appointed counsel in 2009, before being co-opted as Partner in 2014.

Professional Memberships

Member of the Paris Bar since 2002. Member of the Society of Turnaround Professionals (Association pour le Retournement des Entreprises - ARE).

Personal

She graduated from HEC Paris (2000) and holds an advanced degree (DESS) in Tax and Business law from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2000). Joanna Gumpelson was elected as “Lawyer of the Year 2017” by Best Lawyers in Restructuring and Reorganization Law, "Women Leaders for France" by IFLR1000 since 2018, as well as “Juriste HEC 2014”.

Vice Chair of the Financial Institutions Subcommittee IBA (2017-2018). She is also co-author of several articles in her practice areas.