Aurélie Pacaud

Aurélie Pacaud is a Counsel in Gide's Technology, Media and Telecommunications team in Paris. She specialises in technology, personal data and media law.

She advises on IT projects (drafting and negotiating contracts) and on data protection (GDPR compliance, analysis of complex projects, data breach management, CNIL controls). She assists clients with their digital activities (artificial intelligence (AI), e-commerce), and in matters of image rights and copyright. She works on financing and other transactions relating to tech companies.

Aurélie has recently worked with biotech companies on high-stakes partnership contracts, on the raising of €15 million by Cure51, on the negotiation of an art direction contract for a luxury group, and on the sale by Société Générale of its subsidiary in Benin. Aurélie has also lectured on artificial intelligence and is working on compliance with the DORA regulation.

Aurélie is a graduate of the Universities of Paris II-Panthéon Assas (multimedia and IT law), Paris-Nanterre (French/Anglo-American law), and NYU (LLM). She has been a member of the New York Bar since 2013 and of the Paris Bar since 2014.