Business law
Corporate structuring and legal support for companies, including France・Japan matters and support for innovative startups.
Attorney at law・Rennes Bar, France
Jean Moulin
Business law, international contracts and intellectual property. A practice built for the long horizon of established companies and the urgency of ventures just getting started.
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Profile
A business lawyer working across two legal cultures
As a French attorney focused on business law, I advise companies of every size, from established groups to industrial SMEs and early-stage technology ventures, on structuring their operations, securing their contracts and executing their transactions.
My career began in Tokyo, in 2012. I kept from those years a way of working: precision in the detail, patience in negotiation, as much care for the relationship as for the contract. Back in Rennes, I built my practice around innovative companies, without ever losing sight of Japan.
My practice rests on a simple conviction: the law is only useful when it is intelligible. Every matter receives a clear written analysis, ranked options and a recommendation I stand behind, without unnecessary jargon.
I teach corporate law to Master 2 students at the law faculty. Teaching left me with a taste for passing things on: explaining a mechanism until it looks obvious. I supervise the work of lawyers, legal professionals and trainees, and deliver training to executives and in-house teams.
I work in French, English and Japanese.
- Bar
- Rennes, France
- Path
- Tokyo・Rennes
- Working languages
- English · Français · 日本語
- Services
- Advisory, negotiation, commercial litigation
- Teaching
- Corporate law, Master 2
Practice areas
Three areas of practice
The full range of business law, with one common thread: innovation, startups and France・Japan matters.
International contracts
Cross-border contract negotiation and drafting, M&A transactions, commercial and industrial partnership agreements.
Intellectual property
Trademark and copyright protection, licensing agreements, legal safeguarding of innovation, IP clauses in fundraising transactions.
Startups & Innovation
From incorporation to fundraising
Advising an innovative company means understanding its product, its market and its investors' timeline as much as its law. I work alongside founders at every stage of that trajectory.
Incorporation and governance
Choice of corporate form, articles of association, shareholders' agreements, cap table design, exit and pre-emption clauses, governance bodies.
Financing
SAFEs, convertible notes, capital increases, term sheets, BSPCE and incentive plans, vendor due diligence preparation.
Data and cybersecurity
GDPR compliance, data processing agreements, readiness for NIS2 requirements and the EBIOS RM method, security clauses in SaaS contracts.
Meeting investor expectations
Putting corporate and contractual records in order, mapping intellectual property ownership, resolving issues raised in due diligence.
Selected engagements
- Drafting the shareholders' agreement and implementing a BSPCE plan for an early-stage deeptech company.
- Negotiating a Series A round: term sheet, capital increase and investment documentation for a software vendor.
- Securing the chain of title to intellectual property ahead of a financing round.
- Managing the French establishment of a foreign group's subsidiary: incorporation, governance, commercial leases and operating contracts.
- Advising a cybersecurity software vendor on customer contracts, licensing and regulatory compliance.
- Drafting a technology licensing agreement and the confidentiality arrangements framing a joint research project.
France・Japan
Advising on projects between France and Japan
Working between Paris, Rennes and Tokyo is not a matter of translating contracts. It means bringing two negotiating cultures, two views of risk and two decision-making rhythms into alignment.
Japanese companies establishing in France
Incorporating subsidiaries and branches, choosing the right structure, commercial leases, first hires and French employment contracts, relationships with local partners.
French companies working with Japan
Distribution, joint ventures, licensing and technology transfer agreements, industrial partnerships, trademark protection on the Japanese market.
Negotiation culture
Preparing meetings, working with nemawashi and internal approval cycles, drafting letters of intent that meet both sides' expectations.
Japanese startups in Europe
Supporting young Japanese companies entering the European market: legal vehicle, GDPR compliance, intellectual property, fundraising from European investors.
A well-negotiated France・Japan contract is one that both parties read the same way.
- Working languages
- English · Français (native) · 日本語
Contact
Write to the practice
For a first approach, a brief outline of your situation and your timeline is enough. You will receive a reply as promptly as possible.
- jean.moulin@avocat.fr
- Address
- 3, rue Louis Braille
35136 Saint-Jacques-de-la-Lande
France