Margaux Goetz-Nectoux

Experience

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. 

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.

Specialty

MAGE Avocats, founded in 2025 by Margaux Goetz-Nectoux and Emilie Gatinea-Vittu, combines the energy of a young firm with the solid experience of its employment lawyers. Comprising two seasoned partners and an 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.

Margaux Goetz-Nectoux offers the following services for companies: 

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.).

Margaux Goetz-Nectoux offers the following services for executive directors (cadre dirigeants): 

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