Alexandre Sauveplane

alex@baileyduquette.com
T.: +1 212.658.1946 Ext. 207
Austin, New York

Alex Sauveplane is a corporate litigation and transactional attorney, advising both institutional and emerging companies as well as individuals on a wide-range of corporate and commercial matters.  

He maintains an international focus to his practice, working on cross-border matters involving parties from, or dealing with the markets of, Canada, Europe and Latin America. Alex serves as U.S. counsel to a number of foreign companies, assisting in the development and implementation of their multinational corporate structures, organizing and expanding their international operations, achieving their U.S. business initiatives and raising capital. He acts as outside general counsel to numerous start-up companies, advising founders on the day-to-day legal, strategic, and risk management issues that face growing businesses.

He is well versed in domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, strategic transactions, company formation and capitalization, corporate governance, equity and debt financings, contract negotiation, U.S. market entry, regulatory and compliance programs (including GDPR and CCPA compliance), and privacy and data security.

Alex also negotiates for and advocates on behalf of clients on a wide range of commercial disputes before U.S. state and federal courts and in international and domestic arbitrations under the rules of the AAA/ICDR, ICC and UNCITRAL. Representative subject matters include: corporate governance, breach of contract claims, business torts, securities, shareholder/partnership disputes, fiduciary duties, indemnification claims, defamation and invasion of privacy actions, and employment-related disputes.

Before joining Bailey Duquette, Alex worked for another New York-based boutique law firm where he gained experience in general corporate law and advised private businesses, private equity funds, and investors on strategic transactions and investments. Prior to that, he worked in Paris and Mexico City in the international arbitration teams of major global law firms, representing corporations and state entities on sensitive commercial and investment disputes. 

Alex is a native English and French speaker and is professionally proficient in Spanish having previously lived and worked in both Colombia and Mexico.

He is trained in the common and civil law traditions, graduating with a dual B.C.L./LL.B degree from McGill University, Faculty of Law where he majored in Commercial Negotiation and Dispute Resolution. During law school, Alex founded the McGill Arbitration Society and was a Senior Manager of the McGill Law Journal. 

Education 

McGill University Faculty of Law (LL.B/J.D. - Common Law)
McGill University Faculty of Law (B.C.L. - Civil Law)
University of Western Ontario (B.A.)

Bar Admission

U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York
U.S. District Court, Eastern District of New York
New York

Other Languages

French (Fluent)
Spanish (Professional proficiency oral and written)