Didier Lebon is a French Avocat, born in 1958 and was admitted to the Bar in 1987. He was a partner in Triplet & Associés, a French law firm based in Lille, Paris and London. He set up his own practice in July 2006. His practice represents foreign clients in a broad range of international commercial and corporate matters in France and in Europe.

Didier Lebon was educated in France and in England. After obtaining his law degree (licence en droit) at the University of Lille, he received a Maitrise en Droit in 1982. Then he obtained a postgraduate diploma at Lille University (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies in Private Law, 1983) which included research at the University of Warwick, England. After two years teaching law in the Ivory Coast, he received a second postgraduate degree at the University of Paris Sorbonne (Diplôme d’Etudes Approfondies in Private International Law and International Trade Law, 1986).

He has written academic works in private international law and has been a lecturer in this field at the University of Lille from 1986 to 1994. He currently teaches International Trade Law at a Business School in Lille (Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales (EDHEC) and at the University of Lille (School of Law).

In February 1999, he presented a paper in the United States, in Colorado, on “Forum and Applicable law in internet transactions” (now published in “Lawyering in the International market”, Transnational Publishers, Inc, New York, 1999).

Didier Lebon‘s practice areas are contract, distribution and franchise agreement, employment law, private international law, business and commercial law, dispute resolution and commercial litigation.