Céline LEROY

About Céline LEROY

Céline Leroy serves as General Counsel at Exail Technologies, where she is part of the group’s executive leadership team. Her role is central in a listed industrial technology company operating at the intersection of maritime robotics, navigation systems, defense and civilian applications. In that environment, the General Counsel function is not limited to legal review: it also supports governance, compliance, risk management, capital-market matters and the legal structuring of strategic decisions. Her career reflects a strong background in French and international business law. According to Exail Technologies’ universal registration document, she previously worked as a lawyer at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, one of the leading business law firms, first in the Finance department and then in the M&A practice. That experience gave her a solid command of complex financing transactions, corporate restructurings and merger-and-acquisition work. She also spent one year on secondment in Danone’s legal department, an experience that broadened her understanding of the legal challenges faced by a large multinational group. Céline Leroy’s relationship with Exail is long-standing and particularly meaningful. She served as Legal Director of the company, then known as Groupe Gorgé and later Exail Technologies, from 2007 to early 2023. This long tenure means she has been closely involved in the company’s evolution over many years, building deep institutional knowledge of its businesses, governance framework and strategic transformation. Her background is therefore both legal and operational, with a detailed understanding of the company’s industrial and corporate trajectory. She later took on a senior legal role at Gorgé SA, the reference shareholder of the group, where she became General Counsel. Exail’s corporate governance documents also show her ongoing involvement in the governance ecosystem of the broader group, underscoring her familiarity with board-level matters and shareholder relations. Céline Leroy holds the CAPA qualification and a postgraduate degree in business law and taxation from Université Paris I. Her profile combines technical legal expertise, capital-markets awareness and long-term corporate experience. For a company like Exail Technologies, which operates in highly regulated, technology-intensive and international markets, her contribution is especially important in securing major decisions, supporting growth initiatives and ensuring robust governance practices.