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Charlotte Butruille-Cardew is a founding partner at law firm CBBC.

She is a member of the Paris Bar and a registered European lawyer with the Law Society England and Wales.

Elected Member of the Paris Bar Council.

She practices law in French and English.

EXPERTISE

With her specific expertise in financially complex international family law cases and formidable experience of dealing with challenging matters, she advises on international asset planning and represents her clients in multi-jurisdictional litigation. She has been recognized by her clients and her peers for her talent in achieving successful settlement.

DISTINCTIONS

Charlotte Butruille-Cardew is a Knight of the Academic Palms.

 She is also an accredited specialist in family law.

 INTERNATIONAL

Charlotte Butruille-Cardew is a Fellow and Governor of the International Academy of Family Lawyers.

She was consulted on family law reform projects by the European Commission and by the law societies of England and New Zealand, and on EU Family projects by the Max Planck Institute.

She is the author of numerous books including Family Law, A global Guide (Thomson Reuters), Amicable Dispute Resolution Guide (Dalloz), International prenuptial agreements and postnuptial agreements (Jordan Limited) and The law of divorce: global perspectives (Icfai University Press). She regularly publishes articles in French and English, and is a regular guest speaker in France and abroad on international family law issues and complex international negotiations.

She is the French correspondent of the International Family Law Journal.

TEACHING

Charlotte is an accredited practitioner of and trainer on the collaborative law process, an alternative resolution technique based on integrative negotiation, which she introduced in France in 2007. She holds Harvard certificates in interest-based negotiation and teaches negotiation techniques and collaborative law process at the Paris Bar, and intercultural negotiation techniques at the International School of alternative dispute resolution (EIMA). She co-chairs the Paris Bar's open commission on amicable resolution international family law disputes.

Charlotte Butruille-Cardew is a doctor of Law. After working as an associate lecturer, she now works closely with universities in France and England, including for 15 years as a conference organizer at King’s College University (London) on French and English perspectives on family law. She contributed to the design of academic programs of the Universities of Assas, Nanterre, and IFOMENE and is a member of numerous scientific committees or life member of honour, as past president or founding member of AFPDC, IDFP, EIMA, Etats Généraux du droit de la famille.

EDUCATION

Doctor of Law: French and English divorce law, Paris XII - 2000 - London School of Economics -2001

LLM: Kings College London -1995

Master’s degree : Private law, Paris II Université Paris-Pantheon Assas -1994-

BEFORE CBBC

Prior to founding CBBC in 2009, Charlotte Butruille-Cardew worked as a corporate lawyer in London and Paris and also worked during her Phd with avocats aux Conseils (French Supreme courts).

Madeleine Diebolt is off counsel lawyer since January 2020 and joined the firm in 2014.

EXPERTISE

Madeleine Diebolt acts in international family law cases and more particularly in cases involving complex international divorce, parental authority, wrongful removal, adoption, and recognition of foreign decisions.

She works in French and English.

She has special experience in dealing with Common law, the Middle-East and Asian countries.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND- PUBLICATIONS

CAPA - 2014

Master’s degree (2nd year) - International affairs - University Paris I Sorbonne – 2010 – Major of Promotion

Master's degree (1st year)- International Law - University Paris-I Sorbonne - 2009 

Madeleine Diebolt is a teacher in family law at the University of Paris XII UPEC.

In addition, she has led several commissions at the Paris Bar (Minors' Commission and Family Commission) as well as several training courses in partnership with Lexis Nexis focusing solely on family law.

Madeleine Diebolt regularly writes articles for the International Family Law Journal, Dalloz and Lexbase.

 INTERNATIONAL

Before working with CBBC, Madeleine Diebolt did various internships with the United Nations in New York and Vienna. She also worked with the International Adoption Service of the Ministry of foreign affairs in Paris.

She also did a one-semester academic exchange in the United States during her law degree.

Madeleine Diebolt has attended several Young Lawyers’ annual meeting of the IAFL (International Academy of Family Lawyer): Berlin (2015), Madrid (2016), Warsaw (2017) and Milan (2019) as well as the 2018 IAFL's General Meeting in Dubaï.

Madeleine Diebolt has been a speaker at several Conferences either in France:

-        Comundi-LexisNexis conference in January 2018 on the subject of prestations compensatoires

-        Conference to the Defenseur des droits in April 2017 on the subject of "The child, at the center of legal cases".

As well in England:

-        Kings College Conference in London in 2014

-        Speaker for France at the Conference organised by English law firm Pennington Manches on the theme: "International transgender issues and Family law: a comparative view" in June 2019.

She has been a regular speaker at the Paris Bar Committee on the subject of children:

-        In February 2016 on the theme: "The international instruments when dealing with maintenance obligations and child contact",

-        In October 2017 on the theme: "Jurisdiction and applicable law for child's protection".

As well as at the Paris Bar Committee on the subject of Families, in January 2017 on the theme: "Non-EU international divorces".

BEFORE CBBC

Madeleine Diebolt did various internships in France and abroad. While in Bar school, she did an internship with the Paris Court of Appeal’s Prosecution service specialised in financial matters.

Clémence Delpech joined CBBC in July 2016.

 EXPERTISE

Clémence Delpech deals with all aspects of international family law and favors, whenever possible, amicable solutions.

Her experience at university and within the law firms CBBC and SWEGER AB (in Stockholm) has led her to develop a specific expertise and a particular interest for Franco-Swedish cases.

She works daily in French and English and can understand Swedish and Spanish.

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND – PUBLICATIONS

Academic degree of Mediator 1st part (IFOMENE) - 2020

Paris' Bar (CAPA) - 2017

LL.M in Comparative European Private International Law, Dundee University, Scotland - 2014

Master's degree (2nd year), Comparative European Private International Law, University Toulouse I Capitole - 2014

Master's degree (1st year), International and European Private Law, University Toulouse I Capitole - 2013 

She has cosigned an article in the Lexbase Edition Privée of December 2017: "Divorce et conflit de juridiction: une mise en perspective de l'article 6 du Règlement "Bruxelles II bis".

She participated to the writing of the article "The relationship between family law and social/digital media: it's complicated" published in the Family Law Journal, May 2020.

INTERNATIONAL

Clémence Delpech lived in Sweden where she studied for a year at Uppsala University and did an internship at a Family law firm in Stockholm in 2017.

In 2014, she also studied in Dundee (Scotland) where she followed an LL.M course in private international law.

She  participates in the Young Lawyer's annual conference of the IAFL (International Academy of Family Lawyers): Warsaw (2017) and Milan (2019).

BEFORE CBBC

Clémence Delpech has worked as an intern for several law firms in France as well as in Sweden.

Charlotte Ankaoua joined the CBBC firm as an academic researcher and lawyer in January 2020.

EXPERTISE

Charlotte Ankaoua has developed an expertise in private international law and international arbitration law.

Her PhD in private law, obtained with honourable distinction and unanimous congratulations from the jury, allowed her to deepen very specific notions of private international law.

TRAININGS - PUBLICATIONS

Doctorate in Private Law - L'ordre public transnational - 2019 - Under the supervision of Professor Thomas Clay - Paris-Saclay (Versailles/Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines) – With great distinction and unanimous congratulations of the jury and a proposal to compete for a thesis prize.

Master’s degree (2nd year) - Arbitration and International Trade - University Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines - 2014

Master’s degree (1st year) - Business Law - University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne - 2013

Master’s degree (1st year) - Justice and Trial - University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne - 2013

Master’s degree (1st year) - Applied Economics - University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne - 2013

Bachelor's degree in Law and Economics, University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas - 2011.

Charlotte Ankaoua has also been co-editor of the Journal de l'arbitrage de Versailles, published by LexisNexis, since 2018.

She is also the author of a research paper "Ebauches de réflexions sur l'ordre public transnational".

TEACHING

Charlotte Ankaoua is a teacher and research associate at the University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (contract law, general liability of obligations, family law).

She is also a contractual doctoral student with a teaching assignment at the University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (private international law, civil liability, general liability of obligations, introduction to law) and a temporary lecturer at the University of Evry Val d'Essonne (private international law).

BEFORE CBBC

Charlotte Ankaoua has taught various areas of law at the Universities of Versailles/Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, Evry Val d'Essonne and Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

EXPERTISE

Alexandra has more than 16 years of experience in accounting firms and 2 years in start-ups.

She joined CBBC in May 2019 as an accountant and office manager.

Alexandra is in charge of treasury, invoicing, HR, accounting, tax and general administration.

BEFORE CBBC

Alexandra Arnould has worked in various accounting firms as a professional accountant executive. In October 2016, she joined the start up Content Square, which specializes in solutions to optimize customer experience on e-commerce sites as head of sales and senior general accountant.