Carole Sportes graduated in law from the University of Montpellier in 1993. She also obtained a post-graduate degree from the Business Law School of Montpellier in 1994.

She then qualified as an Avocat in 1995 and began to work in the corporate department of Price Waterhouse Juridique et Fiscal, Paris.

In 1998, she joined the Litigation and Insurance department of Norton Rose Paris where she developed an extensive experience in product liability and aviation. She also practised insurance/reinsurance business and commercial litigation.

In 2004, with three former partners of the Litigation and Insurance department of Norton Rose Paris, she founded BOPS a new boutique law firm.

Carole Sportes focuses her practice on international litigation, aviation, product liability and insurance related matters.

Carole actively contributes to current debates on aviation law and product liability. She is the French correspondent for Getting the Deal Through for Air Transportation and regularly publishes updates on French insurance law for International Law Office.

Carole has joined International Law Referral in June 2010 as the exclusive Aviation Law member for France.

Awards and Recognitions

• Décideurs Stratégie Finance Droit in its 2009 ranking of Law firms lists Carole Sportes in the top tier of the lawyers specialised in Product liability.
• Décideurs Stratégie Finance et Droit states, in its 2008 issue on Innovation and its Protection: ‘Carole Sportes deploys her expertise with panache for the benefit of clients requiring advice on product liability and pharmaceutical law.’
• Chambers Europe 2009: Carole Sportes ‘wins praise for her thriving aviation practice’.
• Chambers Europe 2010 ranks Carole Sportes in the France Transportation section in the Band 3.
• For Legal 500 2008/2009, Carole Sportes ‘ranks among the best experts in the market’ for air and space law.

Experience Statement:

Her recent experience includes representation of clients in the following matters:

• Sharm El Cheick accident – January 2004: representing Flash Airlines, its insurers and reinsurers (148 fatalities, 650 claims) before the French courts
• The Airbus A 320 crash in Perpignan – November 2008: representing Air New Zealand in the current judicial investigations and criminal proceedings
• Advising and representing on a regular basis airline companies in litigations and negotiations relating to passengers/cargo claims :
• Representing helicopter operators referred by international network.
• Acting in the field of the general aviation and assisting companies operating private jets in their negotiations or litigations whether relating to commercial or civil liability matters.

Languages

• French & English

Associations

IAWA International Aviation Womens Association
SFDAS Société Française de Droit Aérien et Spatial
AIDA Association Internationale de Droit des Assurances