EXPERTISE

-Strategy
-Talent management
-Client development
-Partner relationships & management

SPECIALITIES

-International development
-Professional services firm mergers and associations
-Collaboration, networking and multi-disciplinary working
-Business development & cross-selling
-Governance of firms

Patrick Bignon, founding partner of Bignon De Keyser, has extensive knowledge and experience of the French, European and international legal markets.

He has been working for many years for multiple players in the legal market. He helps them to anticipate the dynamics of their market and adapt to its evolution. For more than 20 years, Patrick Bignon has been helping the management of legal organizations to be more efficient and to ensure that their organizations are resilient and set up for sustainable growth. With his long experience advising clients and, before that, in practice, Patrick has developed a real know-how in the strategic support of legal organizations.

He is creative and does not hesitate to shake up preconceived ideas, offering his clients new approaches to better develop their activities. Known and recognized as a “sparring partner”, Patrick Bignon is often consulted by the management of legal organizations on the many strategic, organizational and managerial issues they face.

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Prior to founding Bignon De Keyser, Patrick was a lawyer and managing partner of the global EY Law network, the Worldwide Managing Partner of Andersen Legal and the Managing Partner of Archibald in France.

Patrick has also been a member of numerous Management Committees and a member of the Board of Andersen Worldwide.

Patrick Bignon is a graduate of Sciences-Po and a notary. He was a lecturer at Sciences Po Paris and is the co-author of a book entitled “The Legal Function and the Company” published by Eska and has published numerous articles on the management of professional services firms.