Jessie Gaston

Partner at ORRICK

Speaker

Jessie Gaston, deputy office leader of Orrick's Paris office, advises clients on domestic and international transactional tax matters and has a wealth of experience in setting up cross-border share incentive schemes for private and public companies.

With almost 20 years’ experience, her expertise includes intervening in complex cross border mergers and acquisitions and private equity operations (MBOs and LBOs), strategic joint ventures, listing and delisting companies and designing and implementing management incentive plans. Recent key mandates include sectors as diverse as Tech (Anaplan), Hospitality (SSP, Maybourne Hotels), Infrastructure (Altitude Telecom, Axa, Ardian) or Luxury retail (Chanel).

Jessie is regarded “an excellent lawyer” “highly skilled” and “an exceptional team leader who thinks out of the box” (Legal 500 EMEA). She is a Highly Regarded Practitioner and a Women in Tax Leader (ITR World Tax, 2024). The Thomson Reuters Foundation also nominated her as Lawyer of the Year for pro bono in relation to her engagement with several Women empowerment NGOs. She has acted as expert witness before the New York State Supreme Court, is frequently interviewed by media outlets such as Bloomberg, Les Echos, and quoted by the BBC concerning tax regimes for tech companies in Europe.

Before joining Orrick Jessie worked for one of the leading auditing and consulting services firms in the world and the Paris office of two multinational law firms.