Scannell Properties France expands its management team with the appointment of Apolline Coly as Legal Director
Scannell Properties, the industrial and logistics investment and development specialist, announces the appointment of Apolline Coly as General Counsel, effective September 1, 2025.
With over ten years of experience in real estate law, Apolline Coly has built strong expertise in complex operations involving development, promotion, acquisition, and asset management in France and internationally. She previously worked at leading law firms including Clifford Chance (Paris and Amsterdam) and Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner.
In her new role at Scannell Properties France, she will oversee all legal aspects of logistics and parcel delivery projects, with a particular focus on securing land transactions and real estate developments, obtaining administrative authorizations, negotiating with stakeholders, ensuring regulatory compliance, and managing the legal governance of the company’s French entities.
Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2016 after graduating from Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne and Paris-Dauphine, Apolline Coly also holds the International Certificate in Corporate Finance (HEC, 2023).
“We are delighted to welcome Apolline, whose arrival is perfectly aligned with our ongoing structuring strategy to support our growth. Her strategic vision and legal expertise will further strengthen our ability to adapt to increasing constraints and regulatory changes shaping the logistics real estate market.” – Hugues Desbarrières, Deputy Managing Director, France.
“I am thrilled to be joining Scannell Properties, whose long-term vision, agility, and hands-on approach immediately resonated with me. This new role, within the fast-growing logistics and parcel delivery sector, represents an exciting opportunity to actively contribute to the group’s growth. In a constantly evolving legal and regulatory environment, I look forward to leveraging my expertise to support the responsible and ambitious development of Scannell Properties’ projects in France and abroad.” – Apolline Coly, General Counsel, Scannell Properties France