He spent his childhood and adolescence in Tahiti, then studied in metropolitan France, in Paris, in Nice, where he obtained a master's degree in public law, then at the University of Oxford in England, where he obtained a master's degree in law under the Erasmus programme.
He joined the Papeete bar in November 2007 and began his career as an associate of François Quinquis.
[2] He made himself known to the general Polynesian public in certain criminal cases with strong local media resonance.
He is notably the lawyer for Henri Haiti, in the case of the assassination of the German tourist Stefan Ramin,[3] and of Rere Puputauki, in the case of the sinking of the Tahiti Nui IV[4] and the disappearance by journalist Jean-Pascal Couraud.
[6] He then successfully led the campaign of Maina Sage, Tahoera'a Huiraatira candidate in the 2014 by-election in French Polynesia's 1st constituency to rep[lace Édouard Fritch.