Banking and Insurance

Insurance
– Life insurance
– Property & casualty insurance
– Insurance intermediation
– Distribution of insurance products
– Reinsurance
– Proceedings before supervisory and  regulatory authorities

Trade Finance
– Foreign trade instruments (letters of credit, documentary collection, standby letters of credit, independent guarantees, bills of exchange) and their integration in complex contractual structuring (back-to-back L/Cs, assignment, reverse factoring)
– Trade finance contracts (buyer’s credit, supplier’s credit, commodity trading financing)
– Issues specific to international environments: international sanctions, seizures and immunity from execution (foreign states, foreign central banks), asymmetric jurisdiction clauses

Financing
– Agreements for deconsolidating “Dailly” assignments of claims
– Financing (structured or simple) of acquisitions, assets or WCR
– Setting up securities under French law
– Syndication agreements, risk participation agreements, subordination agreements…
– Loan restructuring

Representing banking institutions in the context of legal proceedings
– “Stop payment” emergency interim proceedings (with regards to independent guarantees)
– Liability lawsuits in relation to fraud (“Fake President” frauds, IT frauds, cryptocurrency frauds …), erroneous execution of payment orders, wrongful termination of credits, …
– Disputes with corporate clients

Representing banking institutions in the context of bankruptcy proceedings
– Conciliation, “ad hoc mandate”, creditors’ committees
– Filing claims or defending against their contestation, obtaining the allocation of a secured asset
– Managing lines of signed commitments during the observation period
– Controller mission

Assisting credit institutions in their internal management
– Customer relations: terms and conditions, account opening agreements, cash pooling agreements, specific master agreements
– Transfer of non-performing loan portfolios (NPL),
– Ensuring compliance with regulations (internal audit, subcontracting, compliance…) and assisting in drafting internal documentation
– Relations with ACPR (French supervisory authority), notably in the context of inspection missions
– Banking intermediation

Insurance
– French insurance companies
– Foreign insurers
– Mutual insurers companies
– Provident institutions
– Social protection groups
– Brokers
– General agents
– Insurance intermediary representatives

Banks
– Large French banks
– French subsidiaries of foreign banks
– Foreign banks not established in France
– Cooperative banks
– Banks specialised in a specific business or a specific geographic region