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17 AVENUE MATIGNON
CS30027
75378 PARIS
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Dr Sébastien Gros
Work Department
Corporate – Financial Institutions/ Insurance
Position
| Partner |
Career
Dr. Sébastien Gros, a partner in the firm’s Paris office, leads the Financial Institutions & Insurance practice group within the Paris office. Regarded as one of three leading individuals in the European regulatory and corporate field, he is dedicated to helping financial services and insurance industry clients. Sébastien also has in-house counsel experience, working directly for several clients on a short-term basis, including a leading French banking group. French and foreign financial institutions rely on Sébastien’s solutions-focused approach to domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, including share acquisitions and disposals, assets and business transfers, portfolio transfers, joint ventures, and group reorganizations.
His support also includes non-transactional financial services and insurance advice to these institutions on a wide range of legal and regulatory issues relating to their operations in France, such as the setting up of new businesses, licensing and conduct of business requirements, marketing and distribution of products, and product regulation generally.
Languages
French, German, English
Memberships
| Centre de Professions Financières, Paris
Franco-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Paris German French Lawyers Association (DFJ/AJFA) International Association of Insurance Law (AIDA), Paris |
Education
| Dr. iur., Doctorate in Law, Dresden University of Technology, 2006
LL.M., University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2003 Second German State Exam in Law, University of Freiburg, 2002 First German State Exam in Law, University of Freiburg, 2000 |
Lawyer Rankings
France > Insurance
(Leading individuals)Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP‘s insurance practice has a strong focus on transactional and regulatory matters, frequently taking on cross-border mandates alongside its international offices. Counting major French and international insurers among its clients, the team assists with M&A, portfolio transfers and reorganisations in the insurance sector, as well as regulatory issues relating to setting up operations in France and the distribution of insurance products (including in growing areas such as insurtech). Sébastien Gros is the leading figure in the practice, supported by Ghina Farah.
France > Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
(Leading individuals)Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP assists a large and prominent client base comprising leading banks, financial entities and private banks as well as fintech companies on regulatory matters including retail banking, payment services, e-money, credit operations and prudential requirements. The team also assists client in the context of transactional and corporate reorganisation projects, including cross-border ones. Sébastien Gros is in charge and is supported by counsel Franck Dupret, who is highly involved.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals France > Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Leading individuals France > Insurance
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory France
- Insurance France
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Data privacy and data protection
- Compliance
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus: IT and internet
- Insolvency
- Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
- Compliance
- Private equity: venture/growth capital
Firm Rankings
- Aviation finance
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Capital markets: debt capital markets
- Derivatives and structured finance
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: Stock market litigation
- Employment
- EU, competition and distribution
- Industry focus: Luxury goods
- Insurance
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Private equity: LBO
- Shipping finance
- Banking and finance: transactional work
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Industry focus: Energy
- Industry focus: Telecoms
- Intellectual property: Copyright
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Tax
- Administrative and public law
- Project finance
- Real estate
- Compliance
- Dispute resolution: White-collar crime