Valérie Lafarge-Sarkozy > ADVANT Altana > Paris, France > Lawyer Profile
ADVANT Altana Offices
45 RUE DE TOCQUEVILLE
75 017 PARIS
France
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Valérie Lafarge-Sarkozy
Work Department
Business Litigation & Contracts Negotiations
Cybersecurity
Position
Partner
Career
Valérie Lafarge-Sarkozy specializes in business litigation and pre-litigation. She advises a French and international clientele made up of insurance companies, banks, industrial groups, accounting firms and auditing firms. More specifically, her areas of expertise include complex or group litigation, class actions, emerging risks (cyber risks) and the management of the often-related crises, be it shareholder disputes, product liability, or executive and bank liability.
Valérie Lafarge-Sarkozy is an Expert Member of the Club des Juristes (the largest French legal think tank) and General Secretary of the Club’s Commission on Cyber Security. “Insuring Cyber Risk”, the first volume of the Commission’s report, was published to wide acclaim in January 2018. The second volume has been published in April 2021. She also teaches within the Master 2 – International Business Law program at the Université Paris Sud and frequently intervenes in the “Cercle des Administrateurs” (association of administrators).
Languages
French, English
Memberships
“Expert” member of the Club des Juristes (French legal think tank)
Member of the Paris Committee of Human Rights Watch
Member of the Woman of Influence Award Committee
Member of AMRAE (Association for the Management of Corporate Risks and Insurance)
Education
Bar admission: 1985
University of Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne: Masters’ Degrees in Business Law
University of Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne: Masters’ Degree in Judicial Careers
Lawyer Rankings
France > Insurance
ADVANT Altana advises a diverse client portfolio of insurers, reinsurers and international brokers on a wide range of contractual, distribution, corporate, regulatory and litigation matters in the insurance sphere. In particular, the team has a strong record in insurance-related M&A, including acting for key players in the French market on cross-border transactions. Gilles Gaillard is a key name for transactional work, Valérie Lafarge-Sarkozy focuses on litigation (including cyber risk and product liability claims) and Frédéric Manin advises insurance companies on competition matters.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Construction
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
Firm Rankings
- Insurance
- Intellectual property: Copyright
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution: White-collar crime
- Employment
- Insolvency
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- EU, competition and distribution
- Industry focus: IT and internet
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Administrative and public law
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Tax