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25 RUE DE MARIGNAN
75008 PARIS
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Ngoc-Hong Ma
Work Department
Financial Regulation Group
Position
Ngoc-Hong is a Partner in our Financial and Regulation Group (FRG) in Paris. She has more than 15 years’ experience in Financial Regulation.
Ngoc-Hong advises large banks, brokers-dealers, asset managers, insurance companies on complex regulatory compliance matters under French and EU laws as well as on regulatory investigations and enforcement matters, in particular with the French banking and insurance regulator, the ACPR.
She notably advises financial institutions on the implementation of numerous EU regulatory reforms initiatives such as MiFID II, CRD IV/CRR, CRD V/CRR II, UCITS, AIFMD, PRIIPS, IFD/IFR, AML IV/AML V, ESG transition and regulations and impact of Brexit for most of the banking clients of the firm.
Ngoc-Hong has developed particular expertise advising investment funds, private equity houses and banks on the financial regulatory environment around funds and fund management.
She also has unique expertise advising financial institutions on regulatory remuneration rules and has extensive experience in M&A transactions involving financial institutions groups.
Career
Ngoc-Hong has completed secondments to Ardian in Paris and Citi in London within Linklaters.
2008-present: Linklaters
Education
Ngoc-Hong holds a post-graduate degree (Master 2) in Anglo-American Business Law from Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and a post-graduate degree (Mastère) in Law and International Management from HEC Paris.
Lawyer Rankings
France > Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
(Next Generation Partners)Linklaters assists a diverse client base of French and international banks, asset management funds and insurers, providing key guidance on a large array of financial regulations and key support during M&A deals undertaken in the financial services sector. Regulatory enforcement is also dealt with. Derivatives, asset management, fintech and ESG are key areas of involvement, while the French team can also rely on a strong European platform. The team is led by Ngoc-Hong Ma and counsel Laurent Benoit.
France > Private equity: Fund formation
Linklaters‘ ‘extensive’ team is equipped to handle the structuring and creation of private equity vehicles, UCITS, ETFs, and debt funds, in addition to handling related corporate, regulatory and tax aspects. The group is jointly led by Ngoc-Hong Ma, who advises private equity funds on regulatory aspects of fund management; and tax and investment management specialists Edouard Chapellier
and Cyril Boussion, the latter of whom is lauded as an ‘excellent technician and excellent negotiator’.
Lawyer Rankings
- Next Generation Partners France > Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory France
- Private equity: Fund formation France
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: transactional work
- Capital markets: debt capital markets
- EU, competition and distribution
- Industry focus: Energy
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Project finance
Firm Rankings
- Derivatives and structured finance
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: Stock market litigation
- Insolvency
- Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity: LBO
- Real estate
- Tax
- Administrative and public law
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Capital markets: equity capital markets
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Employment
- Private equity: Fund formation