Roberto Cristofolini > Norton Rose Fulbright > Paris, France > Lawyer Profile

Norton Rose Fulbright’s banking and finance team is well-equipped to provide advice on banking operations, project financing, financial restructuring, and corporate lending transactions. Leading the team is corporate specialist Alain Malek who advises Moroccan and international corporations and financial institutions across sectors including banking, insurance, energy, infrastructure, and telecoms. Roberto Cristofolini specialises in capital markets, banking, and asset management, including the creation of all types of investment funds and financial and stock market regulation. Sara Benjelloun recently joined the capital markets team.

Norton Rose Fulbright assists leading French banks as well as some fintech and other financial entities in dealing with a diversity of issues, spanning banking compliance, derivatives as well as the launch of new businesses and products. The practice also assists banks with their regulatory issues linked to their M&A and divestment transactions, such as recently in Morocco. The practice is co-headed by Roberto Cristofolini and Sébastien Praicheux.

Norton Rose Fulbright assiste de grandes banques françaises ainsi que des fintechs et des entités financières diverses dans le traitement d’une large typologie de problématiques (conformité bancaire, produits dérivés, lancement de nouvelles activités et produits). L’équipe assiste aussi des banques dans la gestion de leurs problématiques réglementaires liées à leurs propres opérations de fusions-acquisitions et de cessions, comme récemment au Maroc. La pratique est codirigée par  Roberto Cristofolini et Sébastien Praicheux.