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Dentons
5 BOULEVARD MALESHERBES
75008 PARIS
France
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Work Department

Insurance

Position

Frédérique de La Chapelle is a Partner in the Dentons Paris office and Head of Europe Insurance group. She is renowned in regulatory and dispute resolution matters in the insurance and reinsurance sectors.

Frédérique assists domestic and international clients with all questions relating to inter alia regulatory insurance, transactions, partnerships agreements, transactional insurance, the structuring of insurance products (including affinity insurance), review and adaptation of insurance policies, review and negotiations of reinsurance agreements, licensing and portfolio transfer.

Frédérique also has a broad dispute management expertise acts in the context of cross-border and complex litigation proceedings notably relating to civil liability (third-party liability, professional liability, product liability, industrial risk in the energy sector) and financial lines (D&O, W&I, fraud, etc.).

Frédérique’s clients include insurers, reinsurers, CAC40 companies and brokers.

Career

Joined Dentons in 2019
Partner, Eversheds Sutherland (2013 – 2019)
Partner, Hascoët & Associés (2007 – 2013)
Associate, BOPS (2004 – 2007)
Associate, Norton Rose (2000 – 2004)
Associate, Hascoët & Trillat (1997 – 2000)

Languages

French, English

Memberships

Admitted to the Paris Bar in 1997

Member of APREF (Association of French Reinsurers: member of the legal commission)
Member of AMRAE (Association of in-house Risk Managers)
Member of Pluri’Elles Assurance (Association of Insurance women)

Education

University of Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne, DESS, Real Estate Law, 1996
University of Nancy 2, DEA, Private Law, 1995

Lawyer Rankings

France > Insurance

(Leading partners)

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Dentons‘ insurance practice strikes a balance between contentious and non-contentious work, covering corporate and regulatory issues – including the design and distribution of insurance products, policy wording and insurance-related transactions – and complex international disputes. The firm advises on all types of insurance, from industrial risks, financial lines and product liability to environmental liability and construction and energy-related insurance, with strong recent experience in business interruption and contractors’ all risks claims. The team is led by Frédérique de La Chapelle, who also heads the Europe insurance group, and is skilled across the board of regulatory, transactional and contentious matters, and Paris managing partner Séverine Hotellier, who handles high-stakes litigation for leading domestic and international insurers.