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France 2016

Marilyne Sullet-Duverbecq

group general counsel | Primonial

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Marilyne Sullet-Duverbecq

group general counsel | Primonial

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Marilyne Sullet-Duverbecq spent time working at law firms in France, Monaco and Italy, prior to her in-house stint in 2000 where she launched the legal department for the Neurocom Group, an e-security software company operating in Europe and North America. In 2001 she joined the banking sector with the Natixis Group were she helped establish the legal and compliance departments of three subsidiaries in France and the UK. Here she also defined the international development strategy for asset management and she represented the bank as an expert nominated by the European Commission, assisting towards the move to a unified EU financial market. AlixPartners, a business advisory firm, hired Sullet-Duverbecq in 2009 where she was asked to put in place compliance procedures in EMEA while managing international negotiations in a high impact risk management environment. By the time that Sullet-Duverbecq came to the Primonial Group, reputed financial advisors, she had already acquired an abundance of laudable achievements that the group could benefit from. At Primonial she developed a legal function for the 21 trades of the group (managing 12 business lines and four marketing networks) and reduced the legal cost by three-fold while multiplying the number of files addressed by the legal department by more than five-fold. When the group experienced the loss of their biggest shareholder and CEO in 2013, Sullet-Duverbecq came to the rescue assisting in the recapitalisation process and in particular appreciated for her exertion on leveraged buyouts (LBO) that ensured continuity. In late 2015, Sullet-Duverbecq displayed, again, undisputable legal skills when two new investment funds joined the existing shareholders. One of the biggest challenges that she has overcome took place during her initial days with Primonial, she evidenced tainted activities of external consultants encouraging shareholders to replace their confidence into internal services. Sullet-Duverbecq is a true defender of the business in the legal sphere. Successfully rescuing the group from this challenge, she has, in her five years, diminished the group’s risk statistics by almost two-fold and has professionalised and modernised, through legal software, the internal communication.

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