Bird & Bird strengthened its practice after hiring Nicolas Mordaunt-Crook from PwC Société d'Avocats in February 2025. He leads the team, offering a range of expertise spanning banking, payments, asset management, and insurance regulations. Leading French banks, major payment institutions, fintechs, and private banks constitute the department’s client portfolio, and they seek the firm’s expertise for regulatory, prudential, and compliance advice, as well as for the launch of new businesses.
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Testimonials
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- 'Cathie-Rosailie Joly is very professional, always well prepared and very knowledgeable on the subject matters.’
- ‘Cathie-Rosalie Joly is incredibly knowledgeable. She can cut through to the detail and instantly knows what's right and wrong from a French legislative perspective.’
Key clients
- La Monnaie de Paris
- European Commission
Work highlights
Assisting La Monnaie de Paris (French Mint) with the roll-out of a new scheme consisting of the issuance and marketing to retail investors of gold ‘investment’ collector coins with specific innovative features.
Advising the European Blockchain Regulatory Sandbox for Distributed Ledger Technologies, a European Commission initiative launched in 2023.
Practice head
Nicolas Mordaunt-Crook