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Séverine Hotellier

Séverine Hotellier

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Dentons

Dentons

France

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Insurance

Noted for its ‘excellent knowledge of the insurance and liability sectors’, Dentons covers the full spectrum of advisory and contentious insurance and reinsurance matters. The practice’s expertise spans regulatory issues, transactional work, product review and coverage analysis, also acting for clients in disputes in the sector. Financial institutions, construction, transportation and energy industry players form the core of the practice’s client base. Séverine Hotellier is noted for being ’absolutely indispensable’ and specialises in complex insurance litigation for domestic and international insurers, and also overseeing day-to-day claims management processes. She leads the group alongside Frédérique de La Chapelle, who handles international disputes and has notable expertise in the regulatory aspects of the insurance industry.
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Insurance
Position

Séverine Hotellier is the Managing Partner of Dentons’ Paris office where she also heads the Insurance practice.

Séverine focuses on insurance litigation. She deals with complex, high-stake matters for insurance companies and industrial clients both in France and globally. For nearly 25 years, she has assisted clients with claims management, litigations and disputes and has advised on insurance-related technical, financial and legal issues.

Séverine also advises on insurance claims regulations and helps with the drafting, distribution and adaptation of insurance policies to cover evolving risks. She also consults on cyber risk in the insurance sector.

Séverine advises insurers and insured parties on pre-contentious or contentious issues. Her activity includes providing legal advice before judicial, commercial and administrative courts.

Career

France Managing Partner since 2019
Joined Dentons in 2017
Partner, LPA-CGR Avocats, 2010 - 2016
Partner, Hascoet & Associés, 1998 - 2010

Languages
English, French
Memberships
Admitted to the Paris Bar in 1998 Member of the AMRAE (Association pour le Management des Risques et des Assurances de l'Entreprise) Lecturer, Master 2 in Insurance Law, University Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2015 - 2018
Education

CMAP (Centre de Médiation et Arbitrage de Paris), Diploma (2012)
University of Paris II - Panthéon Assas, DESS, Construction law (1996)
University of Paris II - Panthéon Assas, Maîtrise, Private Law (1995)

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