CMS Pasquier Ciulla Marquet Pastor Svara & Gazo

Banking & Finance

Avocat Associé | Managing Partner

Olivier Marquet is one of the founding partners and the Managing Partner of CMS Monaco. He heads the Banking & Finance team. Olivier is an Avocat Défenseur at the Monaco Bar.

Repeatedly recognized as leading individual by prestigious international rankings, Olivier brings over 15 years of experience, advising a wide range of Monegasque and foreign clients, mostly banks and financial institutions.

His expertise includes all types of regulatory issues, financial products and transactions. He assists his clients in, amongst others, the creation or acquisition of a bank or financial institution, banking monopoly, bank secrecy, Franco-Monegasque banking agreements and also monetary agreements between the Principality of Monaco and the European Union. He also advises his clients on the SEPA agreement, measures to combat money laundering, terrorist financing and corruption, Monegasque financial law, Monegasque banking laws, banker's liability law, laws on credit and syndicated loans, credit guarantees, debt restructuring and the preparation of documents for clients to exercise banking and financial activities. His expertise also covers data protection law.

Having a strong track record in contentious matters, Olivier also regularly represents banks and financial institutions, and their executives, in litigation proceedings before Monegasque courts. He also has a significant experience in criminal proceedings.

Olivier’s expertise is widely acknowledged by his clients and independent rankings, such as Chambers & Partners, Legal 500 or Who’s Who Legal.

French, English

Participant at the Modernisation Committee of the Business Law in Monaco

Monaco Bar (2005) Visiting Scholar, Duke University - School of Law (US) Postgraduate Degree in Business Law, University of Nice Postgraduate Degree in International Business Law, University of Aix-Marseille