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Etienne Dessy

Work Department
Corporate and Finance
Position
Partner FRG
Career
Etienne leads the firm’s Brussels office Financial Regulation and Investment Funds practices. He specialises in Belgian and EU financial regulation, advising top-tier Belgian and foreign financial institutions on a wide range of financial regulation questions and financial markets matters.
Etienne has deep knowledge of the regulatory environment in which financial institutions operate, including extensive knowledge of UCITS (Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities), AIFMD (Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive), EMIR (European Market Infrastructure Regulation) and MiFID (Markets in Financial Instruments Directive) applications.
Etienne is an expert in governance-related matters and is also often involved in cross-border M&A transactions in the financial sector and in group reorganisations, as well as regulatory investigations.
The other component of Etienne’s practice is investment funds. He advises international and Belgian fund managers on all aspects of structuring and management of funds, including prudential regulation of management companies and funds distribution.
Please visit the Linklaters website for more details of Etienne Dessy and his work in this category: https://www.linklaters.com/en/find-a-lawyer/etienne-dessy
Languages
English, French and Dutch
Lawyer Rankings
Belgium > Fintech
Linklaters‘ fintech group has established strength in the digital payments space, advising both longstanding players and new entrants. Its makeup, with experts from corporate, financial regulation, TMT, litigation, and IP teams, provides the team with wide-ranging expertise: its experience includes blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. Etienne Dessy heads the financial regulation team, leading the fintech offering alongside data protection go-to Guillaume Couneson and Andreas Van Impe, who specialises in innovative digital tools in the fintech market.
Belgium > EU regulatory: Financial services
(Leading partners)The financial regulation group at Linklaters is ‘excellent, business pro-active and legally profound’, advising clients on complex cross-border and Belgian deals, working closely with Belgian and European supervisory authorities on developing regulations. The practice benefits from extensive investment funds and asset management expertise. Etienne Dessy ‘combines theory with practice‘, and has extensive knowledge of UCITS, AIFMD, and MiFID applications. Also of note are Andreas Van Impe and Guillaume Leurquin, both with experience advising clients on all aspects of Belgian and EU financial regulations.
Lawyer Rankings
- EU regulatory: Financial services Belgium
- Leading partners Belgium > EU regulatory: Financial services
- Fintech Belgium
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking, finance and capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- EU regulatory: Financial services
- EU regulatory: Privacy and data protection
- Real estate and construction
- Tax