Dr Sébastien Gros > Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP > Paris, France > Lawyer Profile
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17 AVENUE MATIGNON
CS30027
75378 PARIS
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Dr Sébastien Gros
Work Department
Corporate – Financial Institutions/ Insurance
Position
| Partner |
Career
Dr. Sébastien Gros, a partner in the firm’s Paris office, leads the Financial Institutions & Insurance practice group within the Paris office. Regarded as one of three leading individuals in the European regulatory and corporate field, he is dedicated to helping financial services and insurance industry clients. Sébastien also has in-house counsel experience, working directly for several clients on a short-term basis, including a leading French banking group. French and foreign financial institutions rely on Sébastien’s solutions-focused approach to domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, including share acquisitions and disposals, assets and business transfers, portfolio transfers, joint ventures, and group reorganizations.
His support also includes non-transactional financial services and insurance advice to these institutions on a wide range of legal and regulatory issues relating to their operations in France, such as the setting up of new businesses, licensing and conduct of business requirements, marketing and distribution of products, and product regulation generally.
Languages
French, German, English
Memberships
| Centre de Professions Financières, Paris
Franco-German Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Paris German French Lawyers Association (DFJ/AJFA) International Association of Insurance Law (AIDA), Paris |
Education
| Dr. iur., Doctorate in Law, Dresden University of Technology, 2006
LL.M., University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2003 Second German State Exam in Law, University of Freiburg, 2002 First German State Exam in Law, University of Freiburg, 2000 |
Lawyer Rankings
France > Insurance
(Leading partners)Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP specialises in the transactional and regulatory aspects of insurance law, with an impressive recent caseload that includes advising on complex M&A, reorganisations and strategic partnerships involving leading insurance companies, in addition to regulatory and compliance issues relating to setting up new insurance businesses and the distribution of products. Practice head Sébastien Gros is frequently called upon by French and international financial services and insurance clients to handle significant transactions – including cross-border mandates – and regulatory matters. Ghina Farah is also a key name to note.
France > Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
(Leading partners)Hogan Lovells (Paris) LLP assists many leading French and foreign financial institutions on the launch of new offerings, on their regulatory and prudential requirements as well as on issues linked to retail banking and payment services. The practice also assists its clients on French and pan-European business reorganisation and on their corporate transactions. The team is led by Sébastien Gros , with counsel Franck Dupret providing key support.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading partners France > Insurance
- Leading partners France > Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory France
- Insurance France
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Data privacy and data protection
- Derivatives and structured finance
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus: IT and internet
- Insolvency
- Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
- Private equity: venture/growth capital
Firm Rankings
- Aviation finance
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Banking and finance: transactional work
- Capital markets: debt capital markets
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: Stock market litigation
- Employment
- EU, competition and distribution
- Industry focus: Energy
- Industry focus: Luxury goods
- Insurance
- Intellectual property: Copyright
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Private equity: LBO
- Shipping finance
- Administrative and public law
- Compliance
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Dispute resolution: White-collar crime
- Industry focus: Telecoms
- Project finance
- Tax
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Real estate