Dentons

Litigation and Dispute Resolution, Global Compliance and Investigations

Joydeep Sengupta is a Partner in the Dentons’ Paris office. He is a member of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice and leads the Global Compliance and Investigations team in Paris.

He represents major financial institutions and global corporations, in internal investigations and cross-border litigation related to anti-money laundering, economic sanctions, fraud, market manipulation, and anticorruption laws. He conducts internal investigations for clients worldwide, including in France, Japan, Italy, Luxembourg, Singapore, Spain, Switzerland, the UK, and the US.

He represents corporations and financial institutions in compliance matters related to anti-corruption, anti-money laundering  and economic sanctions laws. He works with European financial institutions and corporations before regulators in Asia, Europe, and the US, including the New York Department of Financial Services, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Japanese Financial Services Agency, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, the Luxembourg Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier, the French Treasury, and the UK Financial Conduct Authority. Additionally, Joydeep provides advisory services to governments on anticorruption laws.

Joydeep also advises on the compliance aspects of corporate and financing transactions. Additionally, he represents corporations and entities in public and private mergers and acquisitions, including equity and asset sales, divestitures, and joint ventures.

Partner, Dentons, 2024-Present Lecturer, Université Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne, 2022-Present Counsel, Mayer Brown LLP, Paris, 2019-2024 Senior associate, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, Paris and Washington D.C., 2007-2019 Anti-Corruption Legal Expert, Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, 2012-2014 Law Clerk to the Hon. Justice Russell Juriansz and the Hon. Justice Eleanore Cronk, Court of Appeal for Ontario, Canada, September 2009 – September 2010 Outreach Liaison for the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, Coalition for the International Criminal Court, New York, U.S., 2001-2005

Bengali, English, French, Hindi, Italian, Spanish

Admitted to the Bar, Paris,  2016 Admitted to the Bar, Ontario,  2010 Admitted to the Bar, New York, 2009

Ambassador, Epic Foundation, London Corporate Social Responsibility Committee Member, American Chamber of Commerce in Paris, 2020 – present Former Member, International Bar Association Board Member, United World Colleges France Board of Advisors, Theolex, 2019-present Member, New York City Bar Association 2009-2011

McGill University, LLB and BCL, Common and Civil Law Syracuse University, 2002, MA, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, MA, International Relations Wabash College, BA (Economics)