About

Frédéric Lorin, previously a financial lawyer at Crédit Agricole, is now financial lawyer – EMEA equity capital markets at BNP Paribas, the French multinational bank and financial services company. Since joining BNP Paribas, Lorin has improved the response time to customer requests providing outstanding service to those impacted by the volatility of the financial markets. ‘Today, the execution time of an operation has been divided by two or by three. The lawyer must analyse, very quickly, all the problems of a folder’. He is appreciated for his efforts in the privatisation of large companies such as France Telecom, EDF and Renault, in conjunction to his senior legal support in the restructuring of giant public companies such as Alstom and SCOR. Portraying strong leadership to his team of five in Paris and three in London, Lorin stalwartly believes in the principle that skills as a financial analyst enhance the role of an in-house lawyer operating in the financial industry. Directing his team to provide pragmatic legal services to his customers in laudable timely fashion, his legal knowledge has, ‘thanks to financial transactions, saved bankruptcy companies’. Something he found ‘very rewarding’.