France Teams 2017
| BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas
| BNP Paribas
| BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas’ Latin America legal team for Corporate and Institutional Banking (CIB) in New York is comprised of five lawyers including head of CIB legal in Hispanic Latin America, Evan...
| BNP Paribas Cardif Türkiye
Considering that BNP Paribas Cardif Türkiye, part of the international insurance company, operates in a highly regulated sector, the legal team plays an active role in all company projects, providing...
| BNP Paribas
BNP Paribas continues to be a prominent figure in the European banking market, as revenues increase across all operating divisions despite increased regulatory scrutiny. As additional requirements continue to be...
| BNP Paribas Ireland
BNP Paribas, a French multinational financial services company, has been active in Ireland since the early 1970s. In line with the global entity, the Irish arm offer the varied activities...
| BNP Paribas Personal Finance
The legal team of the personal finance subsidiary of French banking giant BNP Paribas received several nominations from private practice sources, and is known in the market for its extensive...
| BNP Paribas
The four-person team that provides legal assistance to the business of banking giant BNP Paribas in the Czech Republic has been praised for its strong collaboration with other departments and...
| Bank BGŻ BNP Paribas
The legal department at BGŻ BNP Paribas, the Poland based branch of the international banking group, consists of 60 people (40 lawyers and 20 full-time equivalents) and renders legal support...
| BNP Paribas Real Estate
BNP Paribas Real Estate is a European commercial property consultancy company with around 2,600 employees in 51 cities. In Italy, the BNP Paribas Real Estate legal and corporate affairs function...
| BNP Paribas
‘Derek Göbel has overseen the Asia Pacific legal operations of BNP Paribas for decades, and runs an extremely business savvy team adept at providing sound, balanced legal advice in numerous...
| BNP Paribas M&A Legal
Responsible for the management of all legal aspects of M&A transactions for BNP Paribas Group entities and business lines around the world, the BNP Paribas M&A legal team is an...
| BNP Paribas Group
Since 2000, Davina Saint has served as general counsel and head of legal responsible for the legal team at BNP Paribas Group in Ireland, covering the team’s framework, corporate governance...
| BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions
Made up of a team of seven legal counsels, the legal department at BNP Paribas Leasing Solutions oversee the legal needs of the five separate business units of the company...
| BNP Paribas - Southeast Asia
2018 marks BNP Paribas’ 50th anniversary in Singapore, the bank’s regional hub in Southeast Asia. One of the most prominent financial institutions globally, BNP Paribas employs around 2,500 employees in...
One of the most prominent financial institutions globally, BNP Paribas is a truly transnational operation, employing around 189,000 employees internationally as of 2015, with total revenues topping €43bn in 2016. Leading the company’s in-house legal function is group general counsel Georges Dirani, an individual with a deep understanding of the business gleaned from six years in his current position, prior to which he advised the bank in an external capacity as a partner and founding member of Herbert Smith Freehills’ Paris chapter. The legal team of BNP Paribas, in common with almost all global financial institutions, has faced a greatly expanding regulatory framework that has been a major focus of the team’s attention and has required them to remain flexible and innovative in their responses. While dealing with this ever-present and long term challenge, the legal team is also required to support and safeguard the company’s shorter term business goals, with the result that the team is exceptional at achieving multiple objectives simultaneously. Recent examples of large scale deals are plentiful and diverse, including the May 2017 announcement that BNP is due to acquire a 95% stake in French online banking company Compete-Nickel, and their acquisition of Mumbai-based brokerage firm Sharekhan in November 2016. BNP Paribas is blessed with excellent legal talent throughout its divisions, with the Equity Capital Markets (ECM) legal team, led by Benoit Faure, coming in for particular praise. Frédéric Lorin, a legal advisor in the ECM team, reported that the ‘most significant innovation we have been a part of is the introduction of synthetic convertible bonds, as we were the first in Europe to do this. Now all the European banks propose this kind of convertible bond’. As well as this, the team had a large part to play in BNP’s leading of the IPO of Belgian-German chip-making company X-Fab Silicon Foundries, which Lorin describes as ‘the most important IPO in France this year’.
