Viguié Schmidt & Associés ' excellent public M&A expertise regularly provides the firm with stock-market litigation mandates. The practice is mainly retained by top companies’ executives and board members to assist with AMF investigations led into market-abuse offenses, such as insider dealing. The practice is co-headed by Yves Schmidt , Nicolas Viguié and Daniel Villey .

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  • ‘Excellent and extensive experience in financial and stock market litigation.'

Key clients

  • AB Science
  • H2O LLP
  • Rallye

Work highlights

  • Defending AB Science’s CEO in proceeding before the AMF for insider trading.
  • Defending H2O LLP’s CIO in proceeding before the AMF and the Conseil d’Etat for failure to comply with professional rules.
  • Assisting the former executive and shareholder of the listed company against CSSF (Luxembourg financial markets authority) before appeal courts regarding an administrative sanction.

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Nicolas Viguié
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Yves Schmidt
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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Yves Schmidt, Nicolas Viguié, Daniel Villey