Market abuse
In the field of market abuse, the firm stands out for:
- Its in-depth knowledge on financial products and markets as well as its operations , due particularly to its advanced regulatory and transactional practice,
- Its involvement in a significant number of prosecutions, in France and abroad, both for insider dealing and market manipulation,
- Bringing together experienced lawyers in both administrative and criminal proceedings.
Examples include:
- Assisting a person working for an investment services provider in the course of SEC and Finma investigations pertaining to suspicions of misuse of multiple insider information.
- Assistance to persons subject to investigations by the French Financial Markets Authority for misusing insider information.
- Assistance to persons prosecuted before the Enforcement Committee of the French Financial Markets Authority for insider dealing.
- Criminal defence of a person suspected of insider dealing.
- Defence of an investment firm before the Enforcement Committee of the French Financial Market Authority against allegations of breaches of its obligations to fight against market abuse in the context of market manipulation by one of its clients.