Overview
I have advised leading financial institutions and investment firms in financial services regulation on a wide range of activities and on all types of regulatory issues, including structuring, licensing, conduct of business, governance, regulatory investigations and enforcement.
I also focus my practice on all aspects of the asset management sector, private equity investments and ESG regulatory requirements.
Before joining Linklaters, my previous experience as a legal intern in the French financial markets authority (the “AMF”) allows me to provide clients with a practical approach on the regulators views/approaches.
Experience
Emilie advises domestic and international investment management firms covering the French regulatory aspects of structuring, licensing, organizing French funds (including private equity funds and real estate funds) and marketing of onshore or offshore funds to investors, either retail or institutional.
Emilie also represents domestic and international institutional investors in connection with their investments in French funds, including private equity and real estate funds.
Emilie is specialized on all aspects of financial markets regulation, including licensing and regulatory compliance, regulatory reforms and cross-border servicing of clients, MiFID II and ESG regulatory requirements such as Taxonomy Regulation, SFDR, CSRD, and the AMF Position-Recommendation 2020-03 (the “AMF ESG Doctrine”).
Investment Funds and ESG
- EU retail investment strategy: series of clients’ webinars to present the RIS/Omnibus Directive, impacts for clients (MiFID/IDD VfM principle, inducements, UCITS/AIFMD no “undue costs”, suitability & appropriateness test, marketing & cross border services, etc.) and update on the EU trilogue process (2024);
- Degroof Petercam Asset Management on regulatory advice in relation to recent and complex ESG disclosure requirements which implied our insight with regulators and institutions (2025-2021);
- Zurich Gruppe Deutschland on the setting up of a French professional real estate fund (OPPCI) with cross-border aspects concerning the investment structures (Germany and Switzerland) and assistance with respect to the AMF’s authorisation process (2021);
- BNP Paribas on the setting up their strategic high-tech funds distribution platform in connection with a complex and multi-jurisdictional set-up across EU involving large retail and institutional investors, distributors and sub-distributors, insurance companies (in relation to the unit-linked life insurance contracts) (2020);
Regulatory and ESG
- GBL Group on their acquisition of a major French group specialist (authorised as a payment institution) in customer experience and business process outsourcing, including some recent post-closing restructuring transactions under discussions with the French banking regulator (the ACPR) (2022-2021, 2019);
- CVC funds on their acquisition of a major French listed insurance group including multi-jurisdictional regulatory notifications (2019);
- Promontoria MMB on an investment vehicle held by Cerberus Funds, in its acquisition of Banque Espirito Santo et de la Vénétie (2018-2019);
- AnaCap Funds on their acquisition of Barclays’ French retail banking, insurance and investment management operations (2018);
Corporate transactions with public and private companies
- The State of the Netherlands on the acquisition of a strategic shareholding interest in Air France KLM SA (2019);
- Transdev Group on their sale of the so-called "cars Macron"
- Eurolines and Isilines long-distance coach services by Transdev Group (2019).
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