Chambers Review
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FinTech Legal - France
What the Team is Known For
Gide Loyrette Nouel has a highly experienced team that regularly advises international and incumbent players alongside innovative projects in digital assets. It has top-tier practices in financial and capital markets, and expertise in digitalisation. The firm also has significant experience in cryptocurrency and other digital assets.
Strengths
The Gide team is fantastic. They are very responsive, knowledgeable about the regulatory framework and also very collaborative.
The Gide team is highly professional. They have deep sector expertise on structuring equity investments into tech companies and know the market standards and best practices.
The team is solid and well staffed — they’ve always had an in-house expert available to answer any of our questions. They always provide valuable advice and are attentive whenever anything comes up.
Work Highlights
Gide Loyrette Nouel advised BPCE, a major French banking group, on structuring innovative services in digital finance.
Notable practitioners
Franck Guiader is the director of Gide 255, Gide's digital transformation practice. Guiader holds expertise in blockchain and associated crypto assets including NFTs. He supports clients on French and EU financial regulations such as MiCAR.
Franck Guiader has a strong set of expertise and experience.
Matthieu Lucchesi advises FinTechs on financial regulation matters. He can be seen advising on French and EU regulations in connection with crypto-asset and crowdfunding products.
Matthieu is able to grasp technical changes very quickly in relation to our business and the regulations. He is very commercially aware and is able to bring innovative solutions to the table.