Antoine Juaristi

- Dispute Resolution

- Financial Services Disputes

- Financial Services Regulatory

- Class Actions

Antoine is a partner based in our Paris office. Antoine is a member of the Disputes practice in Paris and focuses in banking and finance litigation. Antoine Juaristi focuses on banking and finance litigation and is an authority in regulatory finance disputes. He is one of a handful of lawyers whose skills in financial disciplinary proceedings is highly regarded and, as such, was consulted by the Sanctions Commission of the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF) on the potential reform of its disciplinary proceedings. Antoine Juaristi also advises banks, asset management companies and other investment services providers, in disciplinary and other regulatory proceedings instigated by the French Financial Market Authority ("AMF") and the French Banking Authority ("ACPR"). He represents both the legal entities and their representatives in proceedings and during hearings before the AMF's and the ACPR's Enforcement Committee. Antoine has broad experience in criminal proceedings, generally in cases brought by the Public Prosecutor and for which an investigating magistrate in the financial sector has been appointed. Antoine has also developed an interest in the pre-litigation analysis of contracts, intervening in several disputes relating to important national and international contracts and where actions before courts are necessary. Today, Antoine is a recognised authority on issues relating to professional civil liability, and in particular of financial institutions on which he gives presentations and conferences on a regular basis. He has extensive experience in dispute resolution concerning asset management, banking, brokerage, capital markets and derivatives. In addition to his knowledge and experience in the wholesale market, he also has experience in disputes in the private banking sector. Antoine has given lectures at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commmerciales (HEC) in white collar crime and at various French universities. Antoine regularly publishes articles in both French and English on banking and finance litigation subjects. He also regularly intervenes in seminars as main speaker, notably at the annual conference on banking and financial case law organized by Revue Banque & Droit.

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