Bénédicte Denis

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Bénédicte Denis is a corporate lawyer based in Paris. She is Head of the Paris corporate team and specializes in strategic M&A, corporate and regulatory advice for insurance and financial services industry clients.

Bénédicte advises French and international institutions across the financial sector (insurers, reinsurers, banks, intermediaries and other market participants) on domestic and cross-border M&A transactions, including share acquisitions and disposals, asset and business transfers, portfolio transfers, joint ventures and corporate restructurings.

Bénédicte also regularly advises insurers and other financial institutions on a wide range of legal and regulatory matters, including the setting up of new businesses, ongoing business regulation, product distribution, product regulation and compliance.

Bénédicte is a member of the working group "Brexit and Insurance" of the Haut Comité Juridique de la Place Financière de Paris.

She is recommended in several directories including Best Lawyers 2021 (Insurance) and Chambers Europe, as "accessible, commercial and above all extremely knowledgeable in anything to do with regulation".