Frédérick Lacroix

Practice Areas

Frédérick Lacroix is head of Clifford Chance's financial services and asset management practice in Paris. He advises under EU and French laws on banking and investment services regulatory matters (including on regulatory capital), asset management and funds, insurance investment regulations, clearing and settlement, and financial/securities litigations, e-money and payment services, financial institution M&A, restructuring and resolution. He advises fintech clients on financial regulatory issues, relating to investment advice, asset management, payment services and banking.

Frédérick also co-heads the structured finance/debt practice of the firm in Paris and advises financial institutions and corporates on a wide range of structured finance, capital market and derivative products. In particular, Frédérick has an extensive experience in cash and synthetic securitisations.

Frédérick is an active contributor to legal reviews and publications and is also regularly consulted on the drafting of pieces of legislation in the financial sector.

Career

Institut Supérieur de Gestion (Diploma in Finance) 1992

University of Panthéon-Assas (Master in Private Law) 1995

Institut de Droit des Affaires (Diploma in Business Law) 1995

University of Panthéon-Assas (postgraduate in Business Law) 1996

University Paris XII and School of Engineers Ecole Centrale Paris (postgraduate in Management Sciences) 1996

Crédit Lyonnais - Paris - Securitisation Group 1996

Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Paris 1997

Admitted as an avocat in Paris 1998

Joined Clifford Chance 2003

Counsel since 2005

Partner since 2009

Languages Spoken

Speaks English and French