France
Practice Areas
Joydeep Sengupta is a Partner in the Dentons’ Paris office. He is a member of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution practice and leads the Global Compliance and Investigations team in Paris.
Joydeep represents major financial institutions, global corporations, investment funds, international organizations, and charitable foundations, in internal investigations and cross-border litigation related to anti-money laundering, economic sanctions, export control, national security, fraud, market manipulation, and anticorruption laws. He conducts internal investigations for clients worldwide, including across Europe, as well as in the U.S., Asia and Africa.
He represents corporations, and financial institutions, investment funds and charitable foundations, in compliance matters related to anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, economic sanctions, export control and national security laws. He works with European financial institutions and corporations before regulators in Asia, Europe, and the US, including the New York Department of Financial Services, the Hong Kong Monetary Authority, the Monetary Authority of Singapore, the Japanese Financial Services Agency, the Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority, the Luxembourg Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier, the French Treasury, the Direction générale de la Sécurité intérieure (DGSI) of France, the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury, and the UK Financial Conduct Authority. Additionally, Joydeep provides advisory services to governments on enhancing anticorruption, sanctions and export control, asset tracing and other laws to prevent financial crime.
Joydeep also advises on the compliance aspects of corporate and financing transactions. Additionally, he represents corporations and entities in public and private mergers and acquisitions, including equity and asset sales, divestitures, and joint ventures.
Career
Partner, Dentons, 2024-Present
Lecturer, Université Paris I - Panthéon Sorbonne, 2022-Present
Counsel, Mayer Brown LLP, Paris, 2019-2024
Senior associate, Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, Paris and Washington D.C., 2007-2019
Anti-Corruption Legal Expert, Directorate for Financial and Enterprise Affairs, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), Paris, 2012-2014
Law Clerk to the Hon. Justice Russell Juriansz and the Hon. Justice Eleanore Cronk, Court of Appeal for Ontario, Canada, September 2009 – September 2010
Outreach Liaison for the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia, Coalition for the International Criminal Court, New York, U.S., 2001-2005
Professional Memberships
Admitted to the Bar, New York, 2009
Admitted to the Bar, Ontario, 2010
Admitted to the Bar, Paris, 2016
Ambassador, Epic Foundation, London
Corporate Social Responsibility Committee Member, American Chamber of Commerce in Paris, 2020 – present
Former Member, International Bar Association
Board Member, United World Colleges France
Board of Advisors, Theolex, 2019-present
Member, New York City Bar Association 2009-2011
Publications
Co-author, "The World Bank Issues Updated International Integrity Compliance Guidelines," Dentons, January, 2026
Co-author, "Roundtable: Corporate Fraud," Financier Worldwide Magazine, November, 2023
Co-author, "Q&A, Asset Seizure and Recovery," Financier Worldwide Magazine, December, 2022
Co-author, "Roundtable: Fraud and Anticorruption: Anti-Money Laundering Trends," Financier Worldwide Magazine, July, 2022
Co-author, "Developments in European Money Laundering," Risk and Compliance Magazine, April-June, 2022
Co-author, "US Department of Justice Issues Rare Advisory Opinion on FCPA Issue," February 10, 2022
Co-author, "OFAC Updates Two General Licenses, Issues Additional Guidance Related to Recent Russia Sanctions," Skadden Client Alert, May 2018
Co-author, "OFAC Issues New General Licenses, Guidance Related to Recent Russia Sanctions," Skadden Client Alert, April 2018
Co-author, "U.S. Imposes New Russia Sanctions, Targeting Oligarchs, Senior Government Officials and Entities," Skadden Client Alert, April 2018
Languages Spoken
Bengali
English
French
Hindi
Italian
Spanish
