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Julien has extensive experience advising and representing institutional investors and private clients in financial litigation cases and white-collar crime. As an attorney and former equity derivatives trader, Julien possesses both strong legal experience and a deep understanding of financial markets.
Julien Visconti also serves as BLB&G’s Senior Advisor for European Investor Relations where he is part of the team that advises the firm’s European institutional investor clients on opportunities to recoup investment losses and establish corporate governance improvements through securities class actions and fiduciary duty and corporate governance litigation. BLB&G is the leading US law firm in securities litigation and corporate governance lawsuits.
Julien has represented investors in several high-profile shareholder activism cases in France, generating billions in shareholder value. Notably, Julien served as lead counsel for French activist fund CIAM in its challenge to Vivendi’s €10 billion demerger project and represented Esso shareholders in a derivative action involving ExxonMobil Corp. Julien also played a pivotal role in Euro Disney’s derivative action against The Walt Disney Company, leading to new case law in favor of minority shareholders in France. In addition, Julien’s litigation efforts have driven key legislative reforms on management compensation guidelines and the length of appeals before the Autorité des marchés financiers (French “AMF”). Notably, he was instrumental in ending double prosecutions for financial crimes through a successful appeal to France’s Constitutional Court.
Before becoming a lawyer, Julien was a director and asset manager at Boussard & Gavaudan Asset Management, and as an associate and equity derivatives trader at Goldman Sachs International and Natixis.
Julien teaches ESG shareholder activism at Sciences Po Paris.
