Nicolas Spitz

Practice Areas

Nicolas Spitz is one of the leading regulatory lawyers in Paris. He is a specialist in financial regulatory matters and has been involved in some of the most important transactional regulatory matters in France recently.

He has developed significant expertise on regulatory requirements relating to derivatives and structured products (EMIR).

Nicolas also represents banks and financial institutions in regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings before the ECB/AMF/ACPR and judicial disputes before the French courts.

Career

Nicolas Spitz graduated from Sciences-Po Paris, holds a Masters in Finance from the London School of Economics and obtained a PhD in capital markets law from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne.

He has also published extensively on financial markets and banking law.

Professional Memberships

French High Legal Committee for the Paris Finance Marketplace

AMAFI (Association Française des Marchés Financiers)

AFPDB (Association Française des Produits d’investissement de Détail et de Bourse)

Publications

MiFID II: A New Framework for European Financial Markets, LexisNexis, January 2019

Financial Services Regulation: Decisions of the European authorities and courts – Revue Trimestrielle de Droit Financier, Reuters France