Practice Areas
Stéphane Puel is the Partner in charge of Gide's "investment funds" team in Paris.
He specialises in structuring, creating and raising French and foreign private assets investment funds. He also advises portfolio managers and sponsors on all their activities (regulatory approvals, management passport, marketing, AIFMD and ELTIF regulations). Stéphane also advises institutional investors on their investments in private assets investment funds. He is also heavily involved in assisting parties in the context of GP stakes. He is the regular contact for the Autorité des Marchés Financiers on all matters.
Stéphane has recently assisted French and foreign asset managers in the structuring of institutional investment funds in private equity, private debt, infrastructure and natural capital based in France and Luxembourg. He also assists numerous French and foreign management companies in the creation of ELTIF 2 funds eligible for life insurance. Lastly, he has recently assisted French banks and financial entities in acquiring stakes in asset managers or restructuring asset management groups.
Stéphane holds a postgraduate diploma (DEA) in business law from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas and is a graduate of IEP Paris. He was admitted to the Paris Bar in 1997.
Career
Partner, Gide Loyrette Nouel (2006)
Managing partner, Gide Loyrette Nouel (2012-2020)
Associate, Gide Loyrette Nouel (1997)
Professional Memberships
Stéphane is a member of the consultative commission on institutional investments and management at the French Financial Markets Authority, and an expert member of the Legal High Committee for Financial Markets of Paris. He is also a member of the legal committee of France Invest and the French Association for the Management of Cryptocurrencies (AFGC).
Publications
Stéphane regularly publishes articles in numerous professional reviews in France and abroad and frequently speaks at seminars on asset management and investment funds. He is the joint author of the "UCITS" chapter in the Répertoire Commercial Dalloz, co-author of a book on asset management in France, and writes a column on asset management in the financial law quarterly review in France.
