Stéphane Puel

Practice Areas

Gide's managing partner from 2012 to 2020, Stéphane Puel heads the Investment Funds & Asset Management team. He advises French and international financial institutions on all regulatory matters, and in particular on structuring, setting up, documenting and distributing regulated and non-regulated French and foreign law open-end and closed-end investment funds, such as hedge funds, REITs, private equity funds, infrastructure funds and distressed debt funds.

Stéphane is in regular contact with the French Financial Markets Authority (AMF) on all matters relating to licensing management companies, setting up investment funds, and distributing French and foreign investment funds and structured products.

Stéphane also advises these entities on the conduct of business rules applicable to them and assists them with court or disciplinary proceedings linked to their activity. He is a member of the Gide team which assisted the ASPIM since 2004 on the revamping of the regulations applicable to French real estate funds (OPCI).

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.