On 18 January 2024, the Authority of Financial Markets (AMF) unveiled its action plan and supervisory priorities for 2024 (including its new SPOT control priorities). This regular meeting, which is
Simon Fournier
Simon Fournier, Partner, is a member of Business Law department of the firm. He mainly advises on corporate law and mergers and acquisitions. He has developed a strong expertise in international legal reorganizations and assists his clients in all their domestic and cross-border mergers, post-acquisition integration operations, joint ventures and reorganizations of groups of companies, both in the preliminary legal structuring of these operations and in their implementation.
Simon has significant experience in managing complex international projects, with the support of the lawyers in the international network of Deloitte Legal.
As a member of the firm’s Financial Services Industry team, Simon regularly advises and assists French and international groups in the banking and insurance sectors, in particular with regard to regulatory issues (international regulatory structuring, ACPR and/or AMF approvals, European passport, procedures with foreign regulators).
Before joining Deloitte Société d’Avocats in 2011, he worked in the Corporate M&A department of the law firm Bretlim Fortuny (2009-2011).
Simon Fournier
Deloitte Société d'Avocats
Corporate Law
Simon Fournier, Partner, is a member of Business Law department of the firm. He mainly advises on corporate law and mergers and acquisitions. He has developed a strong expertise in international legal reorganizations and assists his clients in all their domestic and cross-border mergers, post-acquisition integration operations, joint ventures and reorganizations of groups of companies, both in the preliminary legal structuring of these operations and in their implementation.
Simon has significant experience in managing complex international projects, with the support of the lawyers in the international network of Deloitte Legal.
As a member of the firm’s Financial Services Industry team, Simon regularly advises and assists French and international groups in the banking and insurance sectors, in particular with regard to regulatory issues (international regulatory structuring, ACPR and/or AMF approvals, European passport, procedures with foreign regulators).
Before joining Deloitte Société d’Avocats in 2011, he worked in the Corporate M&A department of the law firm Bretlim Fortuny (2009-2011).
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New European directive on consumer credit: towards a more protective and harmonized European credit market
Directive (EU) 2023/2225 of 18 October 2023 on credit agreements for consumers (the “Directive“) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 30 October 2023. The Directive
Integrating sustainability in investment firms’ operating conditions, operational requirements and product governance
As a result of the transposition of Delegated Directive (EU) 2021/1269 by the Order of 25 July 2022, investment firms (and credit institutions providing investment services) will be required to
Sustainable Finance: publication of the technical standards of the SFDR
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Extension and diversification of the scope of activities of crowdfunding platforms
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The French Rules of “Collborative Platforms”
The new standards entered into force since July 1st, 2016 The “collaborative” economy via an Internet platform, provides for many individuals additional income which for some of them can be