FinTech Legal - France
What the team is known for
Clifford Chance acts for payment services, crowdfunding, and cryptocurrency and blockchain clients. Its lawyers have significant experience in financial services regulation.
Strengths
"Clifford Chance can advise on and handle the most complex projects and are well regarded for their expertise in sophisticated matters. Clifford Chance's team depth and breadth and their reputation extends worldwide, and their practice heads and other lawyers are leading with impressive knowledge."
"Clifford Chance have a very good ability to deal with complex topics."
Work highlights
Clifford Chance advised the European Investment Bank on its first euro-denominated digital bond issuance on a private blockchain. The EUR100 million two-year bond was issued on a tokenisation platform administered by Goldman Sachs.
Notable practitioners
Frédérick Lacroix is head of Clifford Chance's financial services and asset management practice in Paris. He has experience in banking, investment funds, payments and insurance law. "Frédérick Lacroix is a very great practitioner for regulatory work."
