Julien Martinet

Practice Areas

Complex and serial litigation

Fraud, vigilance, asset freezing, embargoes and blocking statutes, the right to an account, negative interest, regulatory and criminal sanctions, ESG standards, ethics, new forms of shareholder activism and cybercrime.

Career

Julien Martinet is a member of the Paris and Djibouti Bars, a member of the Board of Directors of the AEDBF (European Association of Banking and Financial Law) and a lecturer in Banking Litigation for the Master’s degree in Banking and Financial Law at the University of Paris I – Panthéon Sorbonne.

He represents the main French banks in litigation involving their liability in the various aspects of their activities (loans, financial markets, payment transactions, asset management, enforcement measures, contracts/networks, collective proceedings, regulatory and criminal proceedings), as well as companies operating in the distribution sector and international entities with interests in France.

Publications

Conferences on climate justice and related topics:

.Regulating atypical financial products in the EU, Conference in Athens, Oct. 2023

.Climate justice (duty of care, greenwashing and carbon neutrality claims), May 2023

.Sustainable finance and the risk of greenwashing, w/ Prof. Myriam Roussille and Ms Tiphaine Gaudusson, Apr. 2023

.ESG criteria, businesses and duty of care, w/ Prof. Anne-Claire Rouaud and Ms Lucile de La Jonquière, Feb. 2023

.Greenwashing and the risk of environmental litigation, presentation at the AEDBF (EU Association for Banking and Financial Law ), w/ Louise Laïdi, Jan. 2023

Personal

Master of Studies in Legal Research, Oxford University, 2001

Master of Advanced Studies in Fundamental Private Law, University of Lyon, 1998