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About Alexis Ollivier
Avocat à la Cour, Alexis Ollivier joined Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer's Dispute Resolution Group in 2019.
His practice focuses on complex cross-border and domestic disputes, regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings (especially before the Enforcement Committee of the Autorité des marchés financiers, the French financial markets regulator), international sanctions, white-collar crime, and commercial, banking and financial services litigation.
Recent work
His experience includes advising:
Financial Enforcement and Disputes
- A global bank in the course of an investigation and subsequent enforcement proceedings before the CRE, the French energy regulator
- A leading French investment bank in the course of an investigation conducted by the AMF, the French financial markets regulator, and pertaining to its financial disclosure following a market incident
- A global mining and smelting company in the course of an investigation and subsequent enforcement proceedings before the FSMA, the Belgian financial markets regulator
- A global bank in a dispute against a listed company pertaining to allegations of insider dealings and disclosure of inside information
- Several leading international financial institutions in the context of the European and French sanction laws targeting business relationships with Russian entities
- A global investment management organisation in the context of the restructuring of a leading listed French senior residential care company
- A leading French energy company in enforcement proceedings pertaining to its financial disclosure, before the AMF and the Paris Court of Appeal
- A technology company in the course of an investigation conducted by the AMF and pertaining to suspicions of insider dealings
- A leading French banking group in the course of an investigation conducted by the AMF and pertaining to suspicions of market abuse
Commercial Litigation
- A financial services company in a dispute against an alleged business partner and pertaining to an alleged sudden termination of business relationships
- A technology and payment services company in a dispute pertaining to an alleged breach of contractual obligations
- A natural gas storage company in a dispute against building contractors following an industrial incident
Mass Claims
- A global automotive manufacturing company in civil and criminal proceedings resulting from allegations that the company intentionally and deceptively programmed certain diesel engines to selectively circumvent emissions controls
Securities and Governance Disputes
- A French vacation rental company in a dispute pertaining to a stock buy-back
- An international contract foodservice company in a dispute following a failed acquisition
- An agribusiness company in a dispute against former managers and pertaining to leaver mechanisms
- A global luxury company in the course of negotiations with a minority shareholder
- A global pharmaceutical company in the course of negociations with a minority shareholder
- A leading French investment bank in proceedings against its former chief executive officer and pertaining to the restitution of his severance package under the French Say on Pay legal regime
- A financial services company in a dispute pertaining to post-M&A claims
- An agribusiness company in a dispute pertaining to the dismissal of its former chief executive officer
- A stakeholder in the course of disputes pertaining to a takeover bid targeting a leading listed French waste management company
- A technology company in the course of negotiations with one of its shareholders pertaining to governance and allegations of capturing of business opportunities and misuse of corporate assets
White Collar and Investigations
- An international telecom services company in the course of an internal investigation pertaining to allegations of misconduct and corruption affecting one of its business partners
- A global bank in the context of a French parliamentary investigation
- An international industrial services company in the course of an internal investigation
- A global higher education institution in the course of several internal anti-harassment investigations
- A nuclear equipment manufacturer in the course of an investigation pertaining to a data breach
- A leading French investment bank in the context of pre-trial discovery proceedings initiated by a self-described whistleblower
Qualifications
Education
- University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas (Master's Degree in Business and Tax Law)
- Agrégation (Classics)
- École normale supérieure de Paris
- University of Cambridge (French Lector, Jesus College)
- University of Paris IV Sorbonne (Master's Degree in Classics)
- University of Paris III Sorbonne-Nouvelle (Bachelor's Degree in English)
- University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (Bachelor's Degree in Geography)
Professional qualifications
- Admitted to the Paris Bar