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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, international sanctions, regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings (especially before the Enforcement Committee of the Autorité des marchés financiers, the French financial markets regulator), white-collar crime, and commercial, banking and financial services litigation.
Recent work
His experience includes advising:
- 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;
- Several leading international financial institutions in the context of the European and French sanction laws targeting business relationships with Russian entities;
- A global pharmaceutical company in the course of negociations with a minority shareholder;
- A global investment management organisation in the context of the restructuring of a leading listed French senior residential care company;
- 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;
- An international industrial services company in the course of an internal investigation;
- A global luxury company in the course of negotiations with a minority shareholder;
- A leading French energy company in enforcement proceedings pertaining to its financial disclosure, before the AMF and the Paris Court of Appeal;
- 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;
- A financial services company in a dispute against an alleged business partner and pertaining to an alleged sudden termination of business relationships;
- A technology company in the course of an investigation conducted by the AMF and pertaining to suspicions of insider dealings;
- A global higher education institution in the course of several internal investigations;
- An agribusiness company in a dispute pertaining to the dismissal of its former chief executive officer;
- A leading French banking group in the course of an investigation conducted by the AMF and pertaining to suspicions of market abuse;
- A nuclear equipment manufacturer in the course of an investigation pertaining to a data breach;
- A stakeholder in the course of disputes pertaining to a takeover bid targeting a leading listed French waste management company;
- A leading French investment bank in the context of pre-trial discovery proceedings initiated by a self-described whistleblower;
- 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;
- A natural gas storage company in a dispute against building contractors following an industrial incident.
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