Profile details
About Emeric Tidafi
Emeric advises French, EU and foreign financial institutions on a wide range of French financial regulation matters.
His main areas of practice include:
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advisory matters: advising on the full range or regulatory issues (e.g. licensing, AML/CFT, governance, regulatory capital, responding to the risks involded by regulatory change, FinTech, or sustainable finance);
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regulatory transactions: transactions (e.g. M&A, group reorganisation or joint-venture) involving regulated financial institutions, where Emeric's practice covers the due diligence phase through to regulatory approvals; and
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contentious matters: investigations and disciplinary proceedings by French regulators.
Clients advised are mainly banks, investment and payment services providers, broker dealers, and asset and wealth managers.
Recent work
Landmark experience includes assisting:
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in 2023/2024, General Atlantic on a minority investment in Partners Capital Investment Group;
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in 2023/2024, Antin-backed Idex on a €1.712 billion financing (including hedging aspects);
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in 2023, UBS on the acquisition of Credit Suisse;
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in 2023, Charterhouse Capital Partners in the context of the acquisition of a qualifying holding in France Valley (a French management company specialised in forestry and real assets);
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in 2022/2023, AnaCap-backed Milleis Banque on regulatory aspects of its combination with the French private bank Cholet Dupont-Oudart to become the 3rd largest independent French wealth manager; and
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in 2022, VINCI Airports SAS in the acquisition of an indirect minority controlling interest in a Mexican publicly traded corporation that maintains and develops 13 airports (Grupo Aeroportuario del Centro Norte, S.A.B. de C.V.) from Fintech Holdings Inc.
Qualifications
Graduated from the Sorbonne Law School (Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne) with a Master degree in business law (Master 2 Droit des affaires - class of 2021) and a Master degree in financial law (Master 2 Droit financier - class of 2020).