Bénédicte Denis

Bénédicte Denis

Norton Rose Fulbright LLP

Recognized since 2020

Paris, France

Practice Areas

Insurance Law

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Bénédicte Denis is Head of the Paris corporate team and Paris insurance practice.

Bénédicte Denis specialises in corporate and regulatory advice to financial services and insurance industry clients.

She represents French and foreign clients on asset and share acquisitions, joint ventures and corporate restructurings, at the national and cross-border level. Bénédicte also carries out non-transactional work for financial institutions and provides advice on a wide range of legal and regulatory matters relating to their businesses, including the setting up of new businesses, new authorisations, ongoing business regulation, product distribution, product regulation and compliance.

Bénédicte is a member of the working group “Brexit and Insurance” of the Haut Comité Juridique de la Place Financière de Paris.

She is recommended in several directories, including Chambers Europe, as “excellent and commercially astute” and “highly adaptable”. Bénédicte spent 16 years in another international full service law firm where she was made a partner in 2007.

She joined Norton Rose Fulbright LLP in 2012. A French native speaker, she is also fluent in English.

· Avocat au Barreau de Paris

· Solicitor, qualified in England & Wales

Contact & Links
Location
  • 40, rue de Courcelles
    Paris 75008
    France
Languages
  • English
  • French
Bar Admissions
  • United Kingdom, • Solicitor, qualified in England & Wales
  • France, • Avocat au Barreau de Paris
Affiliations
  • Haut Comité Juridique de la Place Financière de Paris - Member

Recognized in The Best Lawyers in France™ 2023 for work in:
  • Insurance Law
Awards:

  • · “Incontournable” - Décideurs 2020, Regulatory Assurance/ Réasssurance

    · Tier 2 – Legal 500 France – Insurance 2020: ‘Corporate and regulatory specialist Bénédicte Denis heads the team and is particularly focused on transactional risks insurance.’

    · Chambers 2020 : “Offers clients a wide range of services in the insurance sector, including corporate and regulatory advice. Sought out for its experience in insurance-related M&A operations. Also handles compliance work and due diligence cases. Client base comprises national and international insurers as well as financial institutions. Equipped to deal with cross-border mandates. "Bénédicte Denis Head of department, advises insurance companies on regulatory issues, insurance policy drafting and insurance-related M&A transactions. One client comments: "She is very pragmatic."

    · “Tier 1 for Corporate/M&A : mid-market.” Chambers Global 2018, France · Chambers Europe 2018, France: “The team offers clients a wide range of services in the insurance sector, including corporate and regulatory advice as well as dispute resolution and acts on global matters with a client base comprising national and international insurers as well as private equity funds.”

Cases
Advising a major insurer on the strategic reorganisation of its international health insurance activities and business lines
Advising a major insurer on the strategic reorganisation of its international health insurance activities and business lines, involving more than EUR 1 billion of AUMs and 50 countries, including the setting up and authorisation of a new composite insurer in France, a cross-border merger between an Irish insurance company of the group and the new French insurance company, spin offs of businesses including insurance portfolio transfers.
Advising a banking group based in the Middle East on the reorganisation of its European operations in the context of Brexit
Advising a banking group based in the Middle East on the reorganisation of its European operations in the context of Brexit, through the creation and authorisation of a new French credit institution and the transfer of its activities in continental Europe from its current headquarters in the United Kingdom to the new French entity and its respective subsidiaries in Germany and Italy.
Transactions
Advising AnaCap Financial Partners on the sale of Ellisphere
Advising AnaCap Financial Partners on the sale of the French intelligence business provider Ellisphere to Andera Partners and Tikehau Capital, and its initial acquisition of Ellisphere from Natixis SA.
Advising Apicil on the acquisition of The One Life Company
Advising Apicil on the acquisition of The One Life Company, a Luxembourg-based life assurance company.
Advising Allianz on the sale of its stakes in six African subsidiaries to the SUNU group
Advising Allianz on the sale of its stakes in six African subsidiaries located in Central and East Africa to the SUNU group (the second largest insurance player in the CIMA region).
Advising Apicil on its acquisition of 100% of Legal & General’s activities in France
Advising Apicil on its acquisition of 100% of Legal & General’s activities in France (insurance, savings and banking activities) (now Gresham).
Advising Allianz on its acquisition of a Moroccan based insurance company
Advising Allianz on its acquisition of a Moroccan based insurance company, subsidiary of Zurich Insurance Company Ltd.
Advising MetLife Inc. on its joint venture with AXA France Vie SA
Advising MetLife Inc. on its joint venture with AXA France Vie SA relating to the setting up and enhancement of the MAXIS Global Benefits Network, through a French-based company called MAXIS GBN SAS. MAXIS Global Benefit Networks is one of the world's leading global employee benefits networks, operating across 110 countries around the world (closed 2016).
Advising UBS on the disposal of its French life insurance business to Swiss Life
Advising UBS on the disposal of its French life insurance business to Swiss Life (including a cross-border insurance portfolio transfer from Ireland to France).
Advising AnaCap Financial Partners, on its buyout and disposal of AssurOne Group
Advising AnaCap Financial Partners, on its successful buyout and subsequent disposal of AssurOne Group, a leading French digital insurance broker specialising in the online distribution and management of personal insurance products, including motor and home policies.
Advising a French based global insurance group on the potential sale of its 100% interest in a joint venture specialised in life insurance
Advising a French based global insurance group on the potential sale of its 100% interest in a joint venture specialised in life insurance (for high net worth clients)
Advising TA Associates, on the insurance regulatory, commercial and litigation aspects of its successful buyout of Ciprès group
Advising TA Associates, on the insurance regulatory, commercial and litigation aspects of its successful buyout of Ciprès group, one of the leading French wholesale insurance brokerage group.
Advising on Euro 530 million sale of Euro-Information Telecom to Bouygues Telecom
Advised Crédit Mutuel and Euro-Information, a Crédit Mutuel group company, on the sale of Euro-Information Telecom (EIT) to its parent company Bouygues Telecom. Additionally, the firm advised Crédit Mutuel and Euro-Information in relation to the formation an exclusive distribution partnership involving Crédit Mutuel, CIC and Bouygues Telecom. The acquisition price for Euro-Information Telecom comprised a fixed portion of 530 million euros, to be paid on the closing of the deal. It also included an additional amount between 140 million and 325 million euros, contingent on the unit’s future performance.
Advising Bridgepoint on acquisition of groupe Financière CEP
Advised Bridgepoint, one of the largest pan-European private equity firms in the world, on its acquisition of a majority stake in the Compagnie Européenne de Prévoyance Group (CEP) from JC Flowers & Co and CHG Participations.

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