Advice

• Assisting investment banks with legal arrangements for their buy-outs.
• Assistance in ensuring the legal safety of investors
• Drafting of contracts, memos and records
• Assistance in checking advertising, communication and marketing campaigns and marketing of banking, financial and insurance products
• Support and assistance for our clients in their relations and negotiations with consumer associations, for example on bank charges
• Audit of legal risks in the pension activity
• Regular training on money laundering or criminal risk for lawyers, operational staff or management of companies in the sector
• Assistance for the implementation of centralised processing of bank customer complaints,for example when a financial investment under-performs
• Recommendations on how to approach a criminal trial (of a pensions firm or bank) depending on the type of offence and its seriousness.

Litigation

The firm is involved in defence and claim proceedings in banking and insurance law on a daily basis

• Competition: Assistance and representation on state subsidies, abuse of dominant position and price-fixing at European Commission, Office of Fair Trading and Court hearings
• Assistance and representation of institutions before independent public authorities: the AMF (Financial Market Authority), ACP (Bank and Insurance Regulator)
• Corporate criminal law AVENS assists and represents companies in criminal law in the courts as the accused or plaintiff:
• Civil: Assistance and representation in civil or commercial court for litigation involving:
• Contractual liability and tortious liability
• Failure to inform, advise or warn
• Opt-out litigation
• Manifestly excessive premiums
• Implementation of safeguards