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Amélie Champsaur

Amélie Champsaur’s practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and investigations, particularly in the financial sector. Amélie leads the firm’s EU financial regulatory practice and is active in the fast developing area of EU-level financial regulation, advising EU and non-EU banks, infrastructures, sovereigns, investment funds, and other market participants on a broad range of matters, including prudential regulation, governance and compliance (including cyber-security), bank resolution, state aid in the financial sector, and derivatives regulation, in the context of M&A, capital markets transactions, emerging risks, ESG, as well as enforcement and litigation. She has also advised clients on the cross-border aspects of U.S. regulatory reforms, enforcement, and litigation matters, including on privacy matters. · Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton

FranceMergers and Acquisitions, Capital MarketsFrench (native), English (fluent), Italian (proficient), German (proficient)

About

Amélie Champsaur is a partner at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in France. Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, capital markets, and investigations, particularly in the financial sector. She leads the firm’s EU financial regulatory practice, advising EU and non-EU banks, infrastructures, sovereigns, investment funds, and other market participants on prudential regulation, governance and compliance (including cyber-security), bank resolution, state aid in the financial sector, and derivatives regulation, in the context of M&A, capital markets transactions, emerging risks, ESG, as well as enforcement and litigation. She has also advised clients on cross-border aspects of U.S. regulatory reforms, enforcement, and litigation matters, including privacy matters.

Practice areas

Mergers and AcquisitionsCapital MarketsInvestigationsFinancial Services RegulationPrudential RegulationGovernance and ComplianceBank ResolutionState AidDerivatives RegulationESGEnforcement and LitigationPrivacy

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Expertise

Mergers and AcquisitionsCapital MarketsInvestigationsFinancial Services RegulationPrudential RegulationGovernance and ComplianceBank ResolutionState AidDerivatives RegulationESGEnforcement and LitigationPrivacy

Education

  • Harvard Law School – LL.M. (2005)
  • Université de Paris IX - Paris-Dauphine – D.E.S.S. (2001)
  • Université de Paris XI - Paris-Sud – Maîtrise en Droit (2001)
  • Ecole des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC Paris) – H.E.C. (2000)

Admissions

  • Paris Bar

Languages

French (native)English (fluent)Italian (proficient)German (proficient)