Martine Samuelian specializes in banking, investment and payment services as well as in insurance regulation.
She also advises clients on banking and financial litigation (civil and criminal courts or independent administrative authorities such as the AMF and ACPR Sanctions Commissions, the ECB).
This regulatory specialist leads a strong team dedicated to compliance, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing, prudential requirements, governance and blockchain issues, and has been assisting banks, investment firms, portfolio management companies, insurance companies, payment service providers and French and international fintechs, as well as their managers, with applicable regulations for over 35 years. Her clients recognize her technical expertise in financial matters and her knowledge of the markets, stakeholders, products and regulators, which has made her a key contact for the general, legal and compliance departments of these institutions.
She also provides her expertise to the firm’s other clients, particularly in the areas of governance, risk management, compliance and anti-corruption.
Skills
Lawyer since : 1984
Bar. : Paris
Language(s) : French - English
Training :
- Master’s Degree in Private Law – University of Aix-Marseille
- Certificate in specialised studies in Economic Law.
Member of :
- Association Nationale des Juristes de Banque – National Association of Banking Lawyers (ANJB)
- Involvement in seminars organised by LexisNexis, by the supervisory authorities (AMF, ACPR)
- Conferences for the Postgraduate Degree (Master 2) in Financial Criminal Law at Cergy Pontoise.
Publications
- La position AMF DOC-2023-07 confirmant les orientations de l’ABE sur l’utilisation de solutions d’entrée en relation d’affaires à distance : une étape de plus vers l’harmonisation des pratiques en matière de LCB-FT, Bulletin Joly Bourse, 29/09/2023
- “Companies must take the measure of strengthening the rights of whistleblowers” – LJA Magazine, June 2023 – ITW by Martine Samuelian, Florent Prunet and Olivier Lyon Lynch
- The CJEU puts an end to public access to the register of beneficial owners opened by the 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive – Bulletin Joly Bourse – n°01, 01/01/2023
- Elliott case: a final lap for obstruction – Bulletin Joly Bourse, 07/01/2022
- AMF et ACPR : analyse comparative des procédures de contrôle et de sanction – Bulletin Joly Bourse, 01/01/2022
- LCB-FT : vers la création d’une autorité de supervision européenne ad hoc – Bulletin Joly Bourse, 01/09/2021
- AMF Position DOC-2021-04 on compliance function requirements: a long-awaited clarification since the entry into force of MiFID II – Bulletin Joly Bourse, July 2021
- Coup de projecteur sur le manquement d’entrave retenu par la commission des sanctions de l’AMF dans le dossier des fonds Elliott, Bulletin Joly Bourse 2020
- Legal 500 France : Banking & Finance
- Banking & Finance Comparative Guide, Chapter France
- Panorama des dernières décisions de la nouvelle autorité indépendante : la Commission Nationale des Sanctions
- Options available to Canadian managers under the European AIF marketing rules, Revue Internationale des services financiers, 11/2016
- Décisions de la Commission des sanctions de l’AMF à l’encontre des sociétés SGAM et SGAM AI, avec la collaboration d’Alice Noizet, Option Finance, n°1153-1154, 19/12/2011
- Les enseignements de l’arrêt Maurel et Prom, Note sous Cour de cassation (com.), 27 avril 2011, F-D, n°10-12125, Bulletin Joly Bourse, n°9, septembre 2011, en collaboration avec Guillaume Berruyer
- Où sont les risques ?, Bulletin Joly Bourse, n°7-8, juillet-Août 2011
- Ventes à découvert, l’AMF lève l’interdiction, Option finance, n°1112, 14 février 2011
- 3ème Colloque de la Commission des Sanctions de l’AMF : Table ronde consacrée aux manquements d’initiés (2010)
- L’AMF se lance dans les « achats mystère », Revue de Droit Bancaire et de la Bourse N°3 (2010)
- Ordonnance n°2010-76 du 21 janvier 2010, pour une autorité de contrôle unique et efficace, Revue Banque, N°723 (2010 )
- Loi de régulation bancaire et financière : les nouveaux pouvoirs de l’AMF pour lutter contre le risque systémique et encadrer la spéculation, Option Finance N°1099 du 8 novembre 2010
- Note sur l‘Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel, Option Finance, 1er mars 2010, avec Dominique Léger
- Lutte contre le blanchiment de capitaux : impact de l’ordonnance du 30 janvier 2009, Décideurs : Stratégie, Finance, Droit, n° 103 (2009)
- Abus de marché / Manipulation de Cours, Décideurs : Stratégie, Finance, Droit, n°95 (2008)
- Le Manquement d’Initié, Décideurs : Stratégie, Finance, Droit, n°92 (2008)
- La fonction de contrôle de la conformité, Décideurs : Stratégie, Finance, Droit, n° 87 (2007)
- Lutte antiblanchiment : la connaissance du client et l’arrière plan économique, Décideurs : Stratégie, Finance, Droit, N°79 (2006)
Guidance:
- Structuring of the BPI France (Banque Publique d’Investissement – Public Investment Bank) on behalf of the Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations (CDC).
- Regularly assisting various financial, banking and insurance institutions regarding their governance, compliance and risk management procedures.
- Providing assistance in ensuring the compliance of new financial products at the time of their creation or structuring, and involvement in the drafting of their documentation.
- Review and updating of anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing measures or the detection of market abuse or anti-corruption on behalf of various French and foreign banking and financial groups.
- Assistance in the implementation of new regulations (AML Directive, loi Sapin 2 …).
Investigations and litigation proceedings:
- Several cases of administrative settlement negotiation with the AMF.
- Defending various institutions before the AMF Enforcement Committee.
- Providing assistance in connection with AMF investigations regarding market abuse with detailed letters responses.
- Assisting French banks with respect to the application of various US regulations.
- Many responses to formal notices or follow-up letters from the Prudential Control and Resolution Authority [ACPR] with the follow up of remedial action plans.
- Defending various institutions before the ACPR Enforcement Committee and review procedures.
- Assisting banks in connection with a notification of complaint issued by SICCFIN (authority dedicated to anti-money laundering and the fight against terrorism and corruption in Monaco).
- Litigation relating to the collapse of Icelandic banks, the collapse of Lehman Brothers, the Madoff fraud, etc.
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