Emeric Tidafi

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:

• 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);

• 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

• 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:

• in 2024, BNP Paribas on entering into exclusive negotiations with AXA for the acquisition of AXA Investment Managers and a long term partnership in asset management;

• in 2024, Aon on the acquisition of Delta Assurances and Baloo;

• in 2023/2024, a French retail bank throughout an enforcement action taken by the French regulator ACPR in relation to AML-CFT matters (i.e., disciplinary proceeding no.2023-01);

• in 2023/2024, General Atlantic on a minority investment in Partners Capital Investment Group;

• in 2023/2024, Antin-backed Idex on a €1.712 billion financing (including hedging aspects);

• in 2023, UBS on the acquisition of Credit Suisse;

• 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);

• 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

• 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.