Jérôme Herbet
Partner
Paris Managing Partner & Chair, Paris Corporate Practice
Jérôme is the managing partner of Winston’s Paris office and chair of the Paris Corporate Practice. He advises clients in various domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance transactions, and has an extensive knowledge of regulatory issues in the banking, financial, and insurance fields in France and Europe.
Jérôme has advised French and foreign private and public corporations as well as private equity funds in connection with various domestic and cross-border transactions, including mergers and acquisitions and stock exchange transactions. He also regularly advises companies for the purposes of corporate finance transactions, including private placements and complex financing structures. Over time, he has participated in numerous stock exchange transactions, including initial public offerings, public tender offers, and the issuance of various financial instruments, including convertible bonds.
He has an extensive knowledge of regulatory issues in the banking, financial, and insurance fields in France and Europe, as well as issues related to the marketing of financial products and services. Jérôme advises his clients for the purposes of obtaining the appropriate licenses, setting up innovative products, or entering into complex commercial cooperation agreements. Jérôme has longstanding relationships with various regulated financial institutions that he advises on a regular basis in connection with regulatory matters in the areas of banking and financial law, insurance law, financial market transactions, and structured finance.
He also occasionally represents such institutions or their principals in front of the competent disciplinary bodies (Autorité des marchés financiers, Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution).
Jérôme also regularly advises clients in regards to data privacy and data security especially with cross border merger and acquisition transactions.
Recent Experience
Jérôme has been ranked in the Best Lawyers in France in the practice area of finance law consistently since 2015. Jérôme is highly recommended by the Décideurs 2017 Guide (Leaders League France) in the fields of Mergers & Acquisitions: Operations between €75M and €500M (Band 2 – Excellent practice), Wealth Management – Asset Management (Band 2 – Excellent practice) and Arbitration, Litigation: Alternative Dispute Resolutions (Band 2 – Excellent practice). He was also distinguished in the 2017 edition of the Option Droit & Affaires rankings in the category of M&A for “mid-market” (deals under €200M).
Jérôme is a member of the Institut Français des Administrateurs (the French Director Institute). He also is a member of the AEDBF – the French chapter of the European Society for Banking and Financial Law and a member of the AFPDC, the French chapter of the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals.
In January 2018, Jérôme Herbet was appointed as a member of the working group set up by the High Legal Counsel for Paris Financial Place (Haut Comité Juridique de la Place Financière de Paris) on « BREXIT, FPS and banks », presided by Prof. Thierry BONNEAU.
Capabilities
Credentials
Education
Jérôme received an MAITR from Sciences Po Paris and a DEA from Paris Nanterre University.
Admissions
- Paris, France
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