Your trusted legal partner

Your trusted legal partner in crypto asset law, financial services, anti-money laundering and counter-terrorism financing, and payment services.

Your legal counsel

Anne RAOUL-TARDIEU, with her unique dual experience in the private and public sectors, is the lawyer you need to bring your financial projects to fruition and ensure regulatory compliance.
With 12 years spent in the prestigious capital markets department at Linklaters in Paris, followed by 10 years at the Autorité des Marchés Financiers (AMF), Anne has acquired in-depth and recognised expertise in the financial ecosystem.
At the AMF, Anne has played a key role in strategic missions:

- Overseeing the registration of Investment Service Providers (ISPs) and Digital Asset Service Providers (DAPs).

- Inter-institutional coordination with the ACPR to structure the review of applications for registration and authorisation of ISPs and PSANs.

- Drafting of practical tools: Q&A and forms for market players, promoting simplified and transparent access to regulation.

In particular, she has overseen the examination of more than 30 authorisation applications, including PSIsin the context of Brexit and PSAN, demonstrating unparalleled rigour and analytical skills.

A pragmatic and results-oriented vision

Since returning to the legal profession, Anne has used this rare expertise to :

- Supporting clients in the strategic development of their financial projects.
- Guaranteeing their regulatory compliance, with detailed knowledge of the requirements of the competent authorities
- Facilitating their dealings with the approval and control authorities.

Thanks to her strategic and proactive approach, Anne works in a variety of areas of financial services law:

- Financial instruments and digital/crypto assets.
- Investment and payment services.
- Combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism (LCB-FT).

Partners

The Firm ARAO AVOCAT works with a network of partner lawyers and experts to provide you with an integrated and comprehensive range of legal services. This approach includes a variety of areas such as company law (incorporation of companies, shareholders' agreements, fundraising), employment law, tax law, intellectual property law, as well as litigation and pre-litigation in financial matters. The firm also works with chartered accountants, cybersecurity experts and foreign lawyers, offering solutions tailored to the international issues that may affect your business.

Publications

Crypto Asset Services by a Financial Investment Advisor (FIA): Is It Possible Without Being a PSAN?

Are PSANs allowed to advertise in France?

New regime for PSANs: What you need to know right now.

Update of the AMF Doctrine on Digital Asset Service Providers

Contact

For your project, you can contact me :

Email : a.raoul@arao-avocats.com

Telephone : +33 (0)6 84 01 59 92

Address: 17 rue Paul Lelong | 75002 Paris | France