Virginia Barat advises on business litigation before French courts and arbitration tribunals. Her work includes complex and technical cases involving criminal or quasi-criminal elements and international law issues. Virginia handles banking and financial law cases, as well as the full range of litigation in business and white-collar criminal law. She additionally counsels on the new legal issues raised by fintech, blockchain technologies, and digital assets like cryptocurrencies, initial coin offerings, and non-fungible tokens.
Virginia has experience in disciplinary litigation before the French banking and financial supervisors, Autorité des Marchés Financiers and Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution, particularly with anti-money laundering and terrorist financing issues. Additionally, she counsels major financial institutions at the control, investigation, and disciplinary stages. Virginia speaks French and English.
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