Legal 500 EMEA
“Anne-Claire Hans has a keen instinct for understanding highly technical evidence and marshalling it to her client’s best advantage. She is a skilled, fearless young advocate with a bright future”
Legal 500 EMEA
“Anne-Claire Hans is quite remarkable. She is very lively and intelligent, extremely conscientious, invested and demanding with herself and her teams, so that she never lets anything go”
Best Lawyers
Anne-Claire has been featured in the Best Lawyers’ ”Ones to Watch 2023” list in Litigation and Banking & Finance.
- Commercial & Financial Disputes
- AMF Investigations
- Industrial Risks
Education
- Member of the Paris Bar since 2013
- Mediation (with the Institute of Expertise, Arbitration and Mediation)
- Sciences Po Paris – Master 1 & 2, specialization in Law and Economic Globalization
- Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris I) – Master 2 in Business Law
Anne-Claire specializes in complex commercial and financial litigation. Anne-Claire represents clients before all judicial and regulatory authorities in France, including the French Financial Markets Authority (AMF).
Notable experience
- Assisting and representing investment funds as well as individuals in the context of French Financial Markets Authority investigations and subsequent enforcement proceedings relating to market abuse
- Advising and representing French and foreign credit and financial institutions in the context of cross-border liability claims
- Representing multiple listed companies in the industrial sectors in the context of their sensitive litigation relating to industrial risks
- Representing French and foreign companies in the context of their IP-related disputes (trademark infringement, reverse engineering, trade secrets)
Relevant activities
- Member of the Women’s White Collar Defense Association (WWCDA)
Publications and conferences
- Global Arbitration Review Litigation Know-How – Chapter France
- Conference on Extraterritoriality of US law: how to protect our companies and their directors and officers? – 23 January 2020 – with Frédéric Pierucci, former Senior Executive of Alstom and author of The American Trap
- Conference on Directors and officers: “big losers” of the Public Interest Judicial Agreement? – 17 October 2019 – with Maxence Delorme, former vice-prosecutor and head of the economic and financial division of the public prosecutor’s office of the Nanterre court of first instance
- “Value destruction at the heart of the debate on shareholder activism” in Le Monde du Droit, 25 November 2019
- “US extraterritoriality vs. French sovereignty: the Gauvain report revives the debate” in Option Droit & Affaires, 3 July 2019