Mr Yannis Samothrakis > Taylor Wessing > Paris, France > Profil de l'avocat

Taylor Wessing
69 AVENUE FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT
75008 PARIS
France

Département

Insurance

Fonction

Partner

Carrière professionnelle

Yannis is a Partner in the (Re)Insurance & Industrial Risks department at Taylor Wessing.

 

Yannis assists clients on domestic and cross-border corporate transactions, in particular mergers, acquisitions and insurance / reinsurance portfolio transfers. Yannis also advises clients on French domestic and European regulatory matters such as the cross-border provision of insurance and reinsurance services, branch business across the EU, compliance with French law provisions for European or non-European insurers and reinsurers.

Prior to joining Taylor Wessing, Yannis was a partner in major US and UK law firms. He previously worked at the Economics & Finance Committee of the European insurance and reinsurance federation (Insurance Europe) in Brussels, as well as for Skandia Life in the UK. He holds a Masters degree from Warwick Business School and a law degree from Lille University in France. He teaches insurance law at the Insurance Institute of Paris at Paris Dauphine University.

Yannis is a member of the legal commission and of the run-off working group of the Association of French Reinsurance Professionals (APREF) and participated in the work of the legal working group set-up by the French Treasury on the transposition of Solvency II. Yannis has also been appointed as an expert on the EC’s Expert Group on a European Insurance Contract Law.

Langues

anglais, français, grec

Classements des avocats

Paris > Assurances

Taylor Wessing a renforcé son expertise sur le plan du conseil suite au recrutement de Yannis Samothrakis (ex  Clyde & Co LLP) en novembre 2023 qui dispose d’une grande expérience dans la gestion des opérations corporate et des problématiques réglementaires dans le domaine des assurances. L’équipe du cabinet est particulièrement reconnue pour sa capacité à représenter de grands assureurs et réassureurs dans des contentieux de grande envergure, notamment sur les segments de la responsabilité professionnelle, de la responsabilité des produits et des risques industriels grâce à Pierre-Olivier Leblanc . Marc Schuler  gère des problématiques d’assurance liées aux nouvelles technologies et aux cyber-risques.