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Mathieu helps companies, fintechs, and financial institutions turn regulatory complexity into a strategic advantage — with clear, responsive, fully bilingual advice in French and English.
Experience: 5+ years
Languages: French, English
Registered: Grasse Bar
Mathieu Cochet is a French-qualified attorney (avocat à la Cour) registered with the Grasse Bar, advising businesses, financial institutions, and individuals on corporate law, banking and financial regulation, and the law of crypto-assets. With over five years of experience — including as an associate in leading international firms (Fieldfisher, A&O Shearman) — he is known for a proactive, hands-on approach that treats legal and regulatory requirements not as obstacles but as levers for performance and growth.
His corporate practice covers the full life of a company: choosing the right legal form, drafting articles of association and shareholders' agreements, handling incorporation and registration formalities, and supporting clients through their development — capital operations, acquisitions, restructurings, distress situations, and shareholder disputes. He also drafts and negotiates commercial contracts (general terms of sale, commercial leases) and represents clients before the civil and commercial courts.
In banking and financial law, Mathieu assists with licensing and registration applications before the French and European regulators (AMF, ACPR, Orias, ANJ), regulatory audits and compliance under both EU frameworks (MiFID II, AIFMD, PSD2) and French law (Loi PACTE, Loi Influenceurs), and long-term advice on AML/CFT obligations and operational procedures. He is equally active in the fast-moving field of crypto-assets, structuring DeFi and token-offering projects, handling CASP/PSAN registrations, and bringing projects into compliance.
When disputes arise, Mathieu represents clients before the civil and commercial courts and the financial regulators (AMF, ACPR, ANJ, DGCCRF), and handles complex litigation involving financial products, crypto-assets, and investment fraud. A firm believer in amicable resolution, he also guides clients through negotiation, mediation, and conciliation.
Exceptionally responsive and perfectly bilingual in English, Mathieu regularly intervenes on significant cross-border matters, bridging French and EU regulation with the expectations of international companies, investors, and fintech founders.
Your Partner in French Business & Financial Law Mathieu helps start-ups, fintechs, financial institutions, and investors secure their projects and seize opportunities in France and across the EU — combining rigorous regulatory analysis with a fast, fluent, English-language service.
Talk to an expertA company should contact a financial regulation lawyer when its activity may involve banking services, financial services, payment services, asset management, fintech operations, investment products, crypto-assets or regulated client-facing financial activity.
Yes. Mathieu has experience in financial services, fintech and regulatory matters, including work with French and international clients on banking, financial regulation and crypto-assets issues.
Yes. Mathieu advises on crypto-assets law, blockchain-related regulatory matters, CASP / PSAN topics and MiCA-related compliance issues.
Yes. Mathieu works on corporate and company-law matters, including company formation, shareholders’ agreements, corporate structuring, M&A and restructuring issues.
Yes. Mathieu works in French and English and has experience supporting international clients on French corporate, banking, financial and crypto-regulatory matters.
A lawyer with both advisory and litigation experience can help structure legal decisions with future risk in mind. This is useful when drafting agreements, reviewing regulatory exposure, preparing compliance steps or managing disputes.
Yes. His practice focuses on banking and financial regulation, and he has experience in regulatory matters connected to French financial-sector supervision.
Prepare a short summary of your business activity, regulatory question, corporate structure, existing authorisations, contracts, investor documents or any correspondence from authorities. This helps clarify the legal route quickly.
Avocate au Barreau de Paris
Toque #C2396
15+ Years In French Corporate Practice
English · French · Russian
Ready When You Are
A 20–30 minute call, in English, to scope the engagement. No obligation, no preliminary fee. You will leave the call with a clear view of what the work will cover and what it will cost.
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