Eléonore Hannezo

Eléonore Hannezo specialises in complex financial litigation, with a broad practice ranging from regulatory enforcement, internal investigations and white-collar crime, to commercial disputes and class actions.

She has extensive experience of dealing with our clients in cross-border crisis management, including preparing CEOs and Global GCs before criminal and regulatory authorities.

Eléonore is also involved in the Linklaters ESG team.

Eléonore gives the lecture (cours magistral) of Banking and Financial Regulation at Sciences Po Paris. In 2017, she was appointed to co-author the report on ‘The Future of the Legal Profession’ requested by the French Minister of Justice.

Work highlights

Eléonore has acted for our clients in many high-profile disputes, including:

Regulatory enforcement:

• advising and acting on behalf of an investment firm in relation to the enforcement proceedings before the Enforcement Committee of the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) opened on the grounds of market manipulation;
• advising and acting on behalf of a leading insurance company in relation to the enforcement proceedings before the Enforcement Committee of the Autorité de contrôle prudentiel et de résolution (ACPR) opened on the grounds of non-compliance with anti-money laundering and financing terrorism requirements;
• advising and acting on behalf of an investment firm in relation to the enforcement proceedings before the Enforcement Committee of the AMF, opened on the grounds of non-compliance with professional rules;

Internal investigations:

• assisting an international engineering group on identifying risks of corruption and shortcomings in internal control processes to implement a compliance and ethics program within the company worldwide;
• assisting a multinational company on identifying, through a document review involving 70 Linklaters lawyers and employees, risks of possible negligence and shortcoming in internal control processes, following a health crisis;
• assisting a French company on identifying of possible negligence and shortcoming in internal control processes, following a massive cyberattack and breach of health data;

White-collar crime:

• advising and acting on behalf of a leading energy company as well as of one of its executives in the context of a criminal investigation led by the financial investigating department of the Paris First Instance Court, opened on the grounds of corruption of foreign public officials;
• advising and acting on behalf of Board members of a French industrial company, in the context of a criminal investigation led by the financial investigating department of the Paris First Instance Court, opened on the grounds of various criminal offences in relation to the group’s involvement in a zone of conflict;
• advising and acting on behalf of a financial actor in the context the context of a criminal investigation led by the financial investigating department of the Paris First Instance Court, opened on the ground, on the grounds of money laundering;

Commercial disputes:

• advising and acting on behalf of an international commodity trading group before courts of a Central African State in the context of various civil and criminal proceedings arising from a shareholders’ dispute, including opposition to multiple freezing of assets;
• advising and acting on behalf of a worldwide leader telecommunications company in the context of various civil proceedings arising from the bankruptcy of its subsidiary, including seizure of documents performed on an ex-parte basis in its premises;
• advising and acting on behalf of a financial actor in the context of civil proceedings brought against the management of a listed French company.

Eléonore holds a bachelor of arts and a Master in Economic Law degree from Sciences Po Paris. She is admitted at the Paris Bar. 

She speaks French and English fluently.