Catherine Maison-Blanche
Senior Consultant
Paris
CM
Catherine Maison-Blanche
Senior Consultant
Paris
Contact Details
Catherine joined Allen & Overy at the beginning of 2010. She graduated from the IEP “Sciences-Po” Paris and started her career in 1986 at the SBF (Société des Bourses Françaises) in the legal department.
From 1992, she worked at the Issuers’ Directorate of the SBF and gained extensive experience in corporate finance transactions, being the privileged interlocutor of listed issuers, financial advisers and law firms.
From 1996, Catherine continued her career at the French Authority Market, the CMF (Conseil des Marchés Financiers) and AMF (Autorité des Marchés Financiers). She acted as general secretary of the board of those authorities for a decade.
From 2004, she decided to join lawyer firms and worked at Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and then Clifford Chance.
She has expert knowledge of stock exchange law and public M&A transactions (public offer, governance, regulated information, market abuse issues).
Qualifications
Academic
IEP Paris – Service Public - 1986
Master of Arts – Paris X – Preparatory class for literary studies – 1983
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CM
Qualifications
Academic
IEP Paris – Service Public - 1986
Master of Arts – Paris X – Preparatory class for literary studies – 1983
Published work
- Le sort des actifs d’une société cible en cas d’offre publique de prise de contrôle non sollicitée (affaire Veolia Suez), RTDF n° 1/2 – 2021
- Les modifications du règlement général de l'AMF relatives aux offres publiques d'acquisition liées à l'entrée en vigueur de la Loi Florange, BRDA, n° 14, July 2014
- Les agences de conseil en vote : réflexion sur l’encadrement des pratiques, Bulletin Joly Bourse, September 2013
- Refonte du régime de déclaration de franchissement de seuils : de la détention potentielle à la détention virtuelle, Option Finance, n° 1190, October 2012
- Période de pré-offre publique : éclairage et réflexions pratiques, Revue Bimestrielle LexisNexis Jurisclasseur, May/June 2011
- Asymétrie d'information : le vrai garde-fou passe par la responsabilisation des acteurs, JCPG n° 17, April 2010
