Hubert de Vauplane

He provides legal counsel on fintech, blockchain, and cryptocurrency assets, as well as financial regulatory issues relating to investment advice, asset management, payment services, and banking. Trilingual, he speaks French, English, and Spanish.

Hubert is authorized on the French Financial Market Supervisory Authority (AMF), as well as the European Commission and European Central Bank. He has served as a member of various marketplace organizations, including the Financial Markets Law Committee, Paris Europlace, the Panel of Recognized International Markets Experts in Finance (PRIME), and the Legal High Committee for Financial Markets of Paris.

He is a professor of international banking and financial law at the Paris Institute of Political Sciences.

Since 2001, Hubert has written for the “La finance décryptée par le droit” blog in Alternative Economiques. Beyond publishing regular columns in the Revue Banque, he writes for many other legal and economic magazines. He has also contributed to several books on the law and legal practice, including Traité de droit des marchés financiers, awarded by the French Academy of Political sciences.

Hubert previously worked at leading banks, serving as group general counsel for a French bank and as group and investment bank general counsel at another French bank.

Prior to joining Morgan Lewis, Hubert co-led the alternative investment management practice in the Paris office of another law firm.