Stéphane PUEL

Managing partner - Gide Loyrette Nouel

Stéphane Puel is the managing partner of Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I since 1st January, 2012.

Stéphane also heads the “Investment Funds” practice of the firm. He advises French and international financial institutions on all regulatory matters, and in particular on structuring, setting up, documenting and distributing regulated and non-regulated French and foreign law open-end and closed-end investment funds, such as hedge funds, REITs, private equity funds, infrastructure funds and distressed debt funds.

Stéphane Puel has published articles in numerous professional reviews in France and abroad and frequently speaks at seminars on asset management and UCITS.

He is the joint author of the «Investment funds» chapter in the Répertoire Commercial Dalloz (to be released) and the co-author of a book on «Asset Management in France» (to be released).

He writes a column on asset management in the Revue Trimestrielle de droit financier.

Stéphane Puel also sits on a number of working groups at the AMF and the Direction du Trésor on the transposition of EU directives on asset management (UCITS IV, AIFM). He is a member of the legal committee of the AFIC (French venture capital association).