Monterosa Partners
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Practice Areas
Transactional, Regulatory & Litigation
The firm assists its clients in the implementation of their projects and protects their interests before supervision authorities and courts in the following areas:
Financial services, Fintech & Insurtech
Strategic & commercial agreements
IT, Internet & data privacy
Corporate M&A
Innovative Projects
The firm is frequently hired to structure and implement projects requiring the combination of several expertises in particular in regulated industries:
Digitalisation of banking, financial and insurance activities
E-Health
E-commerce & Marketplaces
We combine depth of expertise and proved ability to include legal and regulatory aspects of a project to offer operative propositions and enable our clients to make their decisions.
We are an independent firm. We have developed a network of trusted legal professionals in France and abroad.

Recent Assignments
Financial Services
Fintech & Insurtech
AMF & ACPR license of a Fintech commercializing insurance-based and financial investment products. Application for a simultaneous art. 60 MiCA notification
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Update of business continuity plans and risks mapping, DORA implementation, incl. negotiating outsourcing arrangements
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AMF & ACPR licenses of Fintechs as investments firms (reception of orders, portfolio management and investment advice), financing companies and payment institutions
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AMF license of portfolio management companies and crowdfunding platforms (debt and real estate)
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Assistance of a portfolio management company in connection with a regulatory audit by the AMF
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Assistance of a payment institution in connection with a regulatory audit by the ACPR
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Structuration of a digital solution of real estate investment based on security tokens and smart contracts
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AML procedures and agreements (outsourcing, third-party introduction)
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Structuration of a digital solution for real estate financing through co-investment and structuration of a dedicated investment fund
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Structuration of differed payment and credit insurance on a marketplace and of the related financing scheme
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Negotiation of strategic agreements for regulated entities : SaaS-based credit solution, integration of insurance solutions and savings accounts to a payment institution product range, intermediaries partnerships
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Agreements for the provision of investment services, incl. portfolio management agreements
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Distribution agreements relating to shares in investments funds and insurance contracts
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Revamping of a payment institution terms and conditions and implementation of client's assets safekeeping methods
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International deployment of Buy Now Pay Later operations
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Review of client funnels in light of sustainability rules under amended MIFID II and IDD
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Assistance of a a regulated financial conglomerate for the implementation of cloud computing and cross-selling solutions

E-health
E-commerce
Strategic agreements relating to e-health solutions: medical document exchange, telemedicine
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Creation and use of health databases (warehouses or MR-004 compliant bases)
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Template documentation for marketplaces (incl. third party vendors conditions, GDPR procedures and policy)
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SaaS agreements (software provider for the asset management industry, SaaS based marketplaces)

Corporate M&A
Assisting sellers in connection with the sale of a Deeptech company to US investors
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Creation of a joint venture company for the development of SaaS based marketplaces
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Equity financing rounds of Deeptech and Fintech companies with financial and corporate investors, drafting of employee equity incentive plans
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Assisting a financial institution in connection with its safeguard proceedings
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Assisting sellers of a Fintech in connection with earn-out provisions-related disputes

