Alexis Valençon

Alexis is the co-founder and Managing Partner of our Paris office and sits at the firm’s Governance Group. He is an insurance and reinsurance specialist with extensive expertise in complex litigation and arbitration.

He advises leading French and foreign insurance and reinsurance companies, brokers, major policyholders and manufacturers on matters of insurance and reinsurance litigation and arbitration, professional and product liability, construction, cyber risk and data protection (including the 2016/679 GDPR).

Alexis also assists clients in complex court-appointed investigations relating to industrial risks, and drafting insurance contracts that comply with French law.

He teaches Civil Procedure and (Re)Insurance Litigation & Arbitration at the Paris Insurance Institute of Dauphine University, at the Law Faculty of Le Mans University and at the Law Faculty of Montpellier University.

He is also regularly invited to speak at conferences and colloquiums on matters of (re)insurance law and dispute resolution, and is a regular contributor to a variety of industry publications in relation with the same (inter alia: the Lamy Assurances, a leading insurance and reinsurance practitioners’ textbook in France; The Insurance & Reinsurance Law Review; The Class Action Law Review; etc).

He is a member of a number of associations including the Association Internationale du Droit des Assurances (AIDA), the Association des Professionnels de la Réassurance en France (APREF), the Association du Management des Risques et Assurances de l’Enterprise (AMRAE), the International Bar Association (IBA) and the Insurance and Reinsurance Legacy Association (IRLA).

Alexis also contributed to the fourth edition of Kennedys’ Global Legal Handbook, one of our most popular guides, which outlines the main legal and procedural issues that case handlers may encounter when dealing with claims across 53 jurisdictions globally.