Sylvie Le Damany

For more than 30 years, Sylvie Le Damany has been assisting large national and international listed and unlisted companies, small and medium-sized enterprises, as well as players in the social economy sector, with compliance et de gouvernance.

Sylvie Le Damany is a recognized expert in business law and criminal law, both as counsel and in litigation

Sylvie Le Damany regularly assists senior management in conducting governance audits and mapping legal, criminal and ethical risks (internal control procedures, delegation of powers, internal and external professional alert systems, ethics and CSR charters, codes of business conduct, anti-corruption/LCBFT compliance program, etc.). She assists numerous executives in a preventive capacity and, if necessary, in times of crisis.

She conducts numerous training sessions in criminal business law, particularly in the fight against corruption and, more broadly, on issues relating to the civil and criminal liability of executive and non-executive directors.

Co-chair of the Permanent Legal Commission of the French Institute of Directors (IFA), she has been contributing for many years to the drafting of best practice guides in the field of corporate governance. Her most recent work includes menées 

• A Practical Guide to the Legal Responsibility of Directors (2020 update)
• The Place of Stakeholders in Corporate Governance (December 2020)

Sylvie Le Damany is also an active member of AMRAE, which brings together the risk managers of major French companies. She regularly speaks at annual meetings on governance and legal risk prevention issues. In 2019, she spoke on the topic ” Artificial intelligence and ethical risks : the limits not to be crossed”.

Sylvie Le Damany regularly writes articles on current issues in corporate criminal law, governance and compliance