The European Corporate Group in Paris held its annual “Year in Review” this past week, a client seminar on recent developments in French and U.S. Securities laws. The seminar was held in Shearman & Sterling’s Paris office and was attended by 70 representatives from the French government and 33 major companies (Agence des Participations de l’Etat, Agrogeneration SA, Air France - KLM Group, Alcatel-Lucent, Alstom, Areva, BNP Paribas, Bureau Veritas, Business Objects, Calyon, Canal Plus, Dassault Systèmes, Electricité de France, Eramet, France Télécom, GDF-Suez, GE Real Estate, Havas, Lafarge, Lazard, Lazard Natixis, L’Oréal, Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy, Rexel, Saint Gobain, Sanofi Aventis, SB Alliance, Société Générale, Sodexo, Suez Environnement, Technip, Thales, Thomson and Veolia Environnement).

Speakers included partners Hervé Letréguilly (Paris-Capital Markets/M&A), Cyrille Niedzielski (Paris-M&A), Bertrand Sénéchal (Paris-Capital Markets), Sami Toutounji (Paris-Capital Markets) and Robert Treuhold (Paris-Capital Markets/M&A); of counsel Christian Guilluy (Paris-M&A); counsel Aline Cardin (Paris-Capital Markets) and associate Françoise Even (Paris-Capital Markets).