Bertrand Legris has been appointed Deputy to the Director of Legal Affairs, in charge of monitoring
and coordinating enforcement activities.
Bertrand Legris, 45, is a lawyer and graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies. He worked in legal
practice for almost ten years as a lawyer in several prestigious law firms specialising in banking and
financial matters (Tinayre, Manceau and Archibald Andersen). He joined the Commission des opérations
de bourse at the end of 2001, initially as a policy officer in the Legal Affairs Division, where he was already specialised in monitoring market abuse investigations. From 2004 to 2007, he went on to become Head of the Legal Affairs Department in the Investigations and Market Surveillance Division at the AMF,
responsible in particular for writing the draft statements of complaint that serve as the basis for the
decisions of the AMF Board. From 2008 to September 2010, he was on secondment at the European
Commission in Brussels, in the Directorate General for the Internal Market and Financial Services, where
he worked on preparing the revision of the Market Abuse Directive, on proposing legislation on short
selling and on enforcement in financial market offences.
The new department within the Legal Affairs Division that is headed by Bertrand Legris takes part in
examining investigation and audit reports before they are forwarded to the Board, and is in charge of
coordination and of representing the Board in front of the Enforcement Committee.