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Lawyer and financial investment adviser (FIA): compatibility and limits
By Raphaël MORENON12 August 2025As a privileged confidant at key moments in our personal and professional lives, lawyers are often confronted with questions that go beyond the strictly legal framework to touch on finance and wealth. The dividing line between legal advice and investment recommendations can seem very fine. It was to provide a framework for this second activity that the status of financial investment adviser (FIA) was created, a regulated profession designed to protect savers. The question of the compatibility of the lawyer's robe and the FIA hat is far from anecdotal: it raises fundamental ethical and practical issues. This article explores the possibilities, limits and incompatibilities of this dual positioning, drawing on our expertise in banking and financial law. Lawyers and financial investment advisers: a possible ancillary activity Financial regulation has been designed to clarify roles and protect investors. In this context,...
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