Sylvestre GOSSOU

Possessing a doctorate degree in law, Sylvestre GOSSOU holds a Master Degree in Private Law. He specializes in legal issues of insurance products’ distribution, the Insurance Contract Law, legal regulation of insurance and reinsurance companies and the reinsurance.

His clients are traditional insurance players (insurance companies, insurance intermediaries, reinsurance companies), as well as entities for which insurance business is an auxiliary activity (banks, commercial credit companies, supermarkets, car dealers, etc.)

As a lawyer specialized in the Commercial Law of Africa (particularly, OHADA Law), Sylvestre GOSSOU provides legal support to economic operators in running their investment projects in Africa. He is also a permanent member of the Scientific Committee of the Africa Banking Forum and of the African Insurance Forum (Forum Africain de l’Assurance).

Sylvestre GOSSOU is a co-founder of the de “Bank-insurance column” (Chronique de bancassurance) in the Banque & Droit journal.
He is also a consultant for Lexis Nexis’ Insurance Compliance solution (insurance compliance management software).

PUBLICATIONS :

- Insurance distribution by banks (book), Presses Universitaires d'Aix-Marseille, 2006

- Insurance intermediation (book), Editions l’Argus de l’assurance, 2007 (co-author).

- Current legal issues in bancassurance (bi-monthly column), Banque et droit, (co-author).

- Draft loan insurance reform: legal issues (article), Banque et droit, Jan/Feb 2009.

- Insurance prospecting: Court of Cassation confirms applicability of the Consumer Code (commentary on an order dated 2 October 2007), Petites Affiches, 17 January 2008.

- The Banking Commission and ACAM: towards a marriage of convenience? (article), La Tribune de l’assurance, Dec 2008.

- The Châtel II Act: impact on insurance intermediation (article), La Tribune de l’assurance, May 2008.

- Consumer credit directive: impact on loan insurance (article), Banque et droit, Jul/Aug 2008.

- Impact on bancassurance of the new legal framework for insurance intermediation (article), RGDA 2007 no. 1.

- Reinforcement of the duty of information and advice on bankers subscribing to group insurance policies: early application of new insurance intermediation regulations, (commentary on an order issued by a plenary session of the Court of Cassation, 2 March 2007), Petites Affiches, 25 May 2007.

ASSOCIATIVE ACTIVITIES :

Sylvestre GOSSOU is a member of the International Association of Insurance Law and the National Association of the Bank Lawyers (Association Nationale des Juristes de Banque).

Doctor degree in law,
Attorney at law at the Paris Bar

Tél : +33 1 45 53 71 85
Fax : +33 1 83 64 23 73
E-mail : s.gossou@bmavocats.com