Nicolas Burnichon
Nicolas has significant external and in-house experience advising companies of all sizes, including multinational corporations, from various sectors, such as energy, aviation, retail, luxury, insurance, and finance, which enables him to have a transversal view a and pragmatic approach.
Nicolas is a founder of the French Chapter of the Association of Certified Sanctions Specialists. He is a regular contributor on sanctions topics to the International Review of Compliance and Business Ethics.
He started his career in the sanctions team of a major French bank in Paris and New York, dealing with U.S. and EU sanctions and export control issues before working several years at other international law firms in this field. Prior to joining Bennink Dunin-Wasowicz in 2024, Nicolas was an associate in the sanctions and export controls practice group of a New York law firm, based in Paris.
Credentials
- “The future forced-labor related requirement for EU operators: a comparative approach with US
law”, Revue Lamy Droit des Affaires, November 2023 - “Panorama of European sanctions against Russia and their impact”, Revue Lamy Droit des
affaires (Wolters Kluwer), October 2022 - “An Update on EU sanctions against Russia (May – September 2022)”, International Review of
Compliance and Business Ethics, October 2022 - “Business and Human Rights as part of the European Strategic Autonomy”, La Revue des juristes
de Sciences Po, March 2022 - “Collision Avoided? Court of Justice of the European Union Gives Effect to EU Blocking Statute
While Offering a Way Out of Conflict with U.S. Secondary Sanctions”, Compliance &
Enforcement, New York University School of Law, February 2022 - “The Emergence of economic sanctions regimes against China with still uncertain contours”, Le
Monde du droit, August 2020
- Speaker at the ACSS European annual conference, May 2023
- “Trends of French enforcement of sanctions and export control regulation”, Speaker at the
Benelux ACSS event, October 2022 - “Key Trends that will shape the Financial Crime Compliance Landscape in 2022”, interview
recorded for LexisNexis, Risk Solutions, January 2022
- ESSEC Business School, Advanced Master, Business Law & Management
- University of LilIe II, Master II
- Carleton University – Ottawa, Canada, Master I
- University of Lyon Jean Moulin, LL.B., English and American law University Diploma
Avocat, admitted to the Bar of France (Paris) in 2019
- French
- English