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Pierre-Olivier Leblanc

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Featured award

Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa, 2025

Insurance (Individual ranking) - ‘Competence, responsiveness, availability, ability to facilitate solutions, great ease in managing complex and sometimes very divisive situations, in an international environment.’; ‘Detailed knowledge of the insurance world. Good coordination between the firm's departments.’; ‘Available, efficient, very good technical and regulatory knowledge.’

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Pierre-Olivier is the Head of our Insurance, Industrial Risk, and Transport group in Paris.

Pierre-Olivier's clients value his attention to detail and rigor. He is recognized as one of the top ranked lawyers for insurance in France.

Pierre-Olivier acts on large, complex, and international commercial and insurance claims. These include professional and product liability cases and industrial risk matters in the energy, chemical, construction and shipping fields. His command of both civil and common law makes him especially effective in cases where both are involved.

Outside of contentious work, Pierre-Olivier can support you with putting in place international insurance programs and policy wording.

Expertise

Services and Groups

Disputes & investigations
Product liability & product safety
Insurance & reinsurance disputes
Class actions, collective redress & mass consumer claims

Sectors

Logistics & transport
Energy & infrastructure
Manufacturing & industrials
Financial institutions & insurance
Insurance

CV

Since 2018 Partner, Taylor Wessing, Paris
2004 - 2018 Partner, HFW
2002 Admitted to the Paris Bar
1999 Masters degree, Maritime Law, University of Lille
1998 LLM, International Economic Law
1998 Certificate of English Law, University of Warwick

Career

Since 2018 Partner, Taylor Wessing, Paris
2004 - 2018 Partner, HFW

Education

2002 Admitted to the Paris Bar
1999 Masters degree, Maritime Law, University of Lille
1998 LLM, International Economic Law
1998 Certificate of English Law, University of Warwick

Memberships & Associations

Legal Commission of the Association of Professionals of Reinsurance in France (APREF)
CEFAREA-ARIAS
Member of FDCC
AFDM
IBA
AMRAE
AIDA
AJAR

Additional languages

English

Awards

Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa, 2025

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Insurance (Individual ranking) - ‘Competence, responsiveness, availability, ability to facilitate solutions, great ease in managing complex and sometimes very divisive situations, in an international environment.’; ‘Detailed knowledge of the insurance world. Good coordination between the firm's departments.’; ‘Available, efficient, very good technical and regulatory knowledge.’

Legal 500 Europe, Middle East and Africa, 2025

Dispute resolution: commercial litigation

Chambers & Partners France 2025

Insurance (Individual ranking) - "Pierre-Olivier Leblanc is of a very good technical level and is very available. It is always easy to work with him." ; "He is technical and explains everything in a very precise and clear manner. He has a great approach, knows our clients and always finds solutions." ; "He has good experience in insurance law and a good international network. He wins a lot of cases and gets very good results." ; "Pierre-Olivier Leblanc is very kind, understands matters very quickly and answers with a lot of pragmatism."

Chambers & Partners Europe 2024

Since 2012, Leading individual - Insurance - France - band 2: Pierre-Olivier Leblanc moves up in the rankings in 2024. He frequently acts in product liability and industrial risk claims, as well as advising on coverage issues of insurance policies. He also represents insurers in business interruption claims due to COVID-19. ‘Pierre-Olivier Leblanc stands out for his technical skills, availability, the subtlety of his analyses, his ability to manage high-conflict situations, anticipation of our requests, very good knowledge of all the market players, and comfort in working in an international context.’ - ‘Pierre-Olivier Leblanc is one of the best insurance claims lawyers in the Paris market.’

Leading individual - France: Clients recommend ‘his sharp analysis, his rigor and the high quality of his work’, and praise ‘his perfect knowledge of his files, his multiple skills in the area of civil and industrial liability and his excellent knowledge of private international law’.”

Leading individual: (Re)insurance work.

Leading individual - Insurance - France: Pierre-Olivier is recognised as one of the 25 “ranked lawyers” for Insurance in France.

Leading individual - France: Pierre-Olivier Leblanc has experience in marine, energy, transportation and construction matters’. He is involved in litigation and arbitration on a national and international level. He is described as 'available and responsive' and his customers feel they can 'count on him in urgent situations.

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