Hughes Hubbard Elects Compliance Attorney Nicolas Tollet to Partner

Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP announced that Nicolas Tollet has been elected a partner in the firm’s Anti-Corruption & Internal Investigations practice.

The firm said He joined the firm as counsel in December 2016 from Technip, where he served as vice president of group compliance, and was based in Paris and Rio de Janeiro. Tollet’s practice focuses on internal investigations and compliance, with particular focus on anticorruption and anti-money laundering.

Tollet has experience in compliance, including navigating monitorships, conducting internal and external investigations, establishing compliance programs and conducting third-party due diligence, the firm said. He has experience with anti-corruption and anti-money laundering legislations and has worked on several of the largest transnational corruption cases in the world.

Tollet is involved in the international compliance community. He regularly publishes articles on compliance, speaks at international conferences, and lectures on anti-corruption. In 2017, he was among 37 professionals selected by Global Investigations Review as the leading in-house professionals worldwide for internal investigations, and he is ranked Tier 1 by Legal 500 and identified as a Next Generation Lawyer.

He is admitted to practice in New York, Paris and the U.S. Supreme Court.