SPEAKER
Safine
Hadri
Partner – Head of Regulatory & Compliance and Global product Head for ESG
Kennedys
Safine Hadri is Kennedys' Sustainability and ESG Global product group head and a Partner in the Paris office where she leads the regulatory and compliance in insurance and environmental law practice. Safine has extensive expertise in compliance matters, contract management, including complex regulatory issues, authorisations and cross-border matters for insurance sector, and for corporate and commercial clients. She advises players in the insurance sector (insurers, reinsurers, brokers, and other intermediaries, mutuals, Insurtechs) on their products and services, contractual matters (distribution and commercial arrangements, outsourcing agreements, product terms and governance, transformation projects…), as well as compliance issues (including relations with national and international authorities), and integrating recent regulatory developments into marketing processes. She also assists industrial clients in their environmental regulatory issues, including government relations and day-to-day business management, as well as civil, administrative or criminal litigation. Safine regularly advises clients on the application of the developing ESG regulatory framework, including ESG reporting obligations, ESG compliance and corporate due diligence duties, climate related issues and climate finance. She helps clients to mitigate their ESG regulatory risks through wordings and other draft contract clauses to protect against default by co-contractors and sanctions by regulators. Safine is a lecturer at the University of Aix-Marseille within the Master 2 Environnement Sécurité Qualité programme, and teaches a course on insurance and environmental risks at the Paris Insurance Institute of Dauphine University, and at the Master 2 in Insurance Law of Montpellier. Additionally, she runs training courses on insurance law and compliance, and also on environmental risk management, for professional associations, The Flit Network and for The Institute of International Transport Law, as well as for professional training organisations, Abilways and Lefevre Dalloz. Safine is a member of The Association Internationale du Droit des Assurances (AIDA), the Young AIDA, The Association des Anciens élèves de l'Institut d'Assurance de Paris (ADIAP), The Association pour le Management des Risques et des Assurances de l'Entreprise (AMRAE) and the Association of Insurance and Reinsurance lawyers (AJAR). She is a regular contributor to specialist publications, and speak French, English, Spanish and Arabic.
