Anissa Sahli is a member of the Paris Bar and a Partner specialising in regulatory compliance and insurance law, with more than fifteen years of experience across insurance groups, financial institutions and consulting firms.
Her background combines in-house legal roles, leading compliance projects in consulting and international interim management assignments, giving her a detailed understanding of her clients’ operational constraints and a resolutely pragmatic approach.
Anissa began her career in 2010 at MACSF Group, first in the Financing and Partnerships department and then in the Group Legal and Compliance department, where she led the group’s Sapin II, outsourcing (Solvency II), IDD and GDPR projects and represented the group at industry meetings of the French Insurance Federation (FFA). After qualifying as a lawyer in 2017, she joined 99 Advisory, where she headed the 15-strong Compliance practice and developed its Sapin II and GDPR compliance offerings.
She then served as Senior Compliance Officer at Bpifrance, where she was the lead on the anti-corruption programme and ISO 37001 certification, and represented the Compliance and Internal Control department on the Innovation Committee overseeing the use of artificial intelligence. As an independent adviser, she also supported BPCE International in Africa, including the sale of the group’s entities in Cameroon, Congo and Tunisia, interim management of the local Risk and Recovery departments, and coordination of Paris-based and local law firms.
Before joining the firm, Anissa was Senior Manager Compliance at a consulting firm, where she led the Insurance, Anti-Bribery & Corruption, GDPR/AI and Legal Department Transformation offerings, and also acted as the firm’s Deputy DPO.
Anissa advises banks, asset managers, insurers, mutual insurers and industrial groups on the design, implementation and oversight of their compliance frameworks. Her practice covers a range of sectors, including:
- Insurance and mutual insurance
- Banking and finance
- Asset and wealth management
- Industry
She regularly designs and delivers regulatory training for senior management, staff and sales networks.
Relevant experience:
- Outsourcing and oversight of critical or important outsourced functions
- Customer protection in insurance, including dormant life insurance contracts
- Governance of artificial intelligence use
- Disposals of entities and reorganisation of departments internationally (Africa)
- Negotiating and drafting IT, services, partnership and intra-group agreements