Catherine Moreau writes about European regulation the way it reaches the desk of an in-house lawyer in Brussels or Paris — not as abstract policy, but as a set of specific compliance obligations that must be met by Tuesday. Her analysis for the Vetrov & Partners Insights publication focuses on the regulatory frameworks that European companies with Russian operations encounter daily: EU sanctions compliance, the GDPR obligations arising from data flows between Russia and the EU, and the treatment of Russian subsidiaries under French and broader European law.
Her perspective is regulatory and operational. She writes for the European in-house team that inherited a Russian subsidiary it did not choose, a data-processing arrangement it did not design, and a sanctions exposure it did not anticipate — and that now needs practical guidance on what must be done, in what order, and by when. Catherine's analysis is informed by direct work with multinational groups managing exactly this kind of residual Russian regulatory exposure, and by a French lawyer's appreciation for the difference between what the regulation says and what the regulator expects.
She contributes to the Insights publication because the European regulatory dimension of Russian-connected matters is one that Russian counsel cannot cover alone — and because the audience for her analysis, European compliance officers and general counsel, is the audience that arrives at the firm's website asking questions about Russian operations that start on the European side.