She then became a partner with the international law firm Lawrence Graham in Monaco, before setting up Tempest with partner William Easun in 2012, where she advises clients on corporate, banking and finance, and regulatory and compliance matters. In particular, Nathalie works on cross-border issues relating to the selling of financial products.

Thanks to her deep experience with Monegasque and French financial authorities, Nathalie advises on banking, financial and insurance regulation, working closely with various authorities including the French Autorité de Contrôle Prudentiel et de Résolution (ACPR), the Monegasque Commission de Contrôle des Activités Financières (CCAF), the Monegasque Service d’Information et de Contrôle sur les Services Financiers (SICCFIN), and the Monegasque Commission de Contrôle des Informations Nominatives (CCIN).

Nathalie’s clients include regulated institutions as well as Single and Multi-Family Offices. She acts for a great number of yacht brokers or associations on compliance issues.

Part of Nathalie’s work is training regulated and non-regulated entities on compliance, governance and other ethical issues.

Nathalie holds a Degree in Mediation obtained at the University of Nice Sophia, in 2016. She wished, alongside her activities as a legal adviser, to develop this sector and is registered with the Court of Appeal of Paris and of Aix-en-Provence as an accredited mediator.

Her specialities in respect of Mediation are banking, finance and insurance, intellectual property, data protection (employer and employees) and corporate law (related disputes).

After more than six years of Mediation practice, her beliefs on the usefulness of Mediation as an “amicable”, “extra-judicial” and confidential method of dispute resolution are based on the following points:

– All professions can play a role. Nathalie is not an “avocat” but any “avocat” can play an essential role in defending the interests of his or her clients during a Mediation, and Nathalie has conducted successful Mediations with “avocats” alongside the mediated parties;
– Mediation is a dynamic process; for example, the usefulness of a mediation clause, in a contract which allows the preservation of business secrecy, is no longer to be proven
– Mediation facilitates dialogue, allows crises to be resolved (“catharsis”), and brings peace; it is most useful in the world of work (partners, suppliers, clients, employer and employee);
– Mediation is a process that does not replace the judicial process but is based on the free choice of the mediated parties;
– Mediation allows the mediated parties to find a way to resolve their dispute;
– The mediator, an independent third party, who does not draft the mediation agreements; this is a privileged role for “avocats”.

Since 2016 Nathalie has conducted Mediations in private/public, family, administrative law, etc., corporate disputes.

Nathalie has been giving a Mediation course for many years at the FEDEM with this in mind.

Nathalie is a member of AMCO (Association Monégasque des Compliance Officers) and of the Chambre des Conseils Juridiques de la Principauté de Monaco, and speaks fluent French and English. She also lectures on mediation as well as on banking and finance Law.

In 2012, William set up Tempest Legal Services with partner Nathalie Tanzi, dedicated to giving specialist international advice on non-contentious matters to both private clients and organisations. William’s own practice focuses on private client work for individuals of all nationalities, including entrepreneurs, sports personalities, investors, hedge fund managers, brokers and Single Family Offices.

As well as advising on relocation to Monaco, he also assists with wills and estate planning in a multi-jurisdictional context; matters of capacity and guardianship; and the use of trusts.

William advises the Monaco Government in his role as an original member of the specially-formed Strategic Attractivity Commission created by His Serene Highness Prince Albert II in 2011 to advise on matters that attract individuals to live and work in Monaco. He continues to sit on that Commission.

He also sat on the Monaco Government Commission that assisted with the adhesion of Monaco to “The 1985 Hague Convention on the Law Applicable to Trusts and on their Recognition”, which occurred in 2008.

William is a British citizen and speaks fluent English and French. He is a member of the Law Society of England & Wales, the Society of Trusts and Estates Practitioners, and is Chairman of the Institute of Directors’ Monaco centre. He sits on the Committees of The Monte-Carlo Club, and The Air League in Monaco.