Kramer Levin has named Jean-Pierre Mattout head of its European banking and finance litigation team. A partner with the firm since 2004, he co-heads the practice with Hubert de Vauplane. Jean-Pierre Mattout’s practice primarily focuses on litigation and advice on national and international banking and financial transactions, mergers and acquisitions, company law and corporate governance issues.  Mr Mattout  has been involved in all types of banking and financial transactions, national and international. As former general counsel of the Paribas Group, a position held for more than ten years, he was involved in many of the bank's  M&A  transactions. From 2002 until 2004, he was the General Counsel of the France Telecom Group.