Hogan Lovells has paid tribute to Valentin Ribet, a litigation associate in its Paris office who was killed at the Bataclan concert hall in the terrorist attacks on Friday night.


In a statement the firm said: “This is an awful tragedy and hard for any of us to truly comprehend. We are shocked by both our loss and the wider events in the city.

Valentin Ribet
Valentin Ribet

“Valentin worked in the litigation team, specialising in white collar crime. He was a talented lawyer, extremely well liked, and a wonderful personality in the office. He was 26.

“Our thoughts at this time are with Valentin and his family as well as with his colleagues in the office and across the firm.”

The firm said it would keep his details on its website until after Ribet’s funeral as a mark of respect.

Before joining Hogan Lovells in September last year Ribet had spent time as a stagiaire, or trainee, at Simmons & Simmons, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer and French firm Reinhart Marville Torre.

He undertook an LLM in international business law at the London School of Economics in 2013/14 and the university noted on Twitter that its “hearts were filled with sadness at this news”.