Our team originally built up its reputation in this field and continues to be recognised for its expertise in transactions of all sizes. We work with French and international banks, as well as various mezzanine funds.

Our work is not just confined to negotiating and drafting loan agreements and the corresponding guarantees. Each project is treated as a global transaction. We support our clients during all stages of this transaction from drawing up the term sheet to verifying the conditions precedent and reviewing acquisition documents and audit reports.

Our experience in acquisition finance is also recognised and appreciated by investors, as we help them arrange and negotiate their acquisition finance needs. Owing to this combined experience, we can now offer our financial clients a global service for their projects and a single point of contact, ensuring a consistent and efficient approach.

In addition to our expertise in acquisition finance, we assist clients (banks, mezzanine funds, or investors), in the restructuring or renegotiation of their loans, and more generally in turnarounds, from the onset of the discussions until the funding of the 'new money'.

We actively assist French and international banks and financial institutions with the legal and regulatory aspects of various financing transactions, notably syndicated and non-syndicated loans, credit facilities and secured financing.

Our team originally developed its expertise in this field and has since enhanced its experience by helping major companies launch their debt issuance programmes.

Our team also works with various French and international financial players on monitoring and applying French and EU banking regulations.

We are involved in both national and international asset finance projects, working alongside banks, businesses, local authorities and financial institutions, acting as lessor or lessee. We deal with a fairly broad range of assets and projects, but have special expertise in wind power technology, hydroelectric plants and railways.

We are one of the few law firms in France with great expertise in trade finance activities, particularly in trade between the EU and Eastern Europe and/or the Middle East or certain African states. This area encompasses pre-financing, letters of credit, performance bonds and sureties, export credit insurance (mainly against geopolitical risks), trade contracts, bills of lading, warrants and other shipping and ownership documents, not to mention commodity derivatives.

We support and assist our clients with their efforts to develop original and complex forms of financing, equity funding, loans or hybrid funding, whenever conventional sources of financing prove inadequate. We work closely with our clients during the structures’ initial development phases. We also need to identify and advise on any legal, tax-related and accounting issues raised by current regulations and their potential repercussions. We help develop, monitor and implement these various financing schemes throughout each of the above-mentioned phases.

We assist with various types of debt issuance programmes in France and internationally (e.g. Euro MTN, US MTN, US CP and Eurobonds). For many years, we have also been advising major French companies on implementing standard contracts for commodity derivatives (e.g. ISDA master agreements).