Financial law and financial services

The team is involved in infrastructure and PPP financing, advising developers, lenders (banks and bondholders) and/or investors on infrastructure projects conducted at both the State and local authority level, particularly in the transport, environmental, education, telecom, energy and "social" infrastructure sectors.

The team assists lenders, funds and other financial institutions, as well as developers (sponsors) in arranging greenfield and brownfield financing for renewable energy projects (wind, photovoltaic, biomass, methanization, etc.). We are regularly involved in the legal and tax structuring of financing transactions (senior debt, mezzanine, bridge loan) and in preparing the contractual documentation.

We assist lenders and borrowers in the legal and tax structuring of their financing transactions and in negotiating and drafting the contractual documentation relating to acquisition and LBO transactions (credit, bridge, mezzanine) in support of our M&A and Private Equity teams.

The team works alongside lenders and borrowers in drafting and negotiating credit documentation for real estate financing (share and asset deals): loan agreements, intercreditor agreements, security interests.

We advise lenders and borrowers on asset financing (transport, industrial equipment, etc.), particularly in the structuring of domestic and cross-border recourse or non-recourse transactions and deconsolidating arrangements.

Disintermediated formats (standalone bonds or EMTN sub-programs, German law formats (SSD/NSV) and negotiable debt securities) are increasingly used as a substitute for or complement to traditional bank financing - most types of assets (corporate loans, real estate financing, acquisition financing) are concerned. The team advises both issuers and underwriters on the implementation of these transactions, capitalizing on its lawyers’ experience and expertise in market instruments and related contractual techniques.

Our firm's size, our close relationships with expert financial services consulting firms, and our large client base of financial institutions, particularly mutual insurers, explain the historical and very active development of our financial services teams and expertise. Covering a wide range of services and providers (banking, investment and payment services, asset management, insurance, etc.), our financial services expertise is especially relevant and sought-after in the current context of profound regulatory change, particularly at the European level, in these highly regulated sectors (emergence of fintechs, alternative financiers, etc.).