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Structured financing Lawyers

From globalisation and market sophistication to fiercer competition at a domestic and international level, greater regulatory pressure and increasing legislation – the environment and market for structured finance transactions are constantly changing in terms of practices and techniques.
To ensure the success of your transactions and manage risk in this changing environment, it is important to structure them securely, in accordance with applicable regulations and banking market practices. Another area for attention is the production of financing documentation, which must respond to your internal constraints and secure each transaction in connection with all types of financing. Finally, it is important to ensure an even distribution of risks between the parties involved in each transaction and ensure that each party's interests are protected according to the type of transaction at hand.

This triple challenge means you need to have access to a reliable source of legal knowledge and be advised by specialised and dedicated professionals able to provide you with an excellent quality of service in a sometimes very short timeframe.
Our Structured Finance team, composed of experts in banking and finance, supports you to ensure the smooth treatment and reliability of all types of financing, in relation to national and cross-border transactions.
Based on an in-depth knowledge of practices, our team will assist you on structuring your finance transactions (to define the terms and conditions and specific characteristics of each transactions and guide your choices based on applicable regulations and potential developments) all along the life of a transaction until completion (drafting and negotiation of financing and related documentation, term sheet and final documents, managing relations with the various participants, checking conditions precedent, and proceeding to necessary formalities in relation to the financing and security documentation). Our specialists advise our client on corporate finance transactions (financing of working capital, refinancing of existing debt and debt restructuring), acquisition financing (acquisition of companies' shares or goodwill, with or without leverage – including LBOs – and capex and external growth financing) as well as project finance transactions (infrastructure and renewable energies notably).
Our team also advises on real-estate finance transactions, stock financing and asset finance. It also has significant experience in terms of Euro PP financing, both in loan and bond format, with or without security interests.
In collaboration with other teams of our firm, whose expertise are called upon on a case-by-case basis, our experts are able to offer you a comprehensive understanding of all legal and tax issues which may arise over the course of a financing transaction.

 
Gregory Benteux
Grégory Benteux
Partner
Head of Securitisation and Structured Finance
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Grégory has joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2009 and is in charge of the securitisation and structured finance and debt activities. He specialises in both domestic and offshore securitisation and structured...
Geoffrey Levesque
Geoffrey Levesque
Partner
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Geoffrey joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2018 as Counsel in charge of project finance. He has developed a recognized expertise in financing in the infrastructure and energy sectors (greenfield or brownfield...
Laurent Mion
Laurent Mion
Partner
Lawyer
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Laurent joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 1986. A partner in the firm since 1998 and former member of the Supervisory Board, he now manages the Banking and Finance Department, which employs around twenty...
Jérôme Sutour
Jérôme Sutour
Partner
Head of Financial Services
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Jérôme joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2007. He is responsible for the Financial Services Group within the firm's Banking, Finance & Insurance Department and co-chairs the Funds and Regulation Practice...
Chazot-Alexandre
Alexandre Chazot
Counsel
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Alexandre Chazot joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2019. Alexandre's practice focuses on banking and financial matters, in both domestic and international transactions, with special emphasis on structured...
Francois Poirier
Francois Poirier
Counsel
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
François joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2023 as counsel and real estate finance specialist. He is involved in banking and finance law and in particular in real estate finance
Amaury Dubois
Amaury Dubois
Associate
Lawyer
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Amaury joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2022. He is involved in Banking & Finance on a wide range of domestic and cross-border transactions and in particular in project financing. He advises lenders, borrowers...
Myriam Issad
Myriam Issad
Associate
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Myriam Issad advises financial institutions, issuers and investors on numerous market transactions in the area of debt securities (bond issues, European private placements (Euro PP), EMTN programmes...
Camille Lartigue
Camille Lartigue
Associate
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Camille is attorney-at-law in the state of New York, has joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in March 2019 and is working in the Securitisation and Structured Debt team. Camille specialises in both domestic...
Sarah Marguerie
Sarah Marguerie
Associate
France, Neuilly-sur-Seine
Sarah Marguerie joined CMS Francis Lefebvre in 2021. She is involved in banking law and in particular in project finance.