Structured finance / debt restructuring

Our areas of expertise:  Financing of real estate assets (offices, logistic premises, healthcare premises, managed residences, co-living, hospitality, retail and residential premises, data centers, etc.)  Financing of real estate developments (sales off plan (VEFA)/property development contracts/other)  Financing the acquisition of companies (in particular LBOs)  Bank or bond, senior or mezzanine, corporate or mortgage financing  Environmental social and governance financing (green loan with ESG criteria)  Debt restructuring, whether on a voluntary or contentious basis, and at all stages of insolvency proceedings (ad hoc, conciliation, safeguard, judicial reorganization or liquidation proceedings).

Our assignments

Structuring and restructuring of complex financing transactions

in coordination with the firm’s other departments, in particular the tax and corporate departments, assistance in arranging financing

Negotiating and drafting contractual agreements

negotiation and drafting of financing documentation (credit agreement, security interests, etc.)

Strategic advice and assistance to French and international investors

(institutional investors, investment funds, SCPIs, listed property companies, family offices, etc.) and for the establishment of credit facilities, of alternative lenders and debt funds

Recent track record

  • Advising a major real estate developper for the implementation of a 2.9 billion euro facility to finance its funding requirements, combined with environmental criteria
  • Advising a group with the implementation of a facility for the acquisition of a portfolio of logistics assets
  • Advising a foreign credit institution in the context of the voluntary restructuring of a real estate facility, including the incorporation of a trust
  • Advising a French institutional investor within the framework of the restructuring of a real estate facility, under ad hoc proceedings.

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