The firm’s Banking and Finance team advises financial institutions, asset managers on all legal and regulatory aspects of banking and financial activities. It also assists a client base primarily consisting of borrowers, issuers and sponsors in their financing and debt restructuring transactions.
Our practice combines recognised expertise in banking and financial regulation with strong transactional experience in financing and restructurings, enabling us to advise on both regulatory matters and the structuring and execution of complex transactions.
Banking and Financial Regulation
We advise and assist banking service providers and investment firms, in particular asset management companies, on the regulatory framework applicable to their activities.
We support our clients in the drafting and updating of the documentation required for their activities, including client-facing contractual documentation (account agreements, service agreements, discretionary management mandates), as well as documentation relating to compliance with their professional obligations, particularly with respect to client knowledge (MiFID) and anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CTF).
Our work also covers contractual arrangements with their service providers, including outsourcing agreements, third-party introduction arrangements, and distribution and marketing agreements.
We advise on regulatory developments, particularly in connection with AIFMD, UCITS, MiFID and AML/CTF frameworks.
We also represent clients before regulatory authorities, including the French Financial Markets Authority (AMF) and the Prudential Supervision and Resolution Authority (ACPR), in both licensing matters and disciplinary proceedings, at pre-contentious stages (including on-site inspections and responses to follow-up letters or formal notices) and in proceedings before the Sanctions Committee.
More broadly, we assist our clients in ensuring the compliance of their operations, activities and products.
Financing and Debt Restructuring
Our team has extensive experience in structuring and implementing a wide range of financing transactions, particularly in acquisition finance (including LBOs, PE and public M&A), corporate finance and private placements. We also advise on real estate financing and asset-based financings.
We assist borrowers, issuers and sponsors in structuring transactions and negotiating the related financing documentation.
Our team also supports clients in financial and debt restructuring transactions, including in the context of insolvency proceedings, financial reorganisations and refinancings.
We work closely with the firm’s Corporate, Private Equity and Restructuring teams.
The team is also regularly involved in debt restructuring transactions involving recapitalisations, debt-to-equity conversions and the issuance of sophisticated debt instruments.
