DLA Piper offers a good market coverage advising banks and debt funds. The team has a strong mid to upper-mid cap corporate financing and LBO financing practice, including unitranche, bridge loans and RCF facilities. Additionally, the firm houses strong real estate expertise that covers various property assets as well as solid domestic and African project finance capabilities. The practice is headed by real estate finance expert Erwan Lacheteau and includes the talented Sophie Lok and Romain Guénin, while Eric Villateau focuses on project financing work.
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- ‘The service is excellent.’
- ‘High availability and adaptability; very good understanding of business issues; highly precise legal analysis.’
- ‘This is a talented team that provides a level of service that is hard to improve upon.’
- ‘The team is particularly responsive and professional. The level of service is above market market standards’
- ‘Good responsiveness, understanding of issues.’
- ‘Sophie Lok is exceptional: very attentive, very available, very professional and able to adapt to any type of situation.’
- ‘Eric Villateau (partner) and Aurélie Bossert (counsel) are very attentive and available and above all solution providers. Very good negotiators.’
- ‘Erwan Lacheteau mainly works on domestic and international real estate financing transactions. He has excellent knowledge of the market. He combines technical expertise with great negotiation skills. Discussions always take place in a calm, constructive and respectful manner. Romain Guénin is reactive and has great negotiation skills'.
Kernmandanten
- Société Générale group
- BNP Paribas
- Blackstone Group International Partners LLP
- The Carlyle Group
- Natixis and Caisse d’Epargne and Banque Populaire (BPCE group)
- Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Banking
- Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations
- ING Bank N.V.
- Goldman Sachs
- Norddeutsche Landesbank Girozentrale (Nord/LB)
Highlight-Mandate
- Advising a pool of banks of the Crédit Agricole Group in the context of the 200 million euros bridge loan to capital increase made available to Clariane for its global restructuring plan.
- Advised Goldman Sachs on a €385m refinancing package granted to Olympic Lyonnais.
- Advising Blackstone on the refinancing of several acquisitions of logistics assets located in France.
Anwält*innen
Partner*innen der nächsten Generation
Juniorpartner*innen, die im Markt von Mandanten und Wettbewerbern anerkannt werden und in einigen Mandaten eine Schlüsselrolle einnehmen.
Praxisleitung
Erwan Lacheteau
Weitere Kernanwält*innen
Eric Villateau; Sophie Lok; Romain Guénin; Aurélie Bossert