Ms Laetitia Lemercier > Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I. > Paris, France > Lawyer Profile

Ms Laetitia Lemercier

+33 (0)1 40 75 22 18 laetitia.lemercier@gide.com

Work Department

Banking & Finance; Projects (Finance & Infrastructure)

Position

Laetitia Lemercier was admitted to the Paris Bar in 2001 and specialises in structured finance. She is a member of Gide’s Banking & Finance practice group and has significant experience in real estate finance, project finance, acquisition and corporate finance, as well as in debt restructuring.

She regularly advises financial institutions or borrowers and investors at all stages of the structuring or restructuring, drafting and negotiation of complex financing transactions.

Laetitia Lemercier co-authored the model Euro PP credit agreement and is an external speaker at Science Po Paris. She holds a postgraduate degree in business law and taxation and a master’s degree in business law from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas, as well as a master’s degree in management sciences in finance from the University of Paris IX Dauphine.

Laetitia Lemercier is recommended in banking and finance law by the international legal guide Legal 500 EMEA.

Career

Laetitia regularly advises French and foreign institutions (lead arrangers, senior or mezzanine lenders) or borrowers (investors, corporate, sponsors) on the structuring or restructuring, drafting and negotiation of complex financial transactions, acquisition or real estate development transactions, infrastructure financing, acquisition financing, asset and fleet financing, off-balance sheet and corporate financing, as well as refinancing transactions in these same areas.

Laetitia has worked on the PPP financing of the Seine Musicale on the Ile Seguin, which was the first mixed financing (banking and securitisation) of a PPP, on the mixed refinancing of the PPP relating to the Ministry of Defence in Balard and to the Palais de Justice (court house) in Paris. She advised on the refinancing of the Eiffarie debt for the acquisition of the motorway company APRR in 2012, 2015 and 2020. She has also worked on the financing of the acquisition of portfolios of logistics assets, hotels or EHPAD and the refinancing of the debt and development of a hotel group.

Laetitia recently acted for the sponsors in the financing of the development of a campus in Nanterre. She has been involved in the unwinding of several PPP financings (including recently the Nantes University Hospital). She also recently advised the concessionaire for the refinancing of the Tancarville and Normandy bridges and one of the potential buyers (not retained) in the financing of the acquisition of Equans.

Partner, Gide Loyrette Nouel (2016)
Joins Gide Loyrette Nouel (2001)

Languages

French and English

Education

Admitted to the Paris Bar (2001)
Post-graduate degree (DESS) in business and tax law, Paris II Panthéon-Assas University  (1999)
Master’s degree in business law, Paris II Panthéon-Assas University (1998)
Master’s degree in economics and finance, Paris IX University  (1995)