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Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP > The Legal 500 Rankings

Finance > Derivatives and structured products Tier 3

Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP has a strong derivatives practice in both Paris and London, the latter being home to both practice head Karine Imbrosciano and lead banking and finance partner Dimitrios Logizidis. The firm handles structuring, documentation, collateralisation and regulatory issues arising from derivatives and structured products transactions across a diverse range of asset classes, among them equity, credit, fixed income, fund, commodity, energy, inflation, weather, and property derivatives, repos and securities lending deals. Its clients are investment banks, financial sponsors and corporates, among them Citigroup and Natixis. Imbrosciano and Logizidis recently assisted Europcar Mobility Group with a €450m securitisation programme, which involved the negotiation of complex hedging arrangements.

Finance > Securitisation Tier 4

Th securitisation team at Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP stands out for its 'availability, approachability and friendliness'. The firm's London and Paris offices are home to a highly regarded securitisation and asset-backed finance practice, which handles whole-business, trade receivables, mortgage, lease, and CLO transactions on behalf of financial institutions and multinational corporates. Practice head Dimitrios Logizidis and the newly promoted Samir Bensaker  are 'very professional and knowledgeable partners'. Logizidis frequently acts for Europcar Mobility Group in securitisations, a recent example being its €450m programme in the first transaction structured in England using two bankruptcy remote SPVs. Counsel Alexander Tompkins is 'a fantastic lawyer, who responds super quick'.

Projects, energy and natural resources > Power (including electricity, nuclear and renewables) Tier 4

The team at Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP is led by Colin Graham; he has expertise in corporate, commercial and M&A work in power. An example of the cohort’s abilities in alternative energy, it its advising EDF on large-scale nuclear projects. Counsel Matteo Matteucci has particular experience working on cross-border M&A transactions in energy and natural resources-related M&A transactions.

Projects, energy and natural resources > Oil and gas Tier 5

Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP is well known for its Africa-based transactional work in the oil & gas space, receiving praise for its bench of ‘sophisticated and industry-experienced professionals’. Practice head Colin Graham is a corporate and commercial specialist who is well-versed in international gas and LNG projects in particular.

Dispute resolution > International arbitration Tier 6

Focused on commercial and investment disputes, predominantly in relation to energy and infrastructure, Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP‘s London group has ‘very detailed knowledge of investment arbitration‘. London IDR leader Rupert Reece ‘brings gravity to hearings‘; and raised to partner in June 2022, Saadia Bhatty heads the investment arbitration arm of the firm’s London’s international arbitration practice. At counsel level, Hannah McIrvine acts for clients from the construction, energy, commercial, technology, and insurance sectors.

France > Derivatives and structured finance

The experienced team at Gide Loyrette Nouel A.A.R.P.I. remains a leader in the practice space, advising major domestic and international financial institutions (BNP Paribas, Société Générale, Bank of America Merrill Lynch, HSBC, Barclays) and asset managers, services airlines (Air France) and corporates such as Veolia across such sectors as car rentals, waste management and data and analytics, on a wide range of securitisation transactions and asset-backed finance transactions. The team is headed by Arnaud Duhamel, who focuses on strategic equity derivatives transactions and equity financings, and structured derivative products specialist Laurent Vincent. Counsel Clément Vandevooghel brings expertise to loan portfolio sales (including non-performing loans), asset-backed lending and debt capital markets. Samir Bensaker was promoted to partner in July 2022. Co-practice head Xavier Chassin de Kergommeaux departed in February 2023.