Mr Samir Bensaker > Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile
Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP Offices
125 OLD BROAD STREET
LONDON
EC2N 1AR
England
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Mr Samir Bensaker
Position
Based in Gide’s London office, Samir advises international financial institutions, investment funds and corporations on their structured finance and securitisation transactions.
His expertise covers the structuring of domestic and international transactions across many different asset classes (including SME loans, trade receivables, lease receivables, syndicated loans, whole business securitisations and project bonds), sectors (such as financial institutions, oil & gas, agribusiness, manufacturing, real estate) and jurisdictions, including in emerging markets.
Samir has been involved in many innovative and high-profile structured finance transactions in Europe over recent years, such as one of the largest trade receivables securitisation programmes in Europe, the first rated car fleet securitisation in Belgium and the setting up of a major French project bonds transaction. Samir also regularly acts for clients on various other finance matters, such as loans portfolio sales, the setting up of debt funds, complex debt financings, debt trading and risk transfer transactions.
Career
2018 – present: Counsel, Gide Loyrette Nouel (2018)
September 2015 – January 2018: Associate, Gide Loyrette Nouel New York (secondment) (2015)
May 2013 – January 2018: Associate, Gide Loyrette Nouel London (2013)
November 2010 – April 2013: Associate, Allen & Overy Paris (2010)
2019: Qualified as Solicitor, England and Wales (2019)
Languages
French and English
Education
2010: Admitted to the Paris Bar (2010)
2007 – 2008: Master 2 Droit des Affaires (Business law), Université Panthéon Assas (Paris II) (2008)
Lawyer Rankings
London > Finance > Securitisation
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‘.