Mrs Anne-Marie Nicolas > Loyens & Loeff > Luxembourg, Luxembourg > Lawyer Profile

Resourcing matters with ‘responsive lawyers who are proactive and diligent,’ and who have comprehensive knowledge across loan and capital markets financial products, Loyens & Loeff provides ‘an excellent client service’ across a range of secured and unsecured new money and refinancing and distressed financings. Spearheaded by Vassiliyan Zanev, the firm has gained acclaim for its fund financing work, with a myriad of major fund clients regularly turning to the firm for credit through subscription, capital call and NAV facilities, among other methods. Zanev is also well-versed at advising on structured finance matters, structuring of securitisation vehicles and the issuances of asset-backed securities. Anne-Marie Nicolas heads the secured lending team and as well as being ‘very skilled in insolvency situations’ is also adept at advising on new money acquisition and leveraged financing transactions. Other key members of the team include Audrey Jarreton, who excels at handling acquisition and real estate finance work, and Adrien Pierre, who has ‘very strong technical skills and great market knowledge’ in the context of financial services regulatory work.

Noted for its ‘incredible ability to combine expertise from different areas,’ including corporate, regulatory, finance and litigation, Loyens & Loeff‘s multi-disciplinary offering provides ‘thorough advice’ to start-ups, financial institutions and investors across a myriad advisory, transactional, litigation and risk management mandates. ‘Pragmatic’ team head Anne-Marie Nicolas is appreciated for her ability to analyse both business and legal considerations, particularly on crypto and tokenisation-related projects. Other key contacts include Sabrina Martin, who has a focus on start-ups and new technology legal issues, and Adrien Pierre, who deploys expansive regulatory expertise to good effect for fintech entities seeking licensing approvals and in the context of AML advice to clients in the cryptoasset space.

Loyens & Loeff provides a ‘high-quality level of work’ to investors and developers on the acquisition and disposal of commercial real estate assets, as well as advice on forward-funding and forward-commitment transactions, and on real estate management issues. Recently promoted to partner, Julien Lecler is gaining a strong reputation in the market, on both Luxembourg and Belgian mandates, as a result of his ‘business-oriented and deal-making’ attributes. Audrey Jarreton has enhanced the firm’s real estate finance capabilities since joining from Stibbe in January 2023, and both she and banking and finance head Anne-Marie Nicolas have handled work for lenders and borrowers on new money and refinancing transactions in the sector. Véronique Hoffeld co-heads the team alongside Lecler.