Alain Le Fort > MLL Legal > Geneva, Switzerland > Lawyer Profile
MLL Legal Offices
65 rue du Rhône
PO Box 3199
1211 Geneva 3
Switzerland
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Alain Le Fort
Work Department
M&A and Private Equity | Arbitration and Litigation | Capital Markets, Banking, Finance and Fintech
Position
Alain le Fort has extensive experience in banking and finance, and regularly advises clients on banking regulatory and asset recovery matters. He founded the firm Lachenal & Le Fort, that later merged with MLL in 2012 to become MLL.
Career
Partner with MLL (since 1983), Associate with the Firm (1979–1983), Trainee in the shipping department of a law firm in Memphis, Tennessee (1978–1979), Admitted to the bar in Switzerland (1977)
Languages
French, English
Memberships
Union Internationale des Avocats, UIA (President of the Swiss National Committee (2008–2013), Fédération Suisse des Avocats, FSA (Member of the Board since 2008), Ordre des Avocats de Genève, OdA, Chairman of the Board (2004–2006), Member of the Board (1998–2010), Association Genevoise de Droit des Affaires, AGDA
Education
Credit Training and Development Program with The Chase Manhattan Bank NA in New York (1978), Admitted to the bar in Switzerland (1977), University of Geneva, lic. iur. (1975)
Lawyer Rankings
Switzerland > Banking and finance: Geneva
MLL Legal provides a wide range of legal services to financial institutions, funds, investors, and private individuals from regulatory advice, such as license requests, to complex financing transactions, including asset lending and acquisition financing. The team is headed by Dmitry A Pentsov, whose practice covers syndicated loans, pre-export financing, and other similar transactions, with a particular focus on Central and Eastern Europe, and Mona Stephenson, who advises Swiss and international companies, banks and corporations on national and international debt financing, private equity, corporate governance and commercial contracts. Jean-Luc Herbez, Bernard Lachenal, and Alain Le Fort are further key contacts.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: Geneva
- Banking and finance: Zurich
- Capital markets
- Commercial, corporate and M&A
- Employment
- Healthcare and life sciences
- Private client
- Dispute resolution: litigation
- Insolvency and corporate recovery
- Public law
- Sports law
- Tax
- Transport
- Competition
- Dispute resolution: arbitration