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25 RUE DE MARIGNAN
75008 PARIS
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Patrice Doat
Work Department
Structured Finance Group
Position
Partner
Patrice leads the firm’s Paris office structured finance group. He advises investment banks, private equity and debts funds, fintech companies and asset managers on structured finance deals, covered bonds and securitisations. These deals include Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities (RMBS), Commercial Mortgage-Backed Securities (CMBS), Asset-Backed Securities (ABS), Asset-Backed Commercial Paper (ABCP), project bonds, and whole business and synthetic securitisations. More recently, Patrice has advised on portfolio sales.
Patrice also has in-depth knowledge of European regulation applying to securitisation deals.
Career
Patrice was named partner in 2004 after working 10 years as a finance lawyer in Paris, Budapest and London in a leading French law firm. He joined Linklaters Paris in 2011 to lead the structured finance and securitisation practice. He is also the lead relationship partner worldwide within the firm for the entities of the Crédit Agricole SA’s group.
Languages
French, English, German
Memberships
Patrice is a member of the securitisation committee on Paris Europlace, an industry body which promotes the French financial services sector.
Education
Patrice graduated in business and tax law at Lyon III University in Lyon, France and Burgundy University in Dijon, France.
He also holds a master degree in Economy and Finance from Sciences-Po Paris, France and a L.L.M from Christian Albrecht University in Kiel, Germany.
Lawyer Rankings
France > Derivatives and structured finance
(Leading individuals)Linklaters has considerable securitisation expertise that spans a comprehensive range of products: auto and other consumer loans, ABS and trade receivables as well as acquisitions and related financing of non-performing loan portfolios. The Paris team also works in close combination with colleagues from the firm’s international offices to handle cross-border transactions, assisting both originators and investment banks. Practice head Patrice Doat is highly regarded and is support by counsel Guillaume Malaty. Of note, derivatives expert counsel Vincent Poilleux left in May 2023.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals France > Derivatives and structured finance
- Derivatives and structured finance France
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: transactional work
- Capital markets: debt capital markets
- EU, competition and distribution
- Industry focus: Energy
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Project finance
Firm Rankings
- Derivatives and structured finance
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: Stock market litigation
- Insolvency
- Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity: LBO
- Real estate
- Tax
- Administrative and public law
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Capital markets: equity capital markets
- Data privacy and data protection
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Employment
- Private equity: Fund formation