Helene Lefebvre Banking Lawyer of the Year France
About Helene Lefebvre
agreements and advises both French and international arrangers, lenders, mezzanine lenders and borrowers.
Hélène has particular expertise in asset finance, including real estate and moveable assets. She also regularly advises major French and international
financial
institutions, borrowers and private equity funds on the setting-up, restructuring or renegotiation of syndicated loans, bilateral facilities,
liquidity lines and acquisition
facilities. This includes primary or secondary LBOs, MBOs or any other kind of leveraged financing or refinancing.
Hélène Lefebvre co-heads the Banking & Finance practice at Field Fisher Waterhouse Paris, with particular focus on asset finance (real estate and other assets), acquisition finance and corporate finance.
Hélène has a wide range of experience in structuring, negotiating, drafting and restructuring a variety of
Firm Profile
Field Fisher Waterhouse is a European law firm providing commercial solutions across a range of industry sectors. It has a particular focus on companies that are highly regulated and those with intellectual property and technology-driven business models.
The firm has over 150 partners, 240 other lawyers and nearly 300 support staff across offices in Brussels, Hamburg, Paris, London, Manchester, Munich Palo Alto and Shanghai.
International clients choose to work with the firm because it provides exceptional lawyers with industry expertise and
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strong commercial knowledge of clients’ businesses, enabling the firm to work with them to maximise their market opportunities. Field Fisher Waterhouse is acknowledged as a leading expert in sectors such as technology and communications, hotels and leisure, and media, as well as for public sector work.
Clients companies, multinationals,
include listed and unlisted financial
institutions, professional partnerships, trade associations and government departments. They value the firm’s flexible approach to teamwork and the fact that it shapes its structures and way of working to meet their specific needs.
Contact
Hélène Lefebvre Partner Field Fisher Waterhouse France LLP 21, boulevard de la Madeleine 75001 Paris France
Tel: + 33 (0) 1 42 96 08 89 Fax: + 33 (0) 1 42 96 07 98 Email:
helene.lefebvre@ffw.com Website:
www.ffw.com
Lawyer Monthly Legal Awards 2013
She also has significant experience in the acquisition of performing or non performing loan receivables for investment funds or financial institutions and in Islamic finance.
Prior to joining FFW in 2012, Hélène belonged to the structured finance team at Gide Loyrette Nouel where she worked since 1996.
finance
Hélène speaks fluent English and French (she has both nationalities).
Notable Legal Work
➢ In February 2013, Hélène Lefebvre advised the arrangers on the financing of the construction of a forty-nine story office building located in Lyon, owned by a subsidiary of Sogelym Dixence;
➢ In March 2013, Hélène Lefebvre advised the investor and borrowers on the senior and mezzanine financing of the acquisition by a subsidiary of Alpha Private Equity Fund 6 of the ECS group, an air cargo general sales agent.
Areas of Expertise • Asset finance
• Property finance • Corporate finance • Acquisition finance • Islamic finance
• Acquisition / sale of distressed or non distressed loan receivables
• Restructuring
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