About

Provided by Gide Loyrette Nouel

With offices in Paris, New York and London, our dedicated practice advises on complex and strategic transactions in Europe, the United States and emerging markets in French, American and English law.​

Our arrangers, lead managers, issuers and investors, particularly in Europe and the United States, benefit from our first-rate experience across the full range of their transactions in Equity Capital Markets, Debt Capital Markets, High Yield, Derivatives and Structured Products.​

Our practice is renowned for its pragmatic business approach and its technical expertise in high value-added and innovative transactions.​

Depending on the specific features of each deal, our practice can also draw on the firm's complementary legal expertise, offering comprehensive, global and integrated solutions.

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Capital Markets: Derivatives - France

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What the Team is Known For

Gide Loyrette Nouel boasts a strong debt and equity team with further skills across the wider capital markets field. The law firm is well reputed for its presence on complex deals, offering particular knowledge and experience of European private placements and high-yield bond issuances. The team also has notable expertise advising on IPOs and capital increases, as well as derivatives matters. The practice maintains a varied client roster of leading banks and French corporates, and is particularly active in the biotech sector.

Work Highlights

  • Gide Loyrette Nouel advised Roquette Frères on its inaugural senior and subordinated notes issues.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Hubert Merveilleux du Vignaux
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Hubert Merveilleux du Vignaux
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Hubert Merveilleux du Vignaux remains a leading authority on DCM matters, with clear expertise in large-scale bond and note issuance mandates. He acts for domestic corporates, insurance companies and financial institutions.

Hubert Merveilleux du Vignaux is a partner with whom it is very pleasant to exchange, and this in complete transparency. We fully trust him.

Hubert Merveilleux du Vignaux provides excellent advice, is always attentive to the problems and responsive.

Arnaud Duhamel
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Arnaud Duhamel
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Band 2

Arnaud Duhamel is a well-reputed practitioner who advises on IPOs, private placements and capital increases. He is active across the biotech and transportation sectors.

Arnaud Duhamel offers a strong level of expertise, ability to suggest value-added structuring features and proactivity.

He has an excellent read on complex transactions, always finding solutions to unlock situations thanks to an innovative approach.

He provides excellent, sophisticated capital markets advice.

I appreciate his responsiveness to our needs, his pragmatism, his helping the transaction over the finishing line and his deep expertise in these types of matters.

We work a lot with Arnaud Duhamel. He is always handling complex equity matters and their commercial aspects. He is good at arranging deals, he is a deal-maker.

Laurent Vincent
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Laurent Vincent
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Laurent Vincent assists domestic financial institutions and corporates with bond issuances and EMTN programme updates. He offers additional expertise in derivatives, including advice on hedging transactions.

Laurent Vincent has a strong track record and in-depth knowledge of French capital markets; he combines this with a pragmatic approach when it comes to resolving complex issues.

Laurent Vincent is a reliable and trusted partner with whom it is a real pleasure to work.

Laurent Vincent provided us with good advice. With his team, he was available and responsive.

He keeps up-to-date with developments in the market. He also has strong knowledge of best practices and what is expected from market authorities.

Melinda Stege Arsouze
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Melinda Stege Arsouze
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Band 3

Melinda Arsouze is experienced in advising on international equity capital markets transactions, including IPOs and capital increases. She is dual-qualified in France and the USA.

Melinda Stege Arsouze's ability to adapt across various topics, combined with a proactive and well-structured approach, contributed significantly to the smooth execution of the work.

She is incredibly responsive, she is always pragmatic and solution-oriented.

Dimitrios Logizidis
Dimitrios Logizidis
Expertise Based Abroad

London-based Dimitrios Logizidis shows particular expertise in advising French and multinational financial institutions on trade receivables securitisation programmes. He is qualified in France, Greece and the UK.

Ranked Lawyers at
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France

Capital Markets

Dimitrios Logizidis
Dimitrios Logizidis
France, expertise based abroad in UK
Melinda Stege Arsouze
F
Melinda Stege Arsouze
F
Foreign expert for USA
Capital Markets: Debt

Hubert Merveilleux du Vignaux
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Hubert Merveilleux du Vignaux
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Band 1
Laurent Vincent
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Laurent Vincent
3
Band 3
Capital Markets: Derivatives

Laurent Vincent
3
Laurent Vincent
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Band 3
Capital Markets: Equity

Arnaud Duhamel
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Arnaud Duhamel
2
Band 2
Melinda Stege Arsouze
3
Melinda Stege Arsouze
3
Band 3

Members

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Bastien Raisse

Guilhem Richard

Laurent Vincent

Melinda Arsouze