About

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Our Capital Markets and Banking group is known for being solution-driven and commercially aware. Our involvement in a wide range of the most complex and high-profile transactions seen in the market over the years has put our team at the cutting edge of financing solutions, ensuring we are familiar with recent developments.


It has also enabled us to offer clients constructive and practical advice, balancing the competing requirements of all involved using our knowledge of market expectations.


We advise lenders, borrowers and other financial players across the full spectrum of banking products, including acquisitions and takeover financings, bilateral and syndicated plain-vanilla credit facilities, real estate finance and bank/bond financing structures (including green and social bonds) as well as restructuring and insolvency.


Within these areas, our strength lies in our ability to handle the increasingly complex needs of the market in the current financial environment and to integrate our high yield and restructuring expertise. 


In the area of the financial regulation, we advise the whole range of regulated services with particular emphasis on regulatory matters for professionals of the financial and insurance sectors, including licensing matters, acquisition and/or reorganisations, resolution, as well as advice on market rules and regulations (AML, market abuse, EMIR, SFTR, BRRD, MiFID II, PSD II, MCD, Solvency II, IDD, CSDR) and private banking products. 

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Banking & Finance - Luxembourg

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What the Team is Known For

Linklaters is esteemed for its expertise in complex and high-profile transactions, acting for lenders and borrowers on a broad spectrum of mandates, including asset finance, real estate finance, acquisition finance and restructuring. Its lawyers offer a broad range of capital markets advice, including bond offerings and MTN programmes, as well as securitisation transactions. The Luxembourg office utilises its global network to win instructions from international banks.

Work Highlights

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  • Linklaters recently advised CBRE Investment Management's European Logistics Partner fund on its fund level financing under a EUR275 million senior unsecured sustainability-linked term loan facility.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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Nicki Kayser
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Nicki Kayser
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Band 1
Nicki Kayser has a standout capital markets practice, advising on MTN programmes and green bond issuances, as well as securitisation transactions.

Nicki Kayser is very pleasant to deal with and he is very structured in his work.

Nicki Kayser is very pleasant to work with, with a good mix of attention to detail and commercial perspective.

Patrick Geortay
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Patrick Geortay
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Band 1

Patrick Geortay has a market-leading banking and finance practice advising clients in different sectors on a variety of financings, including structured and asset finance. Additionally, he is active on debt capital markets matters and his expertise also spans the regulatory aspects of transactions..

Patrick Geortay is a very solid lawyer with strong technical skills. He is pragmatic, understands your concerns and helps to find the best option for you.

Not always lawyers immediately understand your requirements but Patrick Geortay always does and then knows where to go from there.

Patrick Geortay's main strength is his extensive knowledge. He is capable of reacting to any request incredibly fast and with great ease.

Patrick Geortay is a very smart lawyer who is great on complex matters. You can tell he knows what he is talking about and also understands our needs. He is one of the best lawyers in Luxembourg.

Patrick Geortay is a smart, precise and conscientious lawyer.

Melinda Perera
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Melinda Perera
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Band 2

Melinda Perera has a wide-ranging practice assisting clients with complex cross-border transactions, including refinancings, real estate financings and asset financing mandates. In addition, she advises on debt capital market transactions, such as the issuance of green bonds and EMTN programmes.

Melinda Perera is very accessible, commercially aware and able to cover a wide range of topics.

Melinda Perera is reactive and polite. She has in-depth knowledge with the necessary foresight.

The quality of her work is incredible, her opinions are always clear and pragmatic. She is also very flexible and responsive. Really, it is a pleasure working with her.

Melinda Perera shows a great understanding of her clients' needs and constraints.

Eliane Dejardin Botelho
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Eliane Dejardin Botelho
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Band 4

Eliane Dejardin Botelho is well placed to advise international banking groups on acquisition finance and loan structuring matters, with further expertise in banking regulatory issues.

Eliane Dejardin Botelho is an exceptional lawyer. Despite advising on very technical legal topics, she is solution driven and always delivers her advice in a practical way.

Eliane Dejardin Botelho is a very pragmatic, knowledgeable and frank lawyer.

She was available, responsive and extremely pedagogical. We were very pleased to be able to work with her. Her legal skills are undeniable and she has a level of expertise and detail that few have.

In terms of work ethic, she definitely has a can-do mindset and goes above and beyond to meet and anticipate the client's needs.

Eliane Dejardin Botelho was able to fully integrate our legal and operational constraints, was a source of proposals throughout the case and went far beyond what advisers usually provide.

Ranked Lawyers at
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Luxembourg

Banking & Finance

Patrick Geortay
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Patrick Geortay
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Band 1
Melinda Perera
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Melinda Perera
Head of Banking & Finance
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Band 2
Eliane Dejardin Botelho
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Eliane Dejardin Botelho
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Band 4
Capital Markets

Nicki Kayser
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Nicki Kayser
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Band 1
Melinda Perera
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Melinda Perera
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Band 2
Patrick Geortay
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Patrick Geortay
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Band 3

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