Global France Capital Markets: Derivatives

Jones Day is a leading team in Paris for derivatives products, with a strong focus on strategic equity and swaps. The law firm also acts on IPOs and capital increases, including highlight mandates for companies operating in the biotech or medical devices fields. The team is adept at handling transactional as well as regulatory matters, and offers growing expertise in structured finance mandates. The practice makes use of its international presence to assist clients with cross-border transactions.

The French team of the international powerhouse covers the full spectrum of capital markets matters. The practice remains a market leader in debt and structured finance, often dealing with complex hybrid bond issuances and securitisation transactions, and is additionally active in ECM and derivatives matters. The team acts for an impressive range of clients including banks, insurers and corporates and benefits from US and UK law capabilities based locally in Paris. Clifford Chance's lawyers can access the firm's wider European resources to offer further support to clients.

Gide Loyrette Nouel boasts a strong DCM team with further skills across the wider capital markets field, with a move up in the ECM rankings this year. 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, capital increases and securitisation transactions, as well as derivatives matters. The practice maintains a varied client roster of leading banks and French corporates.