Your Goal: Grant/get financing or enforce your rights against creditors/debtors

Whether you are a bank seeking to grant or restructure a credit facility, build a security package or enforce your rights thereunder against your borrowers or any surety, or whether you are an undertaking seeking to get (re)financing from a bank or to defend your rights and assets against your creditors, our Banking & Finance department can help you with the full range of services required to successfully close a favourable arrangement.

Same goes for any project involving private equity financing, that can be swiftly structured and implemented by attorneys specialising in the relevant areas of practice, including Mergers & Acquisitions (where for instance a forward funding arrangement is contemplated), Corporate Law (where financing involves a joint venture arrangement), Commercial & Contract Law (as required to structure and carve out the relevant contractual framework).

Our attorneys will thus assist you in all stages of the project, including legal and tax due diligence on the targeted company/assets, structuring the security package from a legal and tax perspective, drafting, negotiating and closing finance and securitization documents, monitor post closing performance and manage potential distress arising throughout the life of the facility before such escalates in a dispute. Further, if a dispute is imminent, our Litigation, Arbitration and ADR team will swiftly intervene to prepare the pre-litigation strategy, represent you in court and out-of-court proceedings and help with the forced execution stage. In addition, our Insolvency (Restructuring & Bankruptcy) attorneys will assist you all along any potential insolvency proceedings initiated with respect to your debtors or your company, as the case may be, in connection with any such financing. Further, where bank facilities or private equity financing are not available, insufficient or simply inconvenient, our attorneys specialising in Competition have the experience of working with both undertakings and public authorities in terms of identifying potentially available State aid measures and have same awarded or applied for, as the case may be, in accordance with the European Union rules in the field.

In addition, our extensive expertise in major projects co-financed by international institutions, in respect of which we have assisted investors, relevant public authorities and financing institutions, guarantees a swift implementation and proper assistance at all levels, including, where needed, court representation in case of alleged breaches and financial corrections.

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