Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP

Banking and Finance

Karine Imbrosciano heads the Derivatives & Structured Products group of Gide in London. Qualified as both a French Avocat à la Cour and English solicitor, she has in-depth knowledge of French and English law legal structuring and advisory support on a broad range of derivatives, structured repos, securities lending transactions and structured products across various asset classes (Fixed Income, Equity, Credit, Funds). Specialised in complex OTC derivatives products and structured products, Karine is experienced notably in equity derivatives and in hedging of structured finance transactions (real estate financing, project finance, covered bonds, securitisation), with a focus on the negotiation of swaps complying with rating agency criteria. Karine also has significant experience in credit derivatives (CDO, CPPI, CPDO, CFXO). Leveraging her dual qualification and broad experience of the European and UK markets, Karine has assisted many clients with the preparation and implementation of their Brexit plans for their derivatives and structured products businesses and is still working alongside those clients in a post-Brexit context.

Karine regularly advises her clients on the implementation of the new banking and financial regulatory reforms, and in particular with respect to collateralisation, clearing and reporting, as well as IBOR transition. Moreover, Karine has developed an expertise in restructuring and prelitigation/litigation procedures involving derivatives and temporary acquisitions and sales of securities, notably in the context of the Lehman Brothers insolvency.

Having graduated from HEC Business School, Karine joined Gide in Paris in 2005 and the London office two years later. Sharing her time between London and Paris, she works closely with Gide's finance teams in both offices, as well as Gide's international offices in Eastern Europe and Africa. She has benefited from a secondment to the Corporate Solutions Group of a French bank in Paris and from a one-year secondment to a leading US investment bank in London in its structured products and derivatives teams.

Recommended by Legal 500 since 2015, Karine is ranked for Derivatives and Structured Products by the Legal 500 UK.

Partner of Gide Loyrette Nouel, in London, since 2013

Avocat à la Cour - Admission to the Paris Bar (2005) Master Degree in Business Law - Panthéon Sorbonne University (2003) HEC Paris Business School, Major in Finance (1999-2003)