Gide Loyrette Nouel LLP

Colin Graham

  Colin Graham is a partner in the energy group of Gide Loyrette Nouel's London office. He has more than 20 years of experience and is particularly recognized for his expertise in development projects in the energy, infrastructure and natural resources sectors. Colin's practice covers corporate and commercial projects and M&A work, with particular specialisation in international Oil & Gas, LNG, Power and Resources. Colin has worked on major gas value chain project developments in recent years, including as project counsel for all aspects of the Shah Deniz phase II development, the Trans-Adriatic, Trans-Anatolian, Trans-Asia, Nabucco, South-East Europe and IGI-Poseidon gas pipelines including gas transportation, sales, operations codes and treaties. In the LNG value chain, he has been active in LNG liquefaction and LNG trading projects, including LNG price arbitrations. Colin also has expertise on demand creation projects linking LNG regasification with gas-fired power, such as the Cameroon LNG project and recent LNG sales into West Africa and Latin America. Colin also works in the electricity sector, particularly in the context of regulatory regimes and the development of nuclear, thermal and gas-to-power projects in emerging markets. Colin is qualified in England & Wales, Hong Kong and Ontario (non-practicing). He is fluent in French, Mandarin and Spanish.

Dimitrios Logizidis

Dimitrios Logizidis, partner in Gide's London office, specialises in banking and structured finance where he advises financial institutions, private equity funds and corporates on a wide range of asset-backed financing, securitisation, covered bonds and general corporate finance deals. In particular, Dimitrios has acted for arrangers, private equity funds and originators in major whole business and trade receivable securitisation transactions involving amounts of up to EUR 4 billion. He has also been involved in a number of multi-jurisdictional ABCP conduit deals, including in emerging countries, where securitisation was implemented for the first time. He notably advised the arrangers on the Hertz and Fraikin whole business securitisations, and Europcar / Eurazeo and ALD Automotive / Société Générale on their respective whole business transactions. He has also advised BNP Paribas on a EUR 650 million international trade receivables ABCP securitisation programme arranged in twelve different jurisdictions worldwide (including Poland, Czech Republic and Canada) for Teva, the leading generic drugs manufacturer. He recently acted for KGHM in relation to a USD 2,5 billion revolving syndicated club deal, one of the most significant transactions of its type carried out in Europe for 2014. Dimitrios is qualified both as an English solicitor and French avocat and advises on English and French law transactions.

Hannah McIrvine

Hannah McIrvine specialises in international disputes. She qualified as a solicitor in England and Wales in 2009 and joined Gide Loyrette Nouel's London office in 2012, becoming Counsel in the International Dispute Resolution team in 2017. She advises international clients in English court litigations, international arbitrations (under a variety of institutional rules, including ICC, LCIA, VIAC (Vietnam) and ad hoc) and alternative dispute resolution forums. Hannah advises clients from the commercial, manufacturing, banking, technology and communication, energy and construction sectors on a wide range of disputes and in particular has experience of disputes arising out of jurisdiction and contractual issues and fraudulent, tortious and equitable claims. Hannah also advises insurance sector clients on litigation and regulatory matters.

Karine Imbrosciano

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

Matteo Matteucci

Matteo Matteucci is Counsel in the Energy group of Gide Loyrette Nouel's London office. His practice is focused on cross-border M&A transactions (acquisitions, disposals and joint ventures), project developments and commercial transactions in the energy and natural resources sectors. He has advised financial investors, corporate clients and governments on domestic and cross-border transactions across Europe, Africa and Asia. In 2014 Matteo was seconded for seven months to the London office of Statkraft, where he advised on the development of various UK wind farm projects and on various commercial matters. Before qualifying as a solicitor in 2009, Matteo worked for three years in an Italian oil and gas services company.

Rupert Reece

Rupert is an English Barrister and an Avocat à la Cour. He is head of the Firm's dispute resolution team in London. He specialises in international arbitration relating to construction, joint ventures, aerospace and international commerce. Having started his career as a Barrister in London in 1992, Rupert joined Gide Loyrette Nouel in Paris in 1995 and became a partner in 2001. He relocated to the Gide office in London in 2012. Rupert acts as counsel in arbitration proceedings in English and/or French, most frequently under the ICC or LCIA rules. He has also appeared before tribunals under a variety of institutional rules in Asia, the Middle East and Central Europe. He is "an excellent advocate who masters technical details of complex projects". Rupert is regularly appointed as an arbitrator. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.

Saadia Bhatty

Admitted to the New York Bar in 2010 and Paris Bar in 2018, Saadia Bhatty is a partner within Gide's Dispute Resolution practice group in London. She has more than 13 years' experience (including in Paris and New York) as counsel to private and state entities in cross-border disputes, in particular in international arbitration proceedings (commercial and investment), governed by the rules of various institutions (including ICC, ICSID, LCIA, PCA, SCC, HKIAC, VIAC, CAS and OHADA rules), as well as in ad hoc arbitrations (UNCITRAL), subject to the laws of both civil and common law jurisdictions. Fields of expertise include the energy, oil and gas, and construction sectors, particularly in Africa, the Middle East and Asia. Saadia also advises governments in the drafting/reform of their investment treaties and national legislation. She is a graduate from Harvard Law School, the Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne University in Paris, and the Ecole Normale Supérieure Saadia regularly writes articles, lectures in top universities, trains private practitioners and government officials, and speaks at conferences in international arbitration across the world.

Samir Bensaker

Based in Gide's London office, Samir advises international financial institutions, investment funds and corporations on their structured finance and securitisation transactions. His expertise covers the structuring of domestic and international transactions across many different asset classes (including SME loans, trade receivables, lease receivables, syndicated loans, whole business securitisations and project bonds), sectors (such as financial institutions, oil & gas, agribusiness, manufacturing, real estate) and jurisdictions, including in emerging markets. Samir has been involved in many innovative and high-profile structured finance transactions in Europe over recent years, such as one of the largest trade receivables securitisation programmes in Europe, the first rated car fleet securitisation in Belgium and the setting up of a major French project bonds transaction. Samir also regularly acts for clients on various other finance matters, such as loans portfolio sales, the setting up of debt funds, complex debt financings, debt trading and risk transfer transactions.