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.

2010: Admitted to the Paris Bar  (2010) 2007 - 2008: Master 2 Droit des Affaires (Business law), Université Panthéon Assas (Paris II) (2008)