Fairway A.A.R.P.I.

Aubry d’Argenlieu joined Fairway as a Partner, in June 2012. He has extensive experience in matters concerning complex real estate investment, acquisitions and property transfers, property development and letting, implementing real estate joint ventures and real estate funds. He advises both French and Anglo-Saxon institutions as well as industrial groups.

Aubry d'Argenlieu

Aubry joined Fairway as a Partner, in June 2012. He is particularly renowned in the field of complex real estate investments, real estate acquisition/disposal, real estate development, real estate joint ventures and real estate funds formation.

Aurore du Marais

Aurore du Marais is counsel at Fairway. She specializes in the fields of real estate investment (acquisitions, disposals), development (construction and real estate promotion) and real estate management (leases, asset/property management contracts). She advises institutional investors, real estate companies and developers and has extensive expertise in handling international matters and advising foreign clients.

Cécile Peyronnet

Of counsel

Cloé Teisson

Counsel

David Franco

David Franco is specialized in financing and restructuring transactions, mainly focusing on real estate assets (acquisitions or development of offices, retail, logistics, hospitality, healthcare or residential assets). He assists both investors (investment funds, institutional investors, asset managers, family offices, developers) and lenders (banks, financial institutions, insurance companies) located in France or abroad. David Franco also advises in debt restructuring within the framework of pre-insolvency and insolvency proceedings.

Emmanuel Galifer

Emmanuel Galifer’s expertise in real estate tax matters allows him to assist French institutional investors as well as foreign investment funds, property developers and tenants. He also advises investors and listed and non-listed companies in their M&A operations. Furthermore, Emmanuel Galifer also assists managers, individuals and companies in their personal tax issues both nationally and internationally.

Franck Denis

Franck was co-opted as partner in July 2019. He is essentially involved in real estate acquisition, promotion, building and negotiation of commercial leases. Advising on all the legal aspects in relation with acquisition, cession and development (building, housing promotion) in all types of operations (offices, warehouses, malls, hotels, living facilities), Franck also regularly takes actions regarding real estate management and commercial leases.He particularly advises institutional investors, financial corporations, sponsors developers and French and international major users.

Frédéric Lefébure

Frédéric Lefébure’s main activity focuses on real estate acquisitions (portfolio, real estate companies, offices buildings, retail centers, healthcare and residential properties), real estate asset and properties management (development and commercial leases negotiations). Frédéric Lefébure advises French and overseas Institutional companies, funds, investors as well as industrial groups. His expertise in corporate law is also very appreciated as well as on real estate market and on M&A mid-cap companies field.

Juliette Bril

Juliette Bril is in charge of the firm’s environmental law department. Bilingual in English, she advises her foreign and French clients (investment funds, institutional investors, industrials, banks, insurance companies, developers, warehouse users, individuals…) in environmental law issues either in industrial regulations (classified facilities, pollution, waste, renewable energies …) or in property and warehouse regulations (green lease, asbestos, legionella…). Her experience in real estate investments has allowed Juliette Bril to develop a specific expertise in environmental law issues in relation to real estate acquisitions or share deals (environmental due diligence, contract negotiations and liability guarantees).

Matthieu Barthélemy

Matthieu joined Fairway as a partner in September 2020 in order to create the Restructuring practice. Matthieu's expertise covers debt restructuring in the context of pre-bankruptcy proceedings (ad hoc and conciliation procedures), as well as in the context of safeguard, reorganization and liquidation proceedings and, more generally, all matters in connection with the restructuring of distressed companies, both advising clients and representing them in court. Matthieu also has an extensive experience in commercial, banking, financial and civil litigation, and he is also involved in financing transactions and capital markets including as counsel to foreign investors.

Neslihan Gabriel-Denizkurdu

Neslihan has joined Fairway as a Partner in January 2018. She specializes in all real estate law aspects of real estate investment transactions (acquisition, disposal, sale and lease-back), real estate development (development and construction contracts) and real estate management (leases, asset/property management).

Nicolas Aynès

Nicolas Aynès assists and represents clients for the resolution of their disputes, either in relation with civil or commercial litigation, or through alternative dispute resolution (ADR) modes (contractual or judicially conducted mediation, arbitration) Nicolas also handles the structuring, negotiation and drafting of commercial contracts, partnerships, distribution and cooperation agreements His areas of expertise include contract and tort law, distribution law, banking and financial law (loans, derivatives, etc.), corporate law and real estate law He has authored various legal publications, especially on distribution and banking and financial law

Pierre-Emmanuel Fonteilles

With over 20 years of experience and a solid base of both French and Anglo-Saxon clients, Pierre-Emmanuel Fonteilles specializes in real estate investments, M&A and Private Equity transactions. He advises institutional investors (insurance companies, investment funds), industrial and service groups as well as wealthy families. In addition to his M&A, real estate M&A and other transactional activities, Pierre-Emmanuel Fonteilles often intervenes in the field of partnerships (between investors, investors and managers, or investors and developers), in various industrial, trade or service sectors and notably, in the real estate sector (property development), hotel industry and health care.

Sabine du Granrut

Sabine du Granrut has extensive experience in commercial and real estate litigation and is widely recognized in her field. As such when she was a Member of the Bar Council, she was in charge of ethics and relations with the magistrates. Her skills allow her to analyze the different procedural strategies and the various steps of civil and commercial proceedings. Her authority and her spontaneous goodwill allow her to consider appropriate procedures but also possible amicable settlements.

Sandrine Benaroya

Sandrine Benaroya, a specialist in M&A and LBO - Private Equity transactions, has developed a recognized expertise over the past twenty years and assists a clientele of investment funds and medium and large companies, in the media, entertainment, distribution and industrial sectors. Sandrine Benaroya advises on complex transactions, including carve-outs.

Sébastien Sehili-Franceschini

Counsel

Neslihan Gabriel - Denizkurdu

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