De Gaulle Fleurance & Associés

Structure Division: The activities of the Structure Division cover litigation and transactional work in connection with economic actor’s assets, governance and financing.

Firm partner, Sylvie Perrin is an international business lawyer specializing in Banking and Finance. She is notably active in the energy and transportation sectors. She is reputed in the setting up of complex, innovative asset and project finance deals where integrated team skills are critical to the success of projects. Over her long and focused experience in finance, she has acted for all sides in both domestic and cross-border transactions. Sylvie is an expert in structuring off-balance sheet transactions in relation to leasing of assets and financing various investments. With a solid reputation in asset and project finance transactions acting for major Banks and Financial institutions, Sylvie Perrin is counsel to many Financial Advisers and internationally based companies in organising the most efficient debt structuring for various types of projects. ln the energy sector, Sylvie pursues a large-scale project finance activity notably in the field of renewable energies. She covers all market positions across a wide range of operating sectors: co-designs structuring with arrangers, implements secured schemes for lenders and provides proactive assistance to sponsors and developers. ln the context of the classic banking sector, she advises arrangers and lenders for club deal financings of their wind, solar, biomass and biogas energy projects. She also takes part in the setting up of alternative financing schemes enabling more particularly the actors in the energy market to finance their development and compensate for the decrease of bank credit availability.

French, English.

Sylvie Perrin was admitted to the Paris Bar in 1997.

Master of Laws (LL.M.) in English and French Law (Warwick University, 1990); Certification in English Law (Warwick University, 1989); Master of Laws (LL.B. Honours) in Private Law (Bordeaux University, 1988).