Clifford Chance

Alex Bafi

Alex advises corporates, private equity investors and investment banks on complex and innovative securities offerings, including IPOs, rights offerings, and high yield and investment grade debt offerings. Alex has advised on more than €40 billion of securities offerings since 2017. He is ranked as a leading Capital Markets lawyer by Chambers and IFLR, and is recognized as one of Legal 500’s Hall of Fame Capital Market lawyers. Alex is a member of the Bar of the State of New York.

Cédric Burford

Cedric Burford has a particular expertise in debt and equity-linked bond issues, debt issuance programmes, commercial paper, structured debt issues (index-linked, credit-linked) and tax-driven finance structures. Cedric also focuses on French and other European markets, as well as US transactions, acting for major investment banks and issuers.

Charles-Henri Boeringer

Charles-Henri Boeringer specialises in white collar crime matters. Over the last few years, he has assisted clients before criminal authorities and courts at all stages of proceedings, from investigation to final hearing, in very high profile matters involving frauds, corruption or market offences. From 2010 to 2012, he was seconded to our Hong Kong office where he was working with our Asia Anti-corruption practice. Charles-Henri has also extensive experience in commercial litigation. Charles-Henri is a member of our global Corruption Risk team. He is the Africa Practice Leader for Risks, Compliance, Investigations.

Daniel Zerbib

Daniel Zerbib began his career as a securitisation lawyer (CMBS, trade receivables) and now specialises in banking and finance, with a particular emphasis on infrastructure finance (both greenfield and brownfield), leveraged finance and debt restructuring.

David Préat

David Préat advises public and private entities as well as financial institutions on public law matters including deregulation, energy, privatisation, state aids, public domain and public services. David specialises in public contracts (concessions, public private partnerships (PPP), public procurement) in relation to major infrastructure projects including arenas, hospitals, prisons, railways, motorways and airports.

Delphine Siino Courtin

Delphine Siino Courtin specialises in projects and project finance, particularly in Africa and Europe. Delphine has advised on projects in the power, oil & gas and mining sectors as well as on French private finance initiatives (PFI) and on acquisitions in the energy sector. Delphine is the Africa Practice Leader for Energy and Infra Transition.

François Bonteil

François Bonteil specialises in all areas of real estate work: Real Estate M&A (acquisitions and disposals of property-owning companies and portfolios of real estate assets), Real Estate Private Equity (joint ventures / shareholders' agreements), Real Estate services (including commercial leasing, development and asset management) and Real Estate Finance (acquisition / mortgage financings , corporate and funds financings).

Jonathan Lewis

Jonathan Lewis specialises in securitisation, structured finance, banking, derivatives and real estate finance. Since 2010, Jonathan has had a strategic role in advising EFSF / ESM in relation to the resolution of the euro area sovereign debt crisis.

Mathieu Remy

Managing Partner, Avocat à la Cour

Nikolaï Eatwell

Nikolaï Eatwell specialises in Project, Project Finance and Export Credit transactions, particularly in Africa, Russia, the former CIS and Turkey. The matters Nikolaï has advised on include projects in the mining, metals, oil & gas, power and telecommunications sectors and financings with a wide range of commercial banks, ECAs and multilaterals. He also works on commodities financing.

Reinhard Dammann

Reinhard Damman advises on insolvency law, with a particular emphasis on international and cross border insolvency and restructuring. He also specialises in French trust law 'fiducie'.Reinhard has acted for a broad spectrum of clients in fields including financial institutions, private equity funds, industrial corporations and insolvency trustees in France and abroad. With acknowledged experience in these fields, Reinhard is the author of numerous articles published in both specialist and general publications and is a regular speaker at seminars and conferences, in particular on European regulation of insolvency proceedings and French trust law.

Thierry Arachtingi

Thierry Arachtingi specialises in banking and finance, with a particular emphasis on acquisition finance, real estate finance and debt restructuring. In leveraged finance and debt restructuring areas he advises on all types of senior and subordinated financings for domestic and cross-border acquisitions, including LBO, public-to-private transactions and private investments in public equity.

Thomas Baudesson

Thomas Baudesson specialises in commercial litigation and more particularly commercial contracts, corporate, product liability, labour law, domestic arbitration, white collar crimes, injunctions and conservatory measures. Thomas regularly advises on matters related to industrials, particularly aerospace & defence and automotive.

Xavier Comaills

Xavier Comaills specialises in the formation and fundraising of private equity investment funds and in particular concerning French and European funds' managers. He has extensive experience in primary fundraising and is also leader on secondary transactions including sale of portfolio interests but also GP-led secondary transactions. Xavier also advises institutional limited partners with respect to their investments in private equity and real estate funds. Xavier is also an expert on carried interest structuring.