Europe - France

Stephenson Harwood

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Headed by French and UK qualified Jeremy Grant, Stephenson Harwood’s Paris practice handles a cross-border and international work, regularly working alongside colleagues from the firm’s international offices. The team assists issuers and several financial institutions with mid-cap and complex transactions, spanning sustainability-linked bonds, eurobonds, hybrid offerings, secured notes and liability management work.

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  • 'Quality work. The firm seeks to adapt standards to the needs of their clients, even if it means having to explain and negotiate these changes for the rest of the transaction.’

  • ‘Jeremy Grant demonstrates ingenuity, pragmatism and rigor.’

  • ‘Jeremy Grant and his team are incredibly commercial. He provides good advice, works efficiently and is overall a pleasure to work with. His commercial attitude is excellent. He is able to boil down difficult issues.’

  • ‘Very good technique, reasonable billing and adapted to mid-sized companies, high availability.’

  • ‘Jeremy Grant: available, very technical '.

  • ‘Team with excellent market knowledge. efficient and pleasant collaboration.’

  • ‘Jeremy Grant is particularly available and proactive; the issues are clearly identified. Responses are also always given within deadlines. Clement Leung also has precise knowledge of his field of derivatives activities.’

Key clients

  • Touax SCA
  • SCOR SE
  • Grit Real Estate Income Group Limited
  • Halyk Bank
  • Louis Dreyfus Commodities
  • Fleetscape Capital Limited
  • Société du Grand Paris

Work highlights

  • Advising GRIT Real Estate Income Group Ltd. (GRIT) on a US$306 million debt refinancing and syndication, with Standard Bank as the sole mandated lead arranger.
  • Advising SCOR SE on its new contingent capital programme.
  • Advising Louis Dreyfus Commodities on its five-year JPY 10 billion of 0.89% per cent sustainability-linked bonds.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Jeremy Grant