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Addleshaw Goddard

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Addleshaw Goddard has strong derivative expertise through practice head Julien Bacus, who has strong credentials in this field and advises major French and international banks. The practice is able to advise clients on derivative transactions linked to various matters including EMIR, clearing houses, repo, and collateral management documentation. The team also includes Charles Tissier.

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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘The team led by Julien Bacus is one of the few firms in Paris with a practice dedicated to derivatives transactions. They are excellent, business driven, very pragmatic to find solutions and help to close complex transactions.’

  • ‘Julien Bacus is a real star, more than 20 years working on derivatives, being able to advise on every sort of derivative transactions and their regulatory environment.’

Key clients

  • European Federation of Energy Traders (EFET)
  • Engie Global Markets
  • MUFG Bank
  • UBS Bank AG
  • Credit Suisse
  • Portakabin/Shepherd Building Group Limited
  • Faurecia
  • Transport Stockage Energie
  • HSBC
  • Nomura
  • Barclays
  • Groupe Duval SAS
  • Bank of America NA

Work highlights

  • Advising the EFET (European Federation of Energy Traders) on the enforceability of contractual standards governing derivative transactions in electricity and gas
  • Advising MUFG Bank on the negotiation of FBF ISDA and collateral documentation.
  • Advising UBS Bank AG on the negotiation of the EMIR initial margin with French counterparties and on the negotiation of their initial (IM) and variable (VM) margins.

Lawyers

Leading individuals

Julien  Bacus

Julien Bacus

Addleshaw Goddard

Julien Bacus is a partner in the Finance group of Addleshaw Goddard’s Paris office. Julien Bacus is a recognized lawyer in the field of finance, capital markets and structured finance. Julien advises in respect of a wide range of financing activities in relation to a number of asset classes.  He focuses, in particular, on derivative transactions covering different types of underlying assets. Julien has more specific experience in documenting these types of contracts as well as advising on issues relating to netting, collateral, the role of clearing houses and the implementation of new regulations applying to these products. Julien's activity is also oriented towards restructuring. He advises his clients in financial difficulty on the restructuring of derivative transactions. He is also used to work with his clients on pre-litigation matters linked to derivative and structured finance transactions. In addition, he has extensive experience in the hedging of financing transactions (LBOs in particular) as well as financial regulation. Julien has developed expertise with his clients in issuing debt products and various types of structured products. In this respect, he has been working both for different types of issuers, including financial institutions, corporates and sovereign entities. Julien is also a University Professor associated at Le Mans University (Professeur des Universités associé) where he teaches financial and corporate law.

Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Julien Bacus

Other key lawyers

Charles Tissier