The 'very knowledgeable and responsive' team at Loyens & Loeff delivers 'high-quality work' to creditors and debtors across a wide spectrum of transactional matters, from relatively commoditised corporate lending matters, through to highly bespoke distressed and restructuring scenarios. Here clients also benefit from the firm's strong underlying regulatory offering, which is also utilised for discrete advisory matters and financial services M&A. The 'very effective and results-driven' Anne-Marie Nicolas is central to much of the transactional work and as well as handling a considerable volume of private equity-led acquisition finance mandates, is also noted for her restructuring/distressed financing expertise. Vassiliyan Zanev, who co-heads the overarching team alongside Nicolas, is best-known for his market-leading fund finance offering, work which he combines with a thriving securitisation practice. Of the more junior partners, Noemi Gemesi provides 'clear and effective' advice to issuers and underwriters on DCM and ECM work (including as it relates to green notes), and the 'commercially minded' Adrien Pierre has 'deep technical knowledge of banking regulation', and can flex this across the investment fund and securities industries.  

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Testimonials

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  • 'The very knowledgeable and responsive team provides high-quality work.'
  • 'The outstanding Anne-Marie Nicolas has a broad knowledge of her field.'
  • 'Anne-Marie Nicolas is very effective and results driven.'
  • 'Vassiliyian Zanev is good at providing innovative structuring advice. He is well known in the market and good at getting deals done.'
  • 'Noémi Gémesi is always calm, clear and effective in any situation.'
  • 'Audrey Jarreton is an exceptional individual and a pleasure to work with. She was truly involved in helping us reach our goals.'
  • 'The commercially-minded Adrien Pierre is a real rising star in terms of financial regulatory in Luxembourg; he has a deep technical knowledge of banking regulation.'

Key clients

  • Brookfield Corporation
  • Blackstone
  • Golden Tree Capital
  • JP Morgan
  • EQT Fund Management
  • European Commission
  • Mizuho Bank, Ltd.
  • Mongolian Mining Corporation
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Pharmakon Advisors, LP
  • Raizen Fuels Finance
  • StoneCo.
  • Tokeny (Fintech)

Work highlights

  • Advised the finance parties on the Luxembourg aspects of the  financing for the acquisition of ROSEN Group by Partners Group.
  • Advised StoneCo. in relation to its $467.5m revolving securitisation facility from the United States International Development Finance Corporation.
  • Advised the European Commission in the context of a ground breaking new debt issuance programme.

Lawyers

Leading partners
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Practice head

The lawyer(s) leading their teams.

Anne-Marie Nicolas, Vassiliyan Zanev

Other key lawyers

Noémi Gémesi, Audrey Jarreton, Adrien Pierre, Maude Royer, Natalja Taillefer, Marko Huskic, Maria Kulmukhametova, Sarah Ambulante, Alexandre Sensi, Vanesa Gómez Pena