Acting on its own and regularly working alongside practitioners across the firm’s extensive international network, Baker McKenzie provides ‘very reliable’ and ’solutions oriented’ advice to lenders and borrowers on financing solutions to facilitate M&A transactions, for working capital and restructuring solutions. The real estate sector informs much of the workflow, with Jean-François Trapp regularly engaged in domestic and pan-European financing mandates to facilitate large-scale commercial and retail projects. Laurent Fessmann co-heads the team alongside Trapp and regularly provides bridge and fund finance solutions to asset managers.
Testimonials
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- 'The team provides very reliable advice.'
'Explanations and clarifications are clear and understandable. The team provides solutions-oriented advice.'
Key clients
- Invel Real Estate group/Goldman Sachs Asset Management
- Bausch Health
Work highlights
- Assisted Invel Real Estate group with a financing restructuring completed in the context of a secondary sale of Italian and Luxembourg real estate fund units by Castlelake to Goldman Sachs through the implementation of a new joint-venture and co-investment agreement between Invel Group and Goldman Sachs.
- Assisted Bausch Health with several amendments to its credit facilities agreement.