Overview
Guillaume is a Counsel in the firm’s Paris office Structured Finance practice. He advises corporates, banks, private credit funds, asset managers and fintech companies on a broad range of structured finance transactions including trade receivable securitisations, consumer and SME loan securitisations, operating assets securitisations, synthetic securitisations, portfolio sales and insurance linked securities.
Experience
Recent transactions of significance with substantial involvement include:
- Advised Crédit Agricole CIB as arranger on the setting up of a pan-European off-balance sheet revolving securitisation transaction for Inetum.
- Advised Insight Investment on the implementation of an innovative debt financing structured built around a securitisation fund granting loans to support the activity of Faktus, a French fintech providing financing solutions to SMEs in the construction sector.
- Advised Crédit Agricole CIB as arranger on the establishment and renewal of pan-European car fleet securitisations for Europcar and Avis.
- Advised a major European bank on the sale of a c.€7bn receivables portfolio to institutional investors.
- Advised Arundo Re on the setting up of their sidecar programme and annual ILS issuances.
- Advised Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank and Crédit Agricole S.A. on the c.€1.6bn RMBS issuance of the Caisses Régionales de Crédit Agricole.
- Advised Arrago, the French leader in equity release mortgage origination, on the setting up of their refinancing platform and their first €200m forward flow transaction with Cerberus.
- Advised Crédit Agricole CIB as arranger on the first solar power plant portfolio securitisation established for Idex.
- Advised several institutional investors on the acquisition and related leveraged financing of a portfolio of SME and individual non-performing mortgage loans (NPLs) sold by a major French bank.
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