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Sabine Bironneau

Partner Corporate & Finance

Languages

English, French

Bironneau Sabine

Sabine Bironneau
Bironneau Sabine
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Co-head of Banking and Finance department, Sabine has focused on leveraged and acquisition finance, as well as corporate finance. She is also involved in real estate financing transactions on both the lender and the borrower side. Recognized for her "excellent" and "efficient" service, her advice is mainly sought by lenders both on domestic and complex cross-border financial transactions. Always willing to answer her clients' needs in an ever changing financing market, Sabine has more recently developed a strong expertise on direct lending with the rise of private debt funds, unitranche financing and other disintermediated financing. 

Representative experience

Advising the lenders in connection with the EUR 270,327,000 facilities made available to Scorpius in order to finance the acquisition of IPSEN Consumer Healthcare and of assets in 12 countries.

Advising the lenders in the context of the financing of the acquisition by a Newco (in which MML and Metric have invested through equity and quasi equity) of Groupe GPS.

Advising the lenders (including French and international banks) in the setting up of a EUR 700,000,000 revolving credit facility for the benefit of Rexel. 

Advising the lenders in the refinancing of Lectra's existing financial indebtedness and financing the acquisition of the majority of capital and voting rights of Fashion GPS Inc. d/b/a Launchmetrics.

Advising the lenders in connection with the EUR 235 million facilities made available to FINU 14 (holding company of the Gorgé group) in order to finance, inter alia, the acquisition of IXBLUE.

Advising the lenders in connection with a EUR 180 million facilities made available to Solo Invest to finance the acquisition of Mid Ocean Grp B.V and general corporate purpose of the Solo Invest Grp.

Advising the lenders in relation to a EUR 500,000,000 sustainability linked term loan and revolving loan facilities for Neoen. 

Credentials

Education
  • LL.M. in Commercial Law and Maritime, University of Wales, Cardiff, 1994
  • D.E.A. in Private Law, University of Poitiers, 1993

Recognition

Banking & Finance (France)

Chambers Global

2019-2024
Recommended as a Global Leader in Banking - Finance

Who's Who Legal

2020
Recommended as a National Leader for France in Banking

Who's Who Legal

2020
Sabine Bironneau-Loy: Recognised Practicioner in Banking & Finance

Chambers Europe

2018
The managing partner of a well-known financial services group in France, working with the banking department says the service received was “excellent” and “efficient,” and singles out key partner Sabine Bironneau for individual acclaim

IFLR 1000

2016
The practice can draw on a strong banking department that includes Sabine Bironneau-Loy

Legal EMEA

2014
Sabine Bironneau is ranked as Rising Star

IFLR 1000

2014
‘efficient and proactive’, Band 3

Legal EMEA

2015
She is professional for finance, always under control and the documentation very clear, we used them once on an export finance

IFLR 1000

2013
Banking and Finance: Transactional Work, France, Recommended

Legal 500 EMEA

2019-2020