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Banking & Finance

CHEVALIER & SCIALES represents investors, lenders and borrowers for the negotiation of cross-border financing transactions, for the enforcement of their rights under financing and surety agreements and helps them to comply with increasingly complex regulatory issues. CHEVALIER & SCIALES has an extensive experience to counsel and advice (including the delivery of legal opinions) on sophisticated financing tools and related surety instruments inter alia derivatives (credit default swaps, total return swaps, commodity swaps, options, forward transactions, etc.), bridge financing, senior and subordinated debts, securitization transactions, syndication agreements, pledge and surety.      

Some recently handled matters

  • Acted as counsel in a Luxembourg true-sale securitization transaction of a portfolio of US Life Settlements, Premium finance loans and ILITs for institutional investors (value of the transaction approx. 300 M USD – 2009);
  • Acted as counsel in Luxembourg synthetic securitization transactions of total return swap agreements (value of the overall transactions approx. 500 M USD – 2009);
  • Represented defrauded institutional, hedge fund and high net worth investors in Maddoff related litigation (2009 – 2010);
  • Assisting a client who was contemplating to launch a takeover bid on a major Luxembourg real estate corporation.
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