Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• French
• English

Lawyer Overview

Pierre-Nicolas Ferrand is a partner in the firm's European Finance Group and works closely with the Property, Bankruptcy & Reorganization and Project Development & Finance groups. His practice is primarily focused on banking and structured finance, including asset-based, real estate and project financings, for French and international arrangers and investors. He has extensive experience in restructuring and insolvency issues, including acquisitions and disposals of distressed assets, workout negotiations, financial and corporate restructurings, debtors and creditors representation, and formal insolvency procedures.

He has represented major financial institutions, multinational and French corporations in connection with the financing, the refinancing and the restructuring of companies and assets, including BNP Paribas, Bank of Ireland, GMAC, Natixis, Societe Generale, The Royal Bank of Scotland, Rhodia, SNS Property Finance and U.S. companies.

Prior to joining Shearman & Sterling in July 2007, Pierre-Nicolas Ferrand was a partner at Jones Day, where he practiced in the Paris and Singapore offices. Before becoming a lawyer, he practiced as an assistant trustee in bankruptcy.

Pierre-Nicolas Ferrand has been cited regularly as one of the best banking & finance as well as restructuring/insolvency lawyers in France in Chambers Global-Guide to the World's Leading Lawyers, published by Chambers & Partners, and is also recommended in The Europe Legal 500 guide, published by Legalease, as a leader in banking and financial law.

Areas of Practice

• Bankruptcy & Reorganization
• Economic Stabilization Advisory Group
• Finance
• Project Development & Finance
• Property

Representative Cases

• Acquisition and Construction Financing
• Acquisition Facility
• Acquisition of a Building
• Acquisition of Empain Graham Developpement
• Assignment of Debt
• Equity Bridge Financing
• Financing for Large Shopping Mall
• Financing of a LNG Carrier Vessel
• Financing of Acetyls Project Expansion
• Financing of LaSalle French Fund II
• Financing of the Construction of a Shopping Mall
• Financing of the Construction of a Shopping Mall
• Financing of the construction, operation and development of five wind parks located in France
• Financing of the construction, operation and development of four windparks located in France
• Guangdong LNG Import Terminal and Trunkline Project
• Issuance of several payment guarantees for an office building located in France
• Issuance of Shares by Spine Vision S.A. and FlexSpine Pte. Ltd.
• Multicurrency Revolving Syndicated Financing Facility for Altadis S.A. and Altadis Financial
• Petrochemical Project Financing and Restructuring
• Phu My 3
• Refinancing by Massena Group
• Refinancing of a Cruise Vessel
• Refinancing of the French Real Estate Portfolio of Euro Properties Investment II
• Refinancing of the French Real Estate Portfolio of Financiére Centuria
• Refinancing of the French Real Estate Portifolio of Finaciere Centuria
• Secured Line of Credit
• Secured Syndicated Financing Facility for Abertis
• Securitization
• Senior Secured Notes
• Settled-Asset Auction
• Windpark Project

Bar Admissions

• Paris, France

Professional Associations and Memberships

• French Institute of Bankruptcy Practitioners (IFPPC), TMA (Member)
• French Law Doctors Association (Member)

Honors and Awards

• One of the Best Banking & Finance as well as Restructuring/Insolvency Lawyers in France in Chambers Global-Guide to the World’s Leading Lawyers
• Recommended in The Europe Legal 500 Guide

Past Employment Positions

• Jones Day, Partner

Education

• Universite' de Paris II, Paris, France, 1993
  Ph.D.
  Major: Law
• University of Chicago Law School, Chicago, Illinois, 1992
  LL.M.
• Universite' de Paris II, Paris, France, 1990
  D.E.A., in Business and Economic-Law
  Major: Business and Economic-Law
• The Catholic University of Paris, 1991
  D.E.A.
  Major: Canonical Law

Published Works

• La question du sauvetage d'une entreprise ne peut être uniquement juridique, AGEFI, 2004
• Reform of French Bankruptcy Proceedings -- The Amicable Reorganizations Draft Project, a Flawed Attempt?, 2003
• Focus Abroad: French Bankruptcy Reform Moves Forward, 2003
• Un frein au redressement amiable, La Tribune, 2003

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