Billot, Philippe

Current Employment Position(s)

Partner

Languages

• English
• French
• Italian

Lawyer Overview

Philippe Billot has dedicated his career to the banking, capital markets, and real estate areas of law.

Philippe has extensive experience in international bank finance, with particular emphasis on structured finance, syndicated loans, banking regulations, restructurings, and workouts. He regularly advises international financial institutions such as Morgan Stanley and the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds, GE Capital, and GMAC, as well as French clients such as Société Générale and HSBC, in structured finance and financing transactions of all sorts, including real estate.

He has extensive experience in French capital markets transactions (debt and equity products) and also public company M&A, particularly public to private deals.

From 1985 to 1991, Philippe was at the Crédit Commercial de France (now HSBC), where he served as the head of international business affairs in the legal department and then as general counsel. He was an associate professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine from 1991 to 1993. He has written numerous articles for legal and financial publications and is a frequent lecturer at banking and financial seminars.

Philippe is cited yearly as one of the leading banking, finance, real estate, and capital markets lawyers in France in numerous international guides and French magazines, such as The Legal 500 EMEA and Décideurs Stratégie Finance et Droit.

He is a member of the legal committee of MEDEF (Mouvement des Entreprises de France). He is trained as a civil law notary and as an attorney.

Areas of Practice

• Banking & Finance
• Business Restructuring & Reorganization
• Real Estate
• Corporate Compliance Programs
• Real Estate Capital Markets
• Financial Services
• Real Estate Finance

Representative Cases

• Atos Origin companies obtain facility for refinancing and corporate purposes
• Caisse Des Depots ET Consignations-led consortium forms partnership relating to French broadband telecom network , (2009)
• Crown securitizes receivables
• Dana securitizes receivables , (2009)
• Exide obtains $495 million lending facility , (2009)
• Farinia places bonds and shares with Fonds Stratégique d'Investissement , (2009)
• France Télécom acquires Amena for $7.7 billion , (2009)
• GE disputes finder's fee relating to claim brought by Brad M. Reiss in connection with acquisition of two French real estate companies , (2009)
• GE Real Estate France acquires shares in two property companies , (2009)
• General Electric acquires Sophia SA for approx. $3.9 billion
• JohnsonDiversey closes €50 million trade receivables securitization facility
• JPMorgan Chase, Barclays, La Caixa, and RBS provide $4.1 billion facility to Abertis for acquisition of SANEF , (2009)
• Morgan Stanley acquires and subsequently sells Zeus Paris Bercy building
• Morgan Stanley International Real Estate Funds form joint venture with Pirelli , (2009)
• Orion acquires LOCAFINANCE, a French listed property company , (2009)
• Orion Capital Managers acquires Empain Graham Developpement
• Orion Capital Managers acquires Locafinanciere
• Pillar forms Pillar Retail Europark Fund , (2009)
• Rhodia forms joint venture with Gaz de France
• Venture Finance provides £12.5 million financing to HH Associates Limited

West Practice Categories

Banking & Finance Law, Business & Commercial Law, Business Organizations, Commercial Banks, Commercial Leasing, Commercial Leasing, Commercial Real Estate, Condemnation, Condominiums & Cooperatives, Conveyancing, Credit Unions, Debtor/Creditor, Eminent Domain, International Banking, Land Use & Zoning, Landlord/Tenant, Lending & Secured Transactions, Loan Workouts, Mortgages & Foreclosures, Mortgages & Foreclosures, Public Finance, Real Estate Law, Residential Real Estate, Savings & Thrifts, State & Municipal Bonds & Financing, Title Insurance, Venture Capital

Bar Admissions

• Paris, France

Education

• Centre Sup d'Etudes Notariales
• U de Paris X - France

Published Works

• European financial markets: do they need a single regulator?, 2005
• The Recent Changes in the French Securitization Regulatory Framework, 2003

Address

2, rue Saint- Florentin
75001 Paris, France

Phones

33.1.56.59.39.16 (Business Phone)

Faxes

33.1.56.59.39.38 (Business Fax)

Emails

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Websites

http://www.jonesday.com