Current Employment Position(s)

Of Counsel

Languages

• English
• Italian

Lawyer Overview

Philippe Billot co-chairs Jones Day's banking and finance practice worldwide and coordinates its activity in the Firm's eight European offices. Philippe has dedicated his career to the banking, capital markets, and real estate practices.

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 also has extensive experience in French capital markets transactions, on both debt and equity products, and public company M&A (in particular public to private deals). He recently advised GE Capital on the takeover of Sophia, a property company publicly traded on the Paris market.

Philippe has served with several Paris law firms, including Jeantet & Associés, where he practiced from 1991 to 1994 as a partner and headed their financial institutions practice. From 1985 to 1991, he 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.

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

He 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 Chambers Global, PLC Which lawyer?, The Legal 500 EMEA, and Décideurs Stratégie Finance Droit.

Areas of Practice

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

Representative Cases

• Acquisition and Sale of a Paris High-Rise Office Building
• Acquisition of Amena
• Acquisition of Empain Graham Developpement
• Acquisition of Locafinanciere
• Acquisition of Sophia
• Cross-border Securitization
• Establishment of Fund
• Formation of Public-Private Partnership in connection with French Broadband Telecom Network , (2008)
• French Listed Property Company Acquisition
• Joint Venture with Gaz de France
• Property Acquisition
• Secured Credit Facility
• Secured Syndicated Financing Facility for Abertis
• Securitization
• Syndicated Multicurrency Revolving Facility

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

• 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

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75008 Paris 75008, France

Phones

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Websites

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