Etienne is an Of Counsel in our Paris Finance and Restructuring team.

His practice spans complex financial and operational restructurings, as well as insolvency-related litigation, enabling him to support clients seamlessly at every stage of restructuring and insolvency matters.

He acts for a broad range of stakeholders across the capital structure, including debtors, creditors, shareholders and investors.

Experience & capabilities

Selected matters

  • The USPP bondholders: as part of the renegotiation of French football club Olympique Lyonnais' €320 million USPP stadium financing, the takeover of the club by sports businesswoman Michele Kang and the simultaneous renegotiation of the club's bank facilities
  • Segula Technologies: assisting on its financial restructuring and its accelerated safeguard proceedings
  • Bourbon’s key stakeholders: advising JP Morgan, Bank of America and Triton as part of the financial restructuring of the Bourbon group
  • European Investment Bank: advising as part of the amicable restructuring of an engineering services provider for automotive industry as well as part of the insolvency proceedings of Sigfox
  • EuroAPI’s lenders: advising EuroAPI’s RCF lenders as part of the amicable financial restructuring of its indebtedness
  • CACIB and Crédit Suisse: advising the agents as part of the financial restructuring of the Casino group, which was completed as part of accelerated safeguard proceedings
  • The Euro PP bondholders: advising on the amicable restructuring of LFB, a French laboratory fully owned subsidiary of the Agence de Participations de l’Etat (APE)
  • The French State: advising on providing new money financing as part of the sanctioned conciliation proceedings of ARC International

Background

Etienne was previously a Restructuring and Insolvency counsel of a major global law firm in Paris. 

He graduated from the Paris bar school (Ecole de Formation du Barreau) in 2017 and holds a master’s degree in Insolvency Law from La Sorbonne University, Paris I.

He speaks French and English fluently.