We offer our clients comprehensive services thanks to our integrated and specialised team of French, American and English lawyers operating in the world's major financial centres. Their knowledge is complemented by the local expertise of our various offices, especially in emerging economies, meaning our teams are able to offer and implement global and cross-border financing solutions.

Our ICM team is involved in all types of operations on capital markets, and in particular:

• The issuance of debt securities, structured or unstructured, such as stand-alone issues, EMTN and covered bond programmes, private placements (EuroPP), public offers, high-yield bonds, hybrid instruments eligible for Tier 1 and Tier 2, warrants, certificates, negotiable debt securities, debt buybacks and restructuring
   
• IPOs, privatisations, capital increases, block sales, secondary offerings and issuance of convertible or exchangeable bonds
   
• French, English and American law, and in the latter case on SEC-registered transactions, 144A and Regulation S offerings, private placements (USPP), and all regulatory and tax aspects related thereto

We have acquired considerable experience in advising arrangers, issuers and investors, particularly European and American, concerning transactions at an international or domestic level, in countries in which the firm operates and elsewhere. We have proven expertise in listing and trading on the major markets of Europe, North America and emerging countries, as well as in pan-European or multi-jurisdictional offers, and we maintain close relationships with the authorities of the countries concerned. Our ability to call upon the expertise of other teams in the firm, not only on financial matters, but in all areas of law, including Mergers & Acquisitions, Tax, Public and Administrative Law, and Restructuring, allows us to offer comprehensive solutions to complex financing issues for our clients.

With innovation and creativity at the heart of its development, the team has been involved in most of the major transactions on the market, such as establishing the first covered bond programmes and the first mortgage-bond financing programmes in France, as well as repackaging and structured finance transactions in emerging countries, and developing hybrid capital structures. The team has also developed real expertise in carrying out IPOs in emerging countries.

The team is consistently ranked among the best for Capital Markets by Chambers, Legal 500 and IFLR1000, and regularly receives various awards in this area.

Outstanding DCM team with further skills across the wider capital markets field. Well reputed for its presence on both plain vanilla and more complex deals, offering particular knowledge and experience of Euro PPs and high-yield issuances. Strengths: The team is noted in particular for its creative and commercial approach. A client notes: 'What I like a lot is that they are very open to brainstorming new subjects,' adding: 'They're very business-oriented.' Attentiveness to clients' demands has been remarked upon as a further strength of the firm: 'I highly appreciate the team's responsiveness. Gide has never missed a deadline in the many years I have been working with them.'
Chambers Europe 2017

Standout team for domestic French deals in the capital markets arena. Particularly well known for Euro PPs, EMTN programmes and mainstream, investment grade bond issuances.
Chambers Europe 2016

Gide Loyrette Nouel is ‘one of the few French firms able to compete with the Anglo-Saxon firms’, for issuer and underwriter representations alike. The practice has ‘deep knowledge of French law’ and is also able to provide US law advice including with regard to private placements and US IPOs. The team recently completed a high volume of work in the life sciences sector.
Legal 500 EMEA 2016

Gide Loyrette Nouel produces ‘excellent and efficient work’ and ‘knows very well the standards on the banks’ side and the needs from the issuers’ side’; it has notable experience in mandates involving the public sector. The practice recently assisted the banking syndicate with Vallourec’s €480m capital increase and advised Veolia Environnement on a €700m OCEANE issuance. Arnaud Duhamel ‘shows real judgement in difficult situations rather than sitting on the fence’ and Melinda Stege Arsouze provides US expertise.

Gide Loyrette Nouel has advised many leading French and international banks on small to large domestic transactions. Recent work includes assisting BNP Paribas with two issuances of notes by Vivendi, admitted to trading on Euronext Paris for a global amount of €1.5bn. The ‘competent and available’ Hubert du Vignaux is a great reference. Melinda Stege Arsouze provides US law advice and recently assisted the underwriting syndicates with two US dollar bond offerings by EDF, totalling $4.75bn.
Legal 500 EMEA 2017