Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2001, partner Laetitia Lemercier specialises in structured finance. She has substantial experience in real estate, project and acquisition financing transactions, as well as in debt restructuring.

She regularly advises financial institutions, borrowers and investors at all stages of the structuring or restructuring transaction, and of the drafting and negotiating of complex financing transactions.

Laetitia Lemercier co-drafted the Euro PP template loan contract. She holds a postgraduate degree in business and tax law, a Master’s degree in business law from Paris II University (Panthéon-Assas) and a Master’s degree in economy and finance from Paris IX University (Dauphine). 

Laetitia Lemercier is recommended in banking and finance by international legal guides Legal 500 EMEA since 2017, IFLR1000 since 2018, and Best Lawyers in France 2019 & 2020. She is also listed as one of ILFR1000's Women Leaders in 2018 and 2019.

 « Laetitia Lemercier enters the rankings for the first time this year. She advises on the financing and refinancing of domestic infrastructure projects. She also assists with concession mandates. An impressed client remarks that "Laetitia Lemercier is not only very talented but also dedicated to her clients, with a good ability to reach objectives and meet deadlines." »
Chambers Europe 2022

 « Kamel Ben Salah, Rémi Tabbagh and Laetitia Lemercier are among the best for high-end real estate finance work. »
​Legal 500 EMEA 2021

« Laetitia Lemercier is an excellent lawyer (especially in banking law) who remains attentive to find the best solutions for her clients. »
Legal 500 EMEA 2021

« Laetitia Lemercier is very professional, precise and available with a great ability to adapt the service requested in order to make transactions successful. »
Legal 500 EMEA 2021

« Laetitia Lemercier is a true expert who is always available to her clients. »
Legal 500 EMEA 2021

« Gide Loyrette Nouel ‘combines strong expertise and sector knowledge with strong execution skills’, has ‘a competent and business-oriented team’ and ‘always finds a solution’; the group is further noted for its office network outside France. Structured finance, project finance and acquisition finance are core areas of expertise, but the team also has experience in debt restructuring. The team advised HSBC France on structuring the refinancing of the public private partnership (PPP) related to the construction and maintenance of the French Ministry of Defence, involving project debt, Dailly debt and hedging agreements; and drew on its expertise in the real estate sector to act for BNP Paribas, Natixis and ING on the €550m refinancing of Parisian building complex Quadrans. In the acquisition finance space, it assisted Partners Group with the French aspects of the financing of the acquisition of the Cerba Group, and advised Europcar on its €1.5bn cross-border acquisition of Goldcar. Bank of Ireland, Natixis and Crédit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank are other clients. The ‘efficient, discreet and proactive’ Kamel Ben Salah is ‘a very experienced lawyer in real estate financing’ and has ‘strong negotiation skills’. Ben Salah jointly leads the practice with Eric Cartier-Millon, Laetitia Lemercier and Rémi Tabbagh. Thomas Binet was promoted to the partnership in January 2018. »
Legal 500 EMEA 2019