Founded in Paris in 1920, Gide is a leading international law firm with 12 offices spread throughout the world.
Gide is physically present in six regions of the world, with 11 offices, enabling it to act on cases globally.
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Xavier Chassin de Kergommeaux specialises in asset-backed financing, securitisations, setting up covered bonds issuers (sociétés de crédit foncier and sociétés de financement de l'habitat), structured finance, and defeasance transactions, acting for arrangers in major financing transactions on amounts upwards of EUR 15 billion per operation.
He has in particular advised the shareholder banks of the Société de Financement de l'Economie (SFEF), a refinancing vehicle set up in October 2008 to support French credit institutions, on their equity participation, and assisted the SFEF with the implementation of loans and financing to credit institutions.
He recently advised on refinancing public-private partnerships through capital markets, for the new headquarters of the French Ministry of Defence and the new Paris Court (Tribunal de Paris).
Xavier was Senior Partner of Gide from January 2018 to December 2020, and Managing Partner from January 2004 to December 2009.
He was a member of the Paris Bar Council from January 2016 to December 2018.
Xavier de Kergommeaux was named Lawyer of the Year in Finance by Best Lawyers in France in 2010 and 2014.
