Emilie Ferre
Emilie Ferré

Emilie Ferré

Associate

Emilie focuses her practice on derivatives and structured finance.

She advises U.S. and international banks as well as large corporations on regulatory and transactional aspects of a wide range of derivatives transactions, including OTC derivatives across all major asset classes, repurchase transactions, securities lending and structured finance transactions. She regularly assists clients with their hedging transactions in the context of M&A and project finance transactions and has experience with the negotiation of their master agreements and collateral documentation.

Prior to her current role, she worked as an associate in the Paris International Capital Markets team, with a focus on the issuance of vanilla, hybrid, and structured debt securities, including innovative products such as sustainability-linked bonds and green bonds, as well as liability management operations.

Expertise

Industries

Experience

Representative matters

  • The banking syndicate in relation to L’Oréal’s inaugural public bond offering of EUR 3 billion, including a sustainability-linked tranche.
  • Gecina on the requalification of its entire bond portfolio into Green Bonds (for a total amount of EUR5.6 billion) through consent solicitations of existing bondholders. This was the first operation of this kind in France.
  • The banking syndicate in relation to Verallia’s inaugural issue of Sustainability?Linked Bonds. This was the first time the AMF approved a prospectus allowing the listing of sustainability?linked bonds on Euronext Paris.
  • The arrangers, lenders and hedge banks on the financing of the acquisition of TowerTel S.p.A. by Phoenix Tower International, a portfolio company of Blackstone.
  • TDF Infrastructure (intermediate holding company of the TDF Group, a leading player in France in the field of telecommunications infrastructure and audiovisual broadcasting) on a new bond issue and a tender offer for its existing bonds.

Pro bono

  • Alliance Française Pro Bono pour les Afghans (AFBA) (French Pro Bono Alliance for Afghans) : helping Afghan nationals apply for a visa to join one or more members of their family living in France.

Qualifications

Admissions

France, Paris Bar, 2019

,Foreign Legal Consultant, New York, USA, 2023 

Academic

Master I, Corporate Law, Paris Nanterre University, 2015-2016

Master II, Corporate Structure and Business Law, Paris Nanterre University, 2016-2017

Haute Ecole des Avocats Conseils (HEDAC), 2018-2019    

Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.