Florian Seck
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Florian Seck

Associate

Florian Seck specialises in international capital markets law, in particular with regard to bonds, securitisations and other structured finance transactions.

Expertise

Experience

Representative matters

  • alstria office REIT-AG, a leading real estate operator in Germany, in connection with the issuance of a new corporate bond amounting to EUR500m and the repurchase of the three outstanding bonds. The new bond was issued as a fixed-rate unsecured bond in a challenging market environment. The proceeds from the issuance of the new bond will be used for the repurchase of three existing corporate bonds and for general corporate purposes.
  • Corestate Capital Holding S.A., an investment manager and co investor with assets under management of around EUR 13.2 billion in its core business, on its successful restructuring. Under this highly complex multi-jurisdictional bond restructuring, financial liabilities under outstanding notes were reduced from EUR 535 million to EUR 143 million and the equity base received a substantial boost through recapitalisation.
  • The European Investment Fund (EIF) and the European Investment Bank (EIB) in connection with Enpal's first public securitization of solar financing in Europe. The asset-backed securities (ABS) transaction has a total volume of EUR240m and is secured by a portfolio of around 8,500 solar financings originated by Enpal for German homeowners.
  • A Romanian financial institution forming part of a German financial institutions group as originator on its EUR 370 million inaugural synthetic securitization (SRT) transaction with a multilateral development bank (2021) and on a recent EUR 335 million repeat SRT transaction (2023). The original transaction was the first synthetic securitization of this kind in Romania.

Qualifications

Admissions

Rechtsanwalt, Germany, 2022

Academic

  • Second German Law Degree, Frankfurt Higher Regional Court, Germany, 2022
  • First German Law Degree, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany, 2019

Languages

English, German
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.