Claire Poirot

Banking and finance associate with experience in project finance transactions and real estate finance, advising global financial institutions, lenders, sponsors and developers on complex greenfield and brownfield projects, syndicated financings and multi‑jurisdictional investment structures. Strong exposure to cross-border transactions, and syndicated financings. Skilled in drafting and reviewing LMA documentation and French law loans documentation, bonds documentation, security packages and intercreditor agreements (both in French and English languages).

Experienced in coordinating stakeholders across jurisdictions and different teams, managing condition precedents and closing processes.

Associate – Finance - Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP - Paris

(2024-01)

Focus : Real Estate Finance, Project Finance, Energy & Infrastructure,

• Advising borrowers, sponsors and lenders on national and cross-border project finance, real estate finance, and asset finance as well as restructuring transactions
• Drafting, reviewing and negotiating LMA-style and non-LMA style French law financing documentation (i.e. security packages, loan agreements, amendment as well as amendment and restatement agreements, intercreditor and subordination agreements)
• Advising on security agent mechanisms, perfection requirements, release mechanics and enforcement scenarios
• Drafting and reviewing bonds documentation (i.e. notes subscription agreements, terms and conditions)
• Drafting and reviewing ancillary documentation (i.e. fee letters, inter-company loan agreements, legal opinions, corporate authorisations, release agreements, power of attorney)
• Responsible for due diligence on facilities agreement (i.e. change of control, security package enforcement)
• Coordinating multi-jurisdictional and multidisciplinary stakeholders on cross-borders transactions
• Reviewing condition precedent elements, managing closings and post-closing processes, including managing security formalities and registration requirements
• Supervising and training legal trainees
• Advised a pool of banks for the €180 million financing of Amarenco for the construction of 500+ new photovoltaic projects
• Advised an independent power producer, on a €240 million syndicated loan arranged with a banking pool comprising ten institutions
• Assisted a French asset management company on a €40 million bond financing for one of the largest French independent biomethane producer
• Advised a pool of banks in arranging a financing totaling €350 million secured for a French renewable energy producer to support the construction of around 1,100 solar power plants in shaded, rooftop, and ground-mounted configurations, with a total capacity of up to 400MWp
• Cross-border restructuring and financing of a global daycare company
• Advised a pan‑European investment and asset manager on the €225 million refinancing of a five‑asset portfolio
• Assisted and advising Burstone on their partnership with Blackstone relating to its €1.1 billion pan-European logistics portfolio
• Advised Tristan Capital Partners in connection with the €304 million investment and capex financing of the pan-European easyHotel portfolio

Legal Trainee – Finance - Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP - Paris

(2023-07 - 2023-12)

• Assisted on real estate finance and project finance transactions
• Drafted and reviewed French law security documents (French and English languages)
• Drafted and reviewed condition precedents elements and managing the closing process

Legal Trainee – Financial Markets - Banking - Simmons & Simmons LLP - Paris

(2023-01 - 2023-06)

• Assisted on leveraged buy-out transactions
• Drafted ancillary documents (i.e. corporate authorisations, fee letters, legal opinions)
• Drafted and reviewed condition precedent elements and managed closing process

Legal Trainee – Leveraged Finance - Bird & Bird LLP - Paris

(2022-07 - 2022-12)

• Assisted on leveraged buy-out transactions
• Drafted ancillary documents (i.e. corporate authorisations, fee letters, legal opinions)
• Drafted and reviewed condition precedent elements and managed closing process

LL.M.

• Business Law - Queen Mary University of London (2022)

Specialised Graduate Diploma - North American Business Law - University of Montreal (2019)

Certificate - Common Law - University of Montreal (2020)

International and European Law (Erasmus year) - University of Kent (2018)

LL.B.

• Licence en droit - University of Bordeaux IV (2018)