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Fabien Debroise - Partner
Avocat à la Cour, Luxembourg
Admitted: Luxembourg Bar, 2003
Languages: French (native), English (fluent), German (fluent)
With over 20 years of experience in the Luxembourg legal market, Fabien is an expert in fund finance, acquisition finance, and restructuring. His practice focuses on advising financial institutions, fund sponsors and corporate clients on a broad range of complex financing transactions, including capital call facilities, LBOs, and large-scale real estate developments.
He also has extensive experience in restructuring and insolvency matters, providing strategic guidance to clients navigating distressed situations, debt restructurings, and workouts, as well as in capital market matters focusing on debt issuance and listing.
Fabien is ranked for Banking & Finance in Chambers & Partners Europe, Legal 500 and IFLR 1000.
He graduated in 2001 from the University of Bordeaux (France) and in 2002 with a LL.M in European Law from the Saarland University (Germany).
He is qualified in Luxembourg and speaks French, English and German.
Experience
(prior to joining the firm)
Acting for a club of lenders on a €181m loan to an indirect Luxembourg subsidiary of a French private equity firm to finance the acquisition of a minority stake in the first telecom tower operator in Italy
Acting for the Spanish branch of a French credit institution on the financing of the sale and leaseback of 27 of Mercadona's supermarket sites
Advising a Luxembourg investment fund in relation to a secured capital call facility of up to €300m made available by a European investment bank
Acting for a Luxembourg fund in relation to an up to $350m credit agreement with a US bank as lender
Acting for a German bank on the preparation of a €250m facility agreement, governed by Luxembourg law, with a clearing institution as borrower
Acting for a Swiss credit institution on a €80 million Luxembourg law governed facility agreement to a French investment service company
Acting for a German bank on the preparation of a €250m facility agreement, governed by Luxembourg law, with a clearing institution as borrower
Acting for an international banking consortium on a €322.2m financing for a rolling stock lessor
Acting for a UK bank on a $475 million facility to two compartments of a Luxembourg-based investment fund
Acting for a club of lenders on a £300 million facility to two funds established in Luxembourg
Advising a US bank on a €400 million facility to a Luxembourg infrastructure fund
Acting for a club of 17 lenders on a €2.2 billion capital call bridge facility agreement (to be increased to approximately €5 billion) for a private equity fund managed by a leading private equity firm
Advising a leading US investment bank on the multi-jurisdictional financial restructuring of Atento, a leading global business process outsourcer
Advising an ad hoc committee of bondholders in connection with the restructuring of the Carlson Travel Inc group through a Chapter 11 pre-pack process
