Baptiste Gelpi

Partner

Baptiste has more than 20 years’ experience advising arrangers, dealers, originators, sponsors, investors, and issuers in connection with a wide range of debt instruments, including securitisations (domestic and cross-border), disintermediated financings, funds, debt issuances (Euro private placements, Islamic bonds/sukuks, and impact finance), liability management, distressed and portfolio debt acquisitions, and derivatives. Baptiste’s practice also covers fund-related work, including fund structuring and establishment, and counselling on fund-related regulatory and compliance issues. He also regularly advises on structured debt restructurings.

Experience

Representative matters

Advising NeoT on the first whole-business securitisation in France of receivables arising from new mobility services.
Advising LeasePlan on its first public securitisation of lease receivables in France.
Advising two major investment banks as arrangers on the securitisation of equipment lease receivables.

Recognitions

  • Selected through peer review for inclusion in The Best Lawyersin France for Banking and Finance Law, 2020-2024; Structured Finance Law, 2020-2022; and Capital Markets Law,  2019-2024
  • Named Lawyer of the Year in The Best Lawyers™ in France for Capital Markets Law, 2024
  • Recognised as Highly Regarded in IFLR1000 Global for France: Capital Markets  Debt, Derivatives, Structured Finance, and Securitisation, 2021-2024; and for France: Capital Markets – Derivatives, 2023-2024

Credentials

Education

  • Université Paris II - Panthéon - Assas, Paris, Postgraduate degree in civil law, DEA Droit Privé Général
  • Université Paris II - Panthéon - Assas, Paris, Postgraduate degree in business corporate and tax law, Magistère de Juriste d’Affaires, DESS Droit des Affaires et Fiscalité

Professional admissions & qualifications

  • Paris

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