Thomas Margenet-Baudry

Thomas’ recent experience includes advising:

• Afflelou and Afflelou PIKCO on private placements totaling €120 million
• iQera, the leading French debt collection company, on its financial restructuring
• The banks in the on Kapla Holding’s liability management exercise and new issue of €650 million senior secured floating rate notes
• Accorinvest on its €750 million inaugural high-yield bond offering and subsequent €650 million bond issue
• The initial purchasers on the issuance by Tereos of €300 million senior notes due 2030
• Novafives on the issurance of €425,000,000 floating senior secured notes due 2029
• Afflelou on a €560 million high-yield offering and €287 million concurrent tender offer
• The banks on Goldstory’s €850 million senior secured notes refinancing
• The arrangers on the French veterinary pharmaceutical group Ceva Santé Animale’s term loan B refinancing of €2.3 billion
• Term loan B lenders steering committee in relation to the signing of the lock-up agreement by the Casino group
• Loxam, France’s market leader and the fourth-largest global player in equipment and tool leasing, in its €400 million refinancing
• Burger King France in its €45 million acquisition financing
• The initial purchasers in Tereos’ €350 million high-yield senior notes offering
• The banks in connection with Faurecia’s €700 million of sustainability-linked senior notes due 2026
• Loxam in connection with a €130 Million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB)
• The underwriters of Faurecia’s €705 million rights issue
• Farallon Capital as subscriber of GreenYellow’s issue of €109 million convertible bonds with warrants attached; GreenYellow is a leading energy transition company and subsidiary of Casino Group
• Burger King in its sale of Quick
• Elior Group on its €550 million senior notes issuance
• Derichebourg in its inaugural €300 million green notes offering
• The underwriters (Credit Suisse, BNP Paribas, Crédit Agricole CIB, Natixis, Société Générale, Arkea Banque Entreprises et Institutionnels, and CM-CIC) in connection with the €480 million green high-yield bond issued by the Paprec Group
• The underwriters on the Initial Public Offering of American Depositary Shares by Cellectis
• Deutsche Bank, BNP Paribas, Credit Suisse, Crédit Agricole CIB, Natixis, and Société Générale in connection with the €660 million high-yield deal to refinance French industrial equipment rental business Loxam’s existing debt
• Fives on the refinancing of its existing senior and mezzanine debt through a €580 million high-yield bond
• Elior, a leading global caterer and support services provider, in connection with its IPO on the Euronext Paris
• JP Morgan, Credit Suisse, UniCredit, Crédit Agricole, and BNP Paribas in connection with the refinancing of the existing bank debt of Alain Afflelou Group via a €440 million high-yield bond offering due in 2019
• PAI Partners/Global Closure Systems in connection with the refinancing of its existing debt through an issuance of €350 million aggregate principal amount of high-yield bonds due 2018
• JP Morgan and the other underwriters in connection with the IPO of Criteo on NASDAQ
• Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan in connection with the €190 million high-yield offering by Oberthur Technologies
• Charterhouse Capital Partners / Elior in relation to the €350 million high-yield bond offering, to repay existing bank facilities
• BNPP, Goldman Sachs, and JP Morgan on the €450 million high-yield offering by Elis
• Credit Suisse, Crédit Agricole CIB, and Natixis on the €385 million high-yield bond offering of Medi-Partenaires
• BNPP on the €300 million high-yield offering by Cegedim
• Deutsche Bank and Credit Suisse on the €300 million high-yield offering by Loxam
• PAI Partners/Cerba on the €365 million high-yield offering by Cerba
• The joint bookrunners and initial purchasers, which included, among others, Deutsche Bank, on a €300 million high-yield bond offering by leading European equipment rental group Europcar
• Credit Suisse, Deutsche Bank, Citigroup, J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley, and UBS, as joint bookrunners and initial purchasers, on the CHF1.1 billion high-yield bond offering implemented in connection with the acquisition by Apax Partners of Orange Communications S.A. (Switzerland) from France Telecom
• Eutelsat S.A. in connection with its €800 million standalone bond offering
• Lagardère in connection with the attempted IPO of Canal+ France
• The joint bookrunners and initial purchasers, which included, among others, JP Morgan and Deutsche Bank, on a €350 million high-yield bond offering by the Europcar group to refinance in part a senior asset financing loan facility
• Alain Afflelou in connection with its attempted IPO on Euronext Paris
• Citi, HSBC, JP Morgan, as joint bookrunners and initial purchasers, on the standalone inaugural bond offering into the United States by RCI Banque for an aggregate principal amount of US$2 billion
• The joint bookrunners and initial purchasers, Deutsche Bank and Credit Agricole CIB, on a €400 million high-yield bond offering by Europcar Group SA to refinance in part its existing indebtedness
• Axa Private Equity and Permira on the high-yield bond offering by OdiGeo in connection with the joint acquisition by Axa Private Equity and Permira of Opodo and the related combination of Opodo, Go Voyages, and eDreams Inc
• The joint bookrunners and initial purchasers, which included, among others Société Générale, in connection with Eutelsat S.A.’s inaugural Regulation S standalone bond offering for an aggregate principal amount of €850 million
• The French sovereign fund FSI in connection with its minority investment into Euronext listed company Vilmorin & Co