Etienne Gentil

Etienne's experience includes representing:

• Platinum Equity as it enters into exclusive negotiations to acquire Solo Group, a European market leader in business-to-business personalizable products
• Alcentra on the People & Baby Group’s financial and corporate restructuring
• Ipsen, a global specialty-care biopharmaceutical company, on its €500 million inaugural rated notes issuance
• XpFibre, the largest independent fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) infrastructure operator in France, and its shareholders Altice, OMERS, Allianz, and AXA, on XpFibre’s €5.8 billion debt refinancing
• Mobivia, a European leader in automotive maintenance, repair, and equipment, on the signing of its first line of credit linked to sustainable development commitments (Sustainability-Linked Loan), for €380 million
• Loxam, Europe’s market leader and the fourth-largest global player in equipment and tool leasing, in its €400 million refinancing
• Loxam in connection with a €130 million loan from the European Investment Bank (EIB)
• Imerys, the world leader in mineral-based specialty solutions for industry, in its exclusive negotiations to sell its High Temperature Solutions business (HTS) to Platinum Equity
• Fortress Investment Group in the Restructuring of Football Club des Girondins de Bordeaux (Bordeaux FC)
• 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
• Marathon Asset Management in the refinancing and anticipated reimbursement of Foraco International SA's existing debt
• Fortress Investment Group in the sale and refinancing of Bordeaux FC, a French professional football club
• PAI in the financing of the recommended P2P all-cash offer for all shares of Koninklijke Wessanen N.V.
• Eurazeo in the financing of its LBO acquisition of Dutch Ophthalmic Research Center from Montagu PE
• The MLAs in their financing of the P2P acquisition of April, the French listed insurance brokering company
• Apera Capital in its unitranche LBO financing of the acquisition of Vanadium by Inside Secure
• Partners Group Credit in its unitranche LBO financing of the acquisition of Alltub by OEP Tubes
• Fortress in its LBO financing of the acquisition by GACP of the Football Club Girondins de Bordeaux division from the M6 Group
• Permira Advisers in the first and second lien LBO financing of its acquisition of Exclusive Networks
• Bridgepoint in the unitranche LBO financing of its acquisition of HTL
• Bain Capital in the LBO financing of its acquisition of Consolis
• Carlyle International Energy Partners in the financing of its acquisition of assets of Shell Gabon