Ariane Mehrshahi Marks
Partner Corporate & Finance
Languages
English, French, German
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Overview
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Legal500 2019"proactive, client-oriented and pragmatic"
With over 17 years of experience in the Luxembourg finance sector, Ariane heads our capital markets and finance practice, covering both capital markets as well as banking matters.
Her practice covers various types of loan financing, refinancing and restructuring, including fund finance, acquisition finance, leveraged finance, real estate finance, asset and trade finance, on the creation of collateral over all types of assets, as well as in capital markets matters such as equity and debt issuance (including high yield bonds), securitisation transactions with regulated as well as non-regulated securitisation vehicles, listing matters and various regulatory aspects of capital market transactions.
Ariane's multi-national training and education in Germany, France and the UK is a valuable asset for both cross-border transactions and Luxembourg aspects. She has been part of the team that opened the Luxembourg office in 2013. Prior to that, she practiced for over five years at the Luxembourg office of a magic circle firm and two years at a highly respected independent Benelux firm.
Legal500 2019"proactive, client-oriented and pragmatic"
Representative experience
European Investment Bank on a EUR 30 million bilateral loan facility, governed by Luxembourg law, to Medneo, a German innovative medical radiology images provider.
Mercedes-Benz bank in relation to Luxembourg law on an ABS transaction amounting to €1bn, involving a Luxembourg securitisation company as issuer.
Raiffeisen-Leasing as sole arranger in relation to Luxembourg law aspects on a securitisation of receivables amounting to €438mio, EIB as main investor.
Elite Partners Capital, a Singapore-based real estate fund, on the sale of a pan-European portfolio of logistics assets to Blackstone.
pbb Deutsche Pfandbriefbank on its collaboration with Goldman Sachs Asset Management on the financing of the acquisition of "Schlosshof Wandsbek", an 15,600 m² Hamburg office campus.
Advanzia Bank S.A. on the securitisation of a German credit card portfolio.
AccorInvest on its financial restructuring.
Intermediate Capital Group plc on the cross-border financing of an office complex in Berlin-Moabit
Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG on the financing of a building complex in Berlin.
Santander Consumer Bank AG on its EUR 5,000,000,000 Programme for the Issuance of Asset Backed Notes.
Norddeutsche Landesbank - Girozentrale -, ABN AMRO Bank, Commerzbank Aktiengesellschaft, and CACIB as lead managers on the placement of the world's first Green Covered Bond under a legal framework
Volkswagen leasing on multiple securitization transactions of lease receivables and residual values of the cars in various jurisdictions.
Banca Ifis and Intesa Sanpaolo as arrangers in relation to a securitisation of receivables arising from loans granted by a fund managed by Azimut Investments to Italian SMEs.
Taulia Inc, a San Francisco-based fintech business on the design and launch of their innovative multi-funder financing platform, a first-in market financing model for supply chain financing.
PSA Bank Deutschland GmbH on its first public (STS) securitisation of auto lease receivables and residual values through the issuance of €600m of fully placed debt securities listed on the LuxSE.
Citi as the senior lender on a €200m revenue-based financing facility for Silvr.
Chequers Capital on the acquisition of Corning Services.
Credentials
- LLM in Commercial Law, University of Glasgow, 2006
- Master in Business Law, University Robert Schuman
- Second State Exam in Law, North Rhine-Westphalia
- First State Exam in Law, Saarland
- Hamm
- Luxembourg
- Luxembourg
- German-French Jurist Association (DFJ).
- LuxCMA (Luxembourg Capital Market Association) - Securitisation Working Group and Best Practice Working Group I Management & Corporate Governance sub-group,