Frédéric Gros practices banking and finance law with an emphasis on real estate, asset finance, and project finance. He acts as a transactional lawyer and as a litigator in financial matters before civil and commercial courts (including ESG [environmental, social, and governance] litigation against financial institutions and corporates).
Frédéric regularly advises Goldman Sachs in the financing of various investments made in France (277 Saint-Honoré, Le Havre, and Romainville). He advised Blackstone in its first transaction in France as direct lender in a VEFA (off-plan property) financing related to an office building in the Pas-de-Calais. He recently advised the subordinated lenders in the financing of the acquisition of a five-star hotel located at 150 Champs-Elysées. He also advised the German bank pbb in the financing of the purchase of the Artillery Hotel to the French State by the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques.
He regularly advises Coöperatieve Rabobank U.A. in relation to corporate loans extended to French agricultural cooperatives.
Frédéric represents banks such as Dexia Crédit Local, SFIL, CAFFIL, and Crédit Agricole CIB in litigation related to structured loans and derivatives or to interest rates challenged by borrowers. In this respect, he represented the banks in cases where the Cassation court dismissed all the cities' claims against Dexia Crédit Local, SFIL, and CAFFIL (Cour de cassation: Saint-Leu-la-Forêt [28 March 2018], Saint-Cast-le-Guildo [26 June 2019] and Paris Court of Appeals after cassation: Sassenage [14 October 2021], and CHU de Saint-Etienne [20 April 2022]) and Depfa Bank plc in the SIDRU de Saint-Germain-en-Laye case where the Cassation court dismissed all the claims of this syndicate of municipalities against the bank (Cour de cassation [5 September 2018]).
執業經驗
- 13 novembre 2018
Projet de loi PACTE : Deux séminaires dédiés chez Jones Day - 12 avril 2018
Finale de la 4ème édition du Prix Jones Day/Paris II/ESSEC - 4 juillet 2017
Actualités du contentieux bancaire et financier - 31 mai 2016
Réforme du droit des contrats et du droit des obligations - 2ème volet : enjeux pour les banques et acteurs financiers - February 14, 2013
European Banking – On the Road to Union and Harmonization? - 10 février 2011
La structuration des financements à l'épreuve des nouvelles règles fiscales de sous-capitalisation - 29 avril 2009
Comment sécuriser le financement de l'opération ?, Commission M&A de l’AFJE “Comment sécuriser vos transactions en temps de crise ?” (link)
- University of Paris II, Panthéon-Assas (CAPA 1993); Jean Moulin University, Lyon III (DEA in Business Law; DESS in Banking & Finance Law)
- Paris Bar
Annually listed as a leading lawyer in France in banking & finance by Chambers Global, Chambers Europe, and The Legal 500 EMEA
Leading individual in dispute resolution: banking litigation by The Legal 500 (2018-2022)
Team ranked 4 stars in Litigation in France — Option Droit & Affaires (2020)
Banking/Finance prize at the Palmarès du Droit awards — Le Monde du Droit and AFJE (2020)
- English, French