Philippe Billot
Of Counsel
Paris
Tel: +33.1.56.59.39.16
Fax: +33.1.56.59.39.38
Email:
pbillot@jonesday.com
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Philippe Billot has dedicated his career to the banking, capital markets, and real estate areas of law.
Philippe has extensive experience in international bank finance, with particular emphasis on structured finance, syndicated loans, banking regulations, restructurings, and workouts. He regularly advises international financial institutions such as Morgan Stanley and the Morgan Stanley Real Estate Funds, GE Capital, and GMAC, as well as French clients such as Société Générale and HSBC, in structured finance and financing transactions of all sorts, including real estate.
He has extensive experience in French capital markets transactions (debt and equity products) and also public company M&A, particularly public to private deals.
Philippe has served with several Paris law firms, including Jeantet & Associés, where he practiced from 1991 to 1994 as a partner and headed their financial institutions practice. From 1985 to 1991, he was at the Crédit Commercial de France (now HSBC), where he served as the head of international business affairs in the legal department and then as general counsel.
Philippe was an associate professor at the University of Paris-Dauphine from 1991 to 1993. He has written numerous articles for legal and financial publications and is a frequent lecturer at banking and financial seminars.
He is cited yearly as one of the leading banking, finance, real estate, and capital markets lawyers in France in numerous international guides and French magazines, such as The Legal 500 EMEA and Décideurs Stratégie Finance et Droit.
He is a member of the legal committee of MEDEF (Mouvement des Entreprises de France). He is trained as a civil law notary and as an attorney.
Admitted
Paris Bar
Education
Avocat Diploma (1981); Notaire Diploma (1981); University of Paris (Maîtrise in Private Law 1976); Center for Advanced Notarial Studies, Paris (Diploma 1976)
Languages
English, French, Italian