Timothé Lefèvre

Timothé Lefèvre advises clients on a broad range of banking and capital markets transactions, with a focus on acquisition finance, syndicated loans, and refinancing transactions.

Prior to joining Jones Day in 2025, Timothé practiced in the debt finance department in the Luxembourg office of another U.S. law firm where he advised on a wide range of financing transactions and debt capital structures, including cross-border acquisition and leveraged financings, refinancings, bridge facilities, bank/bond financings, and other lending transactions. During this time he advised Bain Capital on the refinancing of Les Hôtels de Paris (Machefert Group), a French high-end hotels operator listed on Euronext Paris, by way of a subscription to super senior bonds for an amount of approximately €135 million; the Luxembourg group Hameur on a partnership agreement with Ardian through which Ardian took a majority stake in Robot Coupe and Magimix, the food processor and cooking accessories brands; Nomura on its entry into an share purchase agreement with Macquarie to acquire its U.S. and European public asset management business for US$1.8 billion (subject to purchase price adjustments) in an all-cash transaction; and the private equity firm Hg on the acquisition by Téthys Invest and GIC of a minority stake in Septeo Group, a leading European software provider, in which Hg is the majority shareholder (the transaction values Septeo at more than €3 billion).

In addition, Timothé is a teaching assistant in research methodology and legal writing at the Free University of Brussels (Université Libre de Bruxelles).