About
Avocat à la cour, Samvel is a finance senior associate in the global transactions group in Paris.
His practice focuses on general lending, syndicated loans, acquisition finance, leveraged finance, refinancings and restructuring, and securitisations. He acts for both financial institutions and borrowers on French and cross border transactions.
Samvel is fluent in French, English and Armenian.
Additional Information
Samvel's experience includes advising:
- BNP Paribas and Orange SA on the first handset securitisations in France and in Poland
- Getlink SE on its offering of €600 million senior secured green notes
- Société Générale and other international investors on a private placement tap issuance by Séché Environnement S.A. of €70 million green bonds
- La Française des Jeux on the all-cash tender offer for Kindred to create a European gaming champion
- Ekinops in its €100 million credit line to support its external growth strategy
- PayPal on an exclusive multi-year agreement for a €3 billion replenishing commitment under which private credit funds and accounts managed by KKR will purchase buy now, pay later loan receivables worth €40 billion and originated by PayPal in France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom
- Verallia on the refinancing of its syndicated credit facility, refinancing with a €1.1bn sustainability linked term loan and revolving credit facility
- Omnes Education regarding the establishment of an incremental facility under the existing senior facilities agreement in the context of the acquisition of DataScientest, an on-line data and cyber training platform
- Serb Pharmaceuticals group on the implementation of a EUR 65m incremental unitranche financing, the purpose of which is to finance bolt-on acquisitions
- Cinven on its entry as a majority shareholder of the telecom and technology infrastructure company, Euro Techno Com currently valued at €1,9 million
- EQT Infrastructure in the acquisition of 50% of the French water group SAUR
- Charterhouse Capital Partners LLP on the financing of its acquisition of a majority stake, alongside the management, in Labelium, a leading B2B digital marketing performance consulting agency
- A consortium of banks on the restructuring of the financial indebtedness of the Bourbon Group
- CMA CGM on the reorganisation of its securitisation programme
- Charterhouse Capital Partners and SERB on the acquisition of BTG Specialty Pharmaceuticals
- An ad hoc committee of lenders on the financial restructuring of the AccorInvest group
Samvel Der Arsenian
Senior Associate
Paris Office
9 avenue de Messine
Paris 75008