Lorène Sani | London | Hogan Lovells

Lorène Sani

Senior Associate Corporate & Finance

Languages

French, English, Japanese

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Lorène Sani
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  • Overview
  • Experience
  • Credentials
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Lorène Sani leads a broad range of cross border acquisitions, real estate finance transactions and leverage financings. She advises financial institutions and debt funds, as well as sponsors and corporate clients.

Before joining our Paris office in 2021, Lorène practiced 5 years in France in leverage finance at a U.S. law firm, and in real estate finance at a French law firm. She then moved to London where she joined the banking team at two U.S. law firms working on leverage and fund financings for around three years.

She studied international law in Tokyo, business law in Nice (France) and international finance law in London. In 2013, she qualified as avocate with the Paris Bar.

Her native language is French, she is fluent in English, and proficient in Japanese.

Representative experience

Advising Exosens with its new banking financing with respect to its IPO in the Paris market.

Advising Activa Capital with respect to its minority participation in the share capital of Willing.

Advising the founders of Neoness with respect to its acquisition by Keep Cool.

Advising Intermediate Capital Group with respect to the financing of the acquisition by Naos group of the shares in Airport Hotel and the construction of the Sheraton hotel in Nice.

Advising Tesca group with respect to the refinancing of its indebtedness.

Advising a pool of banks with respect to the acquisition of Sessùn by Quadrivio Group. 

Advising Eurazeo Global Investor with respect to the financing fo the acquisition of the FuturMaster group.

Advising an asset manager with respect to the financing or refinancing of its real estate portfolio.

Advising KSL Capital Partners with respect to the refinancing of the indebdeteness of the Beamier group.

Advising KSL Capital Partners with respect to the financing of the acquisition of the Sereno Hotels.

Credentials

Education
  • Certificat d'Aptitude à la Profession d'Avocat, École de Formation du Barreau (EFB), 2013
  • LLM in International Financial Law, King's College London, School of Law, yes, 2011
  • Master 2 Droit de l’entreprise et des affaires, Nice Sophia Antipolis University, yes, 2009
  • Exchange Program, Keio University, yes, 2008
Bar admissions and qualifications
  • Paris