Gilles Saint Marc

Gilles Saint Marc advises corporates, asset managers, and investors across a wide range of alternative financing, offering a global and integrated vision on regulatory, tax, and transactional matters. Gilles is one of the pioneers of French securitization since 1988 with a focus on Pan-European trade receivables, mortgage-backed securities, and synthetic and EU securitization regulations. Gilles also advises on the structuring, formation, fundraising, and investment of French and Luxembourg funds across a wide range of asset classes, including private debt, private equity, infrastructure, funds of funds, continuation funds, and secondaries (GP-led or LP-led). He also advises more than 20 fintech companies. Gilles speaks French and English and is fluent in German. Gilles’ experience includes involvement in the Coeur Défense litigation in France regarding a €1.6 billion CMBS deal involving 20 decisions rendered by the Court of Appeal of Paris, the French Supreme Court, and the Versailles Court of Appeal which have had a significant impact on the French structured finance industry. Gilles also actively participated with the French Treasury and the Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) in drafting various legislation creating a new French alternative investment vehicle (Organisme de financement spécialisé), modernizing the French securitization framework and adapting the landscape of all French alternative investment funds from 2017–2024.