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Mathieu Fabre-Magnan

Mathieu Fabre-Magnan

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Mathieu Fabre-Magnan is a partner in Salans' Moscow office. Mathieu focuses on M&A and banking and finance transactions.

Mathieu has specialised in Eastern European transactions since 1990 and has been based in Moscow since 1993. Over the years, he has helped clients to set up, develop and finance their operations in Russia, including by implementing ground-breaking transactions. These include the first acquisition of land in post-soviet Russia by a foreign-owned enterprise, the first receivable-backed financing for a Moscow commercial property developer and the first securitised international borrowing for a major Russian region.

Mathieu is a leading M&A lawyer acting for European clients as well as for leading Russian investors. Legal 500 2010 ranks him among the leading experts in the area of Corporate and Commercial/M&A in Russia; European Legal Experts 2010 recognises him as a leading expert in Banking & Finance and Corporate & Commercial; PLC Which lawyer? 2010 has ranked him among recommended practitioners in Corporate/M&A Transactions and Banking & Finance.

Recent Experience:

  • Advising on the structuring and implementation of a brownfield glasswool plant project in the Moscow region
  • Advising a leading German insurance company on the acquisition of a strategic shareholding in a major Russian insurance company
  • Advising the Russian subsidiaries of several Western banks on structured finance transactions
  • Advising leading luxury goods companies on their development in Russia

Career:

  • Co-Head of Salans' Global Luxury, Fashion & Beauty Practice Group; Head of Russian French Desk; Partner – Salans, Moscow (2012 to date)

  • Managing Partner - Salans, Moscow (2006-2011)

  • Partner - Salans, Moscow (1996-2005 )

  • Head of Moscow Office - Gide Loyrette Nouel (1993-1996)

  • Solicitor of the Supreme Court of England and Wales (1992)

  • Admitted to the Paris bar (1988)

Education:

  • King's College, London (LL.B., 1984)
  • University of Paris I (Maîtrise de Droit, 1986; DEA de Droit Privé, 1986)

Languages:

  • French
  • English
  • Russian

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