Rhéa Christophilopoulos
Banking Partner, Paris
"I advise on a broad range of financing transactions across the credit spectrum. I’m dedicated to providing clients commercial and pragmatic solutions to complex issues."
Overview
Professional experience
Education and qualifications
Published works
Overview
Rhéa is specialised in acquisition and investment grade financings, including LBOs and debt restructurings. She acts for lenders, financial sponsors and borrowers.
Rhéa is recommended by several leading international directories such as Legal 500 describing her as “technically excellent” and Chambers Global 2023 which highlights the following clients’ quote: "She is extremely efficient, dedicated and gives excellent advice on all commercial and technical matters." Rhéa has also been ranked in the Top 10 Rising Stars category of the CAC 40 TOP 40 Lawyers’ ranking published by Forbes France and la Lettre des Juristes d’Affaires (LJA) in 2021 and in 2022.
Work highlights
Rhéa’s recent experience includes advising:
- the mandated lead arrangers in relation to the financing of the public offer by Schneider Electric of Aveva, a UK listed company, which was awarded French deal of the year by Global Capital
- the global co-ordinators on the refinancing of Casino’s existing debt facilities by a term loan B, senior secured notes and revolving credit facility
- Teleperformance SE on the financings of the acquisitions of Health Advocate, the Intelenet Group, Language Line Services Limited and Language Line Solutions LLC and on their first sustainability linked revolving facilities
- the mandated lead arrangers on the financing of the acquisition by Lactalis of the natural cheese dairy products in the US, the grated natural cheese dairy products in Canada and the natural cheese dairy products and processed cheese products outside the US and Canada of the Kraft Heinz Company
Professional experience
Rhéa is a regular speaker at clients’ and LMA seminars and trainings on banking topics.