Agnès Braka-Calas is a member of the Banking & Financial Services department in Hughes Hubbard & Reed’s Paris office and has been a qualified lawyer in France since 1998. She concentrates on all aspects of banking and finance law, including financing, banking and financial regulations, asset management, transfer of loan portfolios and receivables, and the restructuring and acquisition of financial institutions. Agnès works mainly with international financial institutions, investment firms, asset management companies, investment funds and international unregulated companies.
Her experience includes:
Financing: Includes acquisition finance and project finance, particularly in the infrastructure and energy sectors. Agnès is involved in all stages of a transaction, from the negotiation to the drafting of finance and security documents
Banking and financial regulations: Includes banking and financial licenses, European passports, and drafting rules of good conduct in anti-money laundering procedures
Asset management: Includes the setting up of structured investment vehicles for all types of investors, mergers of investment vehicles, and marketing rules of investment vehicles in France
Transfer of loan portfolios and receivables
Restructuring and acquisition of financial institutions, including mergers, acquisitions and business sales
Areas of Concentration
Banking and Financial Law
Project, Corporate and Acquisition Finance
Regulatory Asset Management
Previous Experience
Associate and then of counsel in the Banking and Finance department of SNR Denton (2004 – 2012)
Banking and Finance associate, Landwell & Associés (1998 – 2004)
Publications
Articles published in the French Company & Commercial Newsletter published by the International Law Office:
intra-group guarantees in limited companies (sociétés anonymes),
measures taken by the Ordinance on January 19, 2019 law no. 2019-30 in the event of a no-deal Brexit,
the regime of immunity from execution of foreign states in the Sapin II law.
Co-author of the Guide to Security Interests in Securities and Securities Accounts and Deposit Accounts in International Transactions, part France - French law, Global financing Collateral, published by the American Bar Association
