Agnès Braka-Calas
Locations
Languages Spoken
English
Bar Admissions
France (Paris)
Education
Université de Paris II, J.D., Postgraduate Degree in Business and Tax Law Université de Paris II, LL.M.
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
News & Insights For Agnès Braka-Calas
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The firm represented West African cotton company Société d'Égrenage de Coton, or the Society for the Development of Cotton (Sodeco), in negotiating and documenting a €90 million pre-export financing.
Hughes Hubbard Advises Sucres & Denrées Côte d'Ivoire on Cocoa Financing
The firm advised French commodities firm Sucres & Denrées Côte d'Ivoire on a pre-financing facility for the purchase of cacao, which will be used for future cocoa harvesting and export campaigns.
Firm Advises EBI in Financing for Ivorian Cocoa Exporter
Jan. 31, 2025 – Hughes Hubbard advised EBI, a French subsidiary of pan-African banking conglomerate Ecobank, in the negotiation of a commodity financing facility for cocoa producer Kineden Commodities. The firm helped establish local collateral security agreements subject to the OHADA (Organization for the Harmonization...
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