Alfred W. Fink

Alfred Fink is a partner in the Corporate Group in Paris. Mr. Fink has considerable experience in advising clients on real estate (structured finance, securitisation, leasing), and corporate (M&A, restructuring and insolvency, international tax) matters.

A qualified German lawyer, Mr. Fink’s clients consist primarily of German-speaking companies – investment banks, mortgage banks, investment trusts – active in both the French and German markets, as well as of foreign investors in France.

He lectures in the post-graduates programs at the University of Paris I-Sorbonne and at the Robert-Schuman University in Strasbourg.

Prior to joining Orrick, Mr. Fink was partner at the tax firm Haarmann Hemmelrath’s Paris office (2001-2004). He had previously worked at Landwell & Associés (1996-2001) where he was partner in charge of the ‘German desk,’ and Coopers & Lybrand where he was international tax director in the European office in Brussels and London.

Some of his recent highlight transactions include:

Corporate Restructuring

• Acquisition of two insolvent companies out of insolvency proceedings for the same investor (2006 and 2007).
• Cross-border merger between a French affiliated company (leasing company) and its German head office (credit institution) in order to transform the affiliated company into a French branch – Dissolution of the company without liquidation (Article 1855-4 Code Civil) – under the French regime de faveur.
• Cross-border re-organisation of a international group of companies in order to provide a convenient corporate structure for the entry of a private equity fund in the company’s capital (creation of business lines).

Real Estate

• Acquisition of a French portfolio of four office buildings for €89 Millon (2007).
• Vendor due diligence and creation of a virtual dataroom for a building place Vendôme in Paris (2006).
• Vendor due diligence and creation of a virtual dataroom for a building in Lyon (2006).
• Structuring of a close-ended German investment fund (2006).
• Creation and financing of a wind farm for a German close-ended investment fund.
• Sale of French mortgage loans portfolio from a German credit institution to a French FCC (€500 Million).
• Refinancing of a French property portfolio (€150 Million).

Admitted in

• Paris
• Germany

Memberships

• Deutsch-Französische Juristenvereinigung (association de juristes franco-allemande) depuis 1990
• International Bar Association depuis 1994
• Urban Land Institute
• AFIRE

Multimedia

Publications

• "FORUM SHOPPING et la concurrence entre les procédures collectives en Europe," Journal des Sociétés, September 2009, co-authored with Pierre Storck
• "Immobilieninvestitionen in Frankreich" ("Real Estate Investment in France"), Rechtshandbuch der Immobilieninvestitionen, C.H. Beck Verlag (in print)
• "La fiducie en droit français: Quel impact dans le domaine immobilier?," Business Immo, 2007
• "Le secret bancaire en Allemagne," Gazette du Palais, 2005
• "Fusions transfrontalières: quels avantages tirer de la société européenne?," L'année fiscale, 2004, pp. 95-105
• “Tolley’s International leasing,” Tolley Publishing Company Limited, 2000
• “Leasing in Frankreich,” Leasing-Handbuch für die betriebliche Praxis, 2000
• “Becksches’ Leasing Handbuch,” chapters 53-55, C.H.Beck Verlag, 1998
• “Leasing in the European Union,” Coopers & Lybrand, 1997
• “A Pratical Guide to Leasing,” McGraw-Hill Book Company Europe, 1994