Manaf Triqui

Partner

Paris

Manaf Triqui joins the Banking & Finance group in Paris as partner. He focuses on private debt and debt capital markets transactions.

Manaf advises investors (debt funds, insurance companies, financial institutions, etc.), arrangers and issuers (corporates, fintechs and start-ups), in connection with debt transactions such as Euro Private Placements (Euro PP), Eurobonds, sustainability and sustainability-linked bonds, corporate hybrids, establishment and update of EMTN programs, French commercial paper and liability management transactions.

Manaf contributed to the Euro PP (Euro Private Placement) working group composed of several professional organizations under the leadership of Banque de France, the French Treasury and the Paris IDF Chamber of Commerce and Industry, designed to facilitate financing for intermediate-size enterprises (ISE) and SMEs to define a more harmonized legal framework for Euro PP transactions.

Prior to joining Orrick, Manaf worked for several years at leading international law firms in Paris. At his previous firm, he was the head of its Paris Debt Capital Markets practice.

  • Manaf’s experience includes:

    • Advising the investors in connection with a 22,500,000 € senior secured sustainability-linked EuroPP bond by OTIUM CAPITAL;*
    • Advising the investors in connection with a 140,000,000 € senior secured sustainability-linked bond (pari passu with a loan financing) by Lumibird;*
    • Advising the investors in connection with a 152,000,000 € senior secured sustainability-linked bond (pari passu with a loan financing) by Magellan;*
    • Advising the investors in the connection with the first sustainability-linked Euro PP bond in France, for a global amount of 140,000,000 € by Groupe Bertrand;*
    • Advising the investors and the placement agent in connection with a bond issuance by Bertrand Corp for a global aggregate amount of 100,000,000 € listed on Euronext Access;*
    • Advising the investors in connection with a 40,000,000 € senior secured sustainability-linked bond (pari passu with a loan financing) by Substipharm;*
    • Advising the investors in connection with several senior secured bond issuances listed on European ETFs for an aggregate amount of 300,000,000 €, by HLD Europe;*
    • Advising the investors in connection with a 30,000,000 € senior secured sustainability-linked EuroPP bond by Jacques Bogart SA;*
    • Advising ARIA (Fintech) in connection with the first loss financing secured by a French security trust (fiducie-sûreté) on the French fintech market for a global amount of 50,000,000 €;*
    • Advising Karmen (Fintech) in connection with its 20,000,000€ senior secured borrowing base bond financing;*
    • Advising DEFACTO (Fintech) in connection with its 25,000,000 € senior secured borrowing base bond financing.*

    *Experience prior to joining Orrick

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