Stéphane Joly

Admitted to the Paris Bar, Stéphane Joly is an associate in the Banking & Finance team of the Paris office.

Stéphane assists investors, borrowers and lenders on international asset and project finance transactions. He has experience in advising on structured finance and real estate finance matters.

Prior to joining Mayer Brown, Stéphane trained with other international law firms in Paris, and has worked in the power, infrastructure and natural resources sectors in Europe and Africa.

In addition to his native French, Stéphane is fluent in English.

• Advising Hines, on behalf of the HEPP fund (Hines European Properties Partners), on the financing of its acquisition of the Onyx portfolio, comprising five logistics located in France totalling 130,000 sqm.

• Advising Hines on the €169m financing by ING Bank of the €287m sale and leaseback acquisition by the HEVF 2 fund (Hines European Value Fund 2) of the “Optimus” portfolio of 11 logistics platforms totalling 350,000-sqm, sold and taken on lease by Auchan (July 2021).

• Advising Hines France for the account of the HECF fund (Hines European Core Fund) on the financing, by means of an 8-year €50.6m credit facility arranged by BNP Paribas, of the forward acquisition from Kaufman & Broad of a portfolio of 8 residential properties (totalling nearly 30,000-sqm and 500 apartments) to be developed in various metropolitan locations in France and to be acquired and delivered over a period of 3 years.
• Advising Hines France on the extension of the maturity and the modification of the terms of a €134.6m mortgage loan granted by Deutsche Pfandbriefbank AG for the financing of the acquisition of the “Workstation” office property located in Courbevoie.

• Université Paris II Panthéon-Assas, Master 1 Comparative Law (French/English)
• University of Oxford, Diploma in Legal Studies

• Paris

• English
• French