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Hortense Atthenont-Duret

T: +33 1 44 15 80 73 M: +33 6 07 55 72 19 Email Hortense | vCard Office: Paris

Hortense Atthenont-Duret Managing associate

Contact details

Hortense Atthenont-Duret

Hortense Atthenont-Duret
Managing associate

T: +33 1 44 15 80 73 M: +33 6 07 55 72 19 Email Hortense | vCard Office: Paris

Hortense is a managing associate in the Paris office with a deep experience in banking and finance sector, focusing on asset finance, export finance and transportation industry.
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Hortense acts predominantly in the field of asset finance (ships and aircraft), tax leasing and export credits, and has also a significant experience in corporate and acquisition finance, securitisation and commodities financing.

She advises main French and foreign financial institutions, as well as ship companies, lessors, ECAs, and more generally corporates in the transportation sector.

Before joining Stephenson Harwood, Hortense worked in renowned law firms in Paris.

Hortense graduated from ESSEC business school and holds a master's degree in French Business and tax law from the University of Paris Panthéon-Assas (Paris II).

  • Shipping
  • Aviation finance
  • Project finance
  • Ship and offshore finance
  • Finance

French banks

Advised the French banks on the financing of a new cruise vessel by way of French tax lease, benefiting from SACE support.

French banks

Advised the French banks on the financing of four container carrier vessels by way of French tax lease, benefiting from support from Kexim.

French banks

Advised the banks on two corporate financings for a main French shipping corporate backed by securities on vessels.

More: Shipping

International banks

Advised international banks on the restructuring of a French aircraft financing for a main French airline company.

International banks

Advised a syndicate of French and international banks on the restructuring of a financing of 5 Canadair regional jet aircraft, backed by Canadian ECAs.

Airline

Advised a French airline on various French and English law aircraft leasings.

More: Aviation finance

International bank

Advised an international bank on the implementation of a BPI backed export financing and commercial-tied financing for the construction of hospitals in Africa.

French bank

Advised a French bank on a Finnverra backed 400,000,000 export financing for a Brazilian telecommunication operator.

French bank

Advised a French bank on a SACE backed export financing for a Belarus entity.

French bank

Advised a French bank on a SACE backed export financing for a Georgian entity.

More: Project finance

French banks

Advised the French banks on the financing of a new cruise vessel by way of French tax lease, benefiting from SACE support.

French banks

Advised the French banks on the financing of four container carrier vessels by way of French tax lease, benefiting from support from Kexim.

French banks

Advised the banks on two corporate financings for a main French shipping corporate backed by securities on vessels.

More: Ship and offshore finance

French corporate

Advised a main French corporate on a 400,000,000 Euros financing for the acquisition of a target in the US.

French corporate

Advised a French family-office held company on various financings for acquisitions in Spain and in Germany.

French new tech corporate

Advised a French corporate on various refinancings (by way of credit facilities and bonds).

French factors and companies

Advised French factors and companies on a number of pan-European factoring transactions.

More: Finance

  • Banks and banking

International bank

Advised an international bank on the implementation of a BPI backed export financing and commercial-tied financing for the construction of hospitals in Africa.

French bank

Advised a French bank on a Finnverra backed 400,000,000 export financing for a Brazilian telecommunication operator.

French factors and companies

Advised French factors and companies on a number of pan-European factoring transactions.

French banks

Advised French arrangers on various pan-European securitisation transactions. 

More: Banks and banking

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