PARIS – LAWFUEL – Legal News, Legal Jobs Network – Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP announced today that Hervé Kensicher, a leading global finance and real estate attorney, has joined Orrick as a partner in the firm’s Global Real Estate practice in Paris. Kensicher joins Orrick from Freshfields, where he was a partner.
“Real estate investment activity in Europe continues to be robust, and Orrick has been continually increasing the size and quality of its real estate groups in Paris and London, ” said William Murray, chair of Orrick’s real estate practice. “Hervé’s addition to the group will bring considerable depth of experience to the practice, and puts the firm in a better position than ever to handle major transactions for clients.”
Kensicher specializes in French domestic and cross-border commercial real estate finance and securitization. He has a wide range of experience in finance and banking, including project finance, public utilities finance and debt restructuring. Stéphane Salou said: “Hervé brings a great deal of real estate finance experience to the Paris office and the firm generally. His broad background and sophisticated view of the real estate markets in Europe are highly respected.”
Kensicher is actively involved in real estate finance work on the borrower side for various property owners and investors and on the lender side for major financial institutions, as well as pan-European CMBS transactions and the formation and representation of REITs and private equity funds. He also represents on financing matters several investment firms that are market leaders in real estate investments, including DB/RREEF, to which Orrick served as counsel in a property acquisition believed to be Silicon Valley’s largest commercial real estate transaction ever, and Hines.
“I am impressed by Orrick’s strong pan-European practice, in which Paris plays an important role,” said Kensicher. “In addition, I am looking forward to contributing to a firm that has a strong platform in finance and real estate and a sincere dedication to its clients and which in Paris covers the entire spectrum of real estate transactional and litigation matters.”
Kensicher, who has been a partner since 1991, has extensive international experience, with over six years spent in Freshfields’s London, New York and Moscow offices, the latter of which he founded and managed from 1992 to 1994. Kensicher received his baccalaureate from the French Military Academy in Aix-en-Provence in 1978, a Certificate in Public Management from the University of Indiana School of Public and Environmental Affairs in 1982, and a masters degree in private international law from the Law School of Paris XI University at Sceaux in 1983.
About Orrick’s Real Estate Practice
Orrick’s real estate practice is internationally recognized for its expertise, experience, responsiveness and resources in handling transactions of any magnitude or complexity around the world. It advises clients on all phases of real estate investment, development, financing and operations and is preeminent in the area of real estate investments. Orrick is nationally recognized in the United States as a leader in mortgage-backed securitizations and other real estate structured finance transactions. The firm has extensive experience representing global investors and lending institutions making investments and loans in the United States, as well as U.S.-based companies investing abroad. Orrick’s real estate lawyers in Paris and Milan advise clients on major transactions in France, Italy and throughout Europe. In Tokyo, Orrick has developed a leading real estate practice among law firms.
About Orrick’s Paris Office
Effective January 1, 2006, Orrick merged with Rambaud Martel, one of Paris’s preeminent law firms, creating an unparalleled source for corporate legal counsel in France. The recognized leadership of the two firms in their complementary practices provides an exceptionally broad platform in mergers and acquisitions and finance, general corporate matters and litigation in France and around the world. Orrick’s Paris office is highly respected in the French and international markets for work on major cross-border and domestic transactions involving mergers and acquisitions, structured finance, leasing, asset finance, corporate, tax and employment. In addition, lawyers in the Paris office are well-versed in a range of litigation and dispute resolution matters as well as international arbitration. Orrick provides clients with advice under French, English and U.S. law. When needed, Orrick’s Paris lawyers can call on the substantial resources of the firm’s other European, U.S. and Asian offices to provide clients with the expertise and support for their transactional and litigations matters worldwide.
About Orrick
Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP is an international law firm with more than 900 lawyers in North America, Europe and Asia. The firm focuses on litigation, complex and novel finance and innovative corporate transactions. Orrick clients include Fortune 100 companies, major industrial and financial corporations, commercial and investment banks, high-growth companies, governmental entities, start-ups and individuals. The firm’s 18 offices are located in New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Silicon Valley, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Orange County, Pacific Northwest, Beijing, Hong Kong, London, Milan, Moscow, Paris, Rome, Shanghai, Taipei and Tokyo.
