Mounir Letayf
Partner
Mounir focuses on cross-border and domestic financing matters including acquisition finance, real estate finance, project finance, debt restructuring and structured finance.
Mounir leads the Paris office banking and finance practice.
He has extensive experience in acquisition finance covering a large spectrum of financing products (senior, second lien, mezzanine, unirate/unitranche, PIK, TLB, high-yield, SSRCF).
Additional core areas of practice are real estate finance, project finance, debt restructuring and structured finance (factoring and securitization).
Mounir advises lenders (banks, private debt funds and alternative debt providers) as well as sponsors and borrowers (investment funds and listed and non-listed companies) on domestic and cross-border transactions.
Prior to joining the Firm, Mounir was a partner at the Paris office of a leading US international firm. He is fluent in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.
Prior to his recent move to Winston, Mounir was ranked in The Legal 500 France 2019-2020 in Private Equity and features in the latest edition of The Best Lawyers in France 2020. Mounir was also recognized as “Excellent” in the Private Equity - Acquisition Financing France 2019 Leaders League. Mounir was ranked in IFLR1000 as "Highly Regarded" in Banking, Project Finance, and Private Equity in 2020.
- Legal 500 EMEA
- Best Lawyers in France
- IFLR1000 - Highly Regarded
Publications
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« L’opération sponsorless, une flexibilité intéressante pour le dirigeant » NextStep Magazine, November 2024
- “Dette privée unitranche: une alternative au prêt bancaire propice au financement de la croissance externe” Les Echos, May 2018
- “La dette unitranche, nouveau produit de financement d’acquisition” Décideurs Magazine, March 2012
Very sharp technically and perfectly up-to-date on financial rationales. Ultra-responsive.
The Legal 500 EMEA
Credentials
Education
Mounir received his law degree from the University of Aix Marseille.
Admissions
- Paris, France
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