Sena Agbayissah concentrates his practice on all aspects of banking and finance law, including financing, asset management, capital markets and regulatory. In addition, his practice particularly focuses on carbon markets as well as financing for projects in Africa.
His experience includes:
Financing: Bilateral or syndicated corporate financing, asset financing (senior acquisition or mezzanine, real estate, aircraft, ships, industrial equipment), international trade financing, leverage tax financing, export financing;
Asset Management: setting up and restructuring of investment funds and UCITs, marketing of foreign funds in France;
Capital Markets: legal and tax structuring of structured financial products, drafting and negotiating of derivatives agreements (FBF, ISDA, among others), securitization, convertible securities, drafting of structured debt instruments issuance program;
Regulatory: setting up and licensing of credit institutions and investment firms and following up with regulatory authorities such as the Financial Markets Authority (“AMF”), and the Prudential Supervisory Authority (“ACP”), bank operations and investment services, European passport procedure, assisting financial institutions in relation to the supervision and penalty procedures carried out by the AMF, drafting of anti-money laundering procedures, restructuring;
PPP: His experience includes the drafting of contractual documents relating to project financing, including, in particular, public-private partnerships (partnerships, public service concessions, administrative long term lease (BEA), hospital leases (BEH), leases with option to buy (AOT-LOA), and structuring of specialized funds such as the FIDEPPP). In this regard, his expertise includes the negotiation and drafting of the various project contracts, financing and refinancing contracts, the securities relating thereto and delegation and assignment agreements as well as the documentation relating to equity investment;
Arbitration: International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), International Chamber of Commerce (ICC) arbitration, Common Court of Justice and Arbitration (CCJA) OHADA, ad hoc arbitration; Sena Agbayissah acts in arbitration matters as both counsel and arbitrator. He is registered on the International Chamber of Commerce’s list of arbitrators, and the ICSID’s list of conciliators and arbitrators;
Carbon markets: setting and structuring of markets products, drafting of market rules, drafting and negotiating of market agreements;
Member of the board of directors, European Association for Banking and Financial Law (AEDBF)
Member of the PRADA Commission and President of the CO2 Commission of Paris Europlace regarding the amendment of the MIF Directive relating to the qualification of quotas as financial instruments
Previous Experience
Lecturer, Rennes University for Diplôme de Juriste Conseil d'Entreprise (DJCE)
Highlighted Publications
“Loi Sapin II, Programme de conformité et code de conduite - Application en matière bancaire et financière”, Banque et Droit, December 2017
Co-author “Banquier dispensateur de crédit, emprunteurs non avertis et devoir de conseil”, Mélanges en l’honneur de Jean-Jacques Daigre, November 2017
“Les ouvertures de crédit à l’épreuve de l’application dans le temps de la réforme du Code civil”, Revue de Droit Bancaire et Financier, November-December 2016, No. 35
“Les contrats financiers dans l’espace OHADA: une réforme bien inachevée,” Revue de Droit Bancaire et Financier, No. 3, May 2016
“La garantie des contrats financiers par des sûretés portant sur les matières premières agricoles”, Revue de Droit Bancaire et Financier, January-February 2014
“Eléments critiques de droit des sûretés”, les Mélanges AEDBF, Tome VI, article co-written with Professor Didier R. Martin
“Les matières premières agricoles à l’épreuve du droit des sûretés, Droit & Economie
“Les quotas d’émission de gaz à effet de serre - un camaïeu juridique”, Revue de Droit Bancaire et Financier, May-June 2012
Co-author, “Du contrat de Liquidité”, Les Mélanges de l’AEDBF, tome IV, Banque Editeur, 2004
“Les Aspects Juridiques des Produits Dérivés Négociés Sur les Marchés de Gré à Gré”, Les Mélanges de l'AEDBF France, tome II, Banque Editeur, 1999
“Les Caps, Floors et Collars à l'épreuve d'une qualification en opérations d'assurance”, Revue de Droit Bancaire et Financier, n°58, November-December 1996
“Les transferts de Propriété à Fin de Garantie Sur les Marchés Réglementés”, Article 49 de la loi du 2 juillet 1996, JCPE, 1996
“Les Swaps : Quelques Difficultés d'Application des Contrats-types ISDA”, Option Finance, n° 319, 29 August 1994
“La Centralisation de Trésorerie dans les Groupes de Sociétés," Marchés et Techniques Financières, n°83, September 1996
“Les Conditions Générales AFB sont des Usages Professionnels”, Les Echos, June 1994
Co-author, “Le Statut de l'Élu Local Dirigeant d'Entreprise ou d'Association”
Co-author, “Le Régime Juridique des Prises de Participations des Sociétés d'Economie Mixte Locale,” JCPE 1994
Co-author, “Les Collectivités Territoriales Peuvent-elles etre actionnaires à part entière des SEML?” Petites Affiches, July 1994
