Paul Lombard National Partner MAIN OFFICE: Paris Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP 21-23 rue de la Ville l'Evêque 75008 Paris, France T +33 1 53 43 4500 F +33 1 40 06 9606

Paul E. Lombard is a national partner in the Corporate and Financial Services Department of Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in Paris, specializing in debt and acquisition finance.

Mr. Lombard focuses on acquisition leverage finance and debt restructuring, advising sponsors, borrowers and arrangers (senior and mezzanine). He is also regularly involved in matters in the syndicated loan market and the real estate financing market.

Mr. Lombard is fluent in English and French.

Mr. Lombard’s significant matters in acquisition leverage finance and debt restructuring include advising:

• Yoplait, together with General Mills Inc and Sodiaal, in connection to a €300m refinancing (December 2011)
  
  
• IK in connection to a senior credit agreement and a mezzanine agreement made available for the acquisition of the Savena Group (July 2011) as well as with the supplemental agreements thereof for the acquisition of the Sfinc Group by the Savena Group (December 2011)
  
  
• Eurofideme in connection to a bond financing made available to Vol-V to make photovoltaic acquisition and project development (December 2011)
  
  
• Gilde Buy Out Partners in connection to the restructuring of the Novasep bonds (December 2011)
  
  
• Ipsos and its reference shareholder, LT Participations, on all debt financing aspects of its €595 million acquisition of the market research unit (Synovate) of Aegis group plc (October 2011)
  
  
• Compagnie Daher SA in connection to a €120m refinancing (July 2011)
  
  
• Axa Mezzanine in connection to mezzanine bond financing made available to Abénex for the acquisition of the Vulcanic Group
  
  
• Apax Partners in connection to a senior credit agreement and a mezzanine agreement made available for the acquisition of the Amplitude group (June 2011)
  
  
• Yoplait in the financing structure that led to its acquisition of Liberté (December 2010) as well as in the waiver process in connection with the acquisition of a stake in its share capital by General Mills Inc (July 2011)
  
  
• Groupe Partouche in connection with the restructuring of its bank debt and the investment of Butler Capital Partners in its share capital (January 2011)
  
  
• CMA-CGM in connection with the restructuring of its bank debt (March 2011)
  
  
• Calyon, as agent and arranger, and the other arrangers in connection to a refinancing provided for Converteam, controlled by Barclays PE and LBO France (June 2010)
  
  
• Zodiac Marine and Pool, as well as Carlyle, in connection to a €1.1 billon senior credit agreement and a €150 million mezzanine d agreement made available for the acquisition of the Zodiac Marine and Pool group, the transfer of ING's participation to Carlyle (December 2009), and the debt restructuring of the group (May 2010)
  
  
• MezzVest and SVP in forming the Mezzanine Steering Committee in the debt restructuring of Deutsch Connector (sponsor: Wendel) (April 2010)
  
  
• Apax Partners in connection with the financing of Marken (January 2010)
  
  
• Ypso France (Numéricable), as well as Carlyle, Cinven and Altice, in connection to a waiver and amendment to a €3.225 billon senior credit agreement (December 2009)
  
  
• EuroMezzanine in connection to senior and junior mezzanine bonds (€45 million each) issued in the context of the acquisition by Groupe TFN of VPNM and Eurogem (July 2009)
  
  
• Calyon as arranger in connection to a refinancing for Compagnie de Saint Gobain (July 2009)
  
  
• The arrangers in connection to a refinancing for Yoplait (controlled by PAI partners and Sodial) in the context of the acquisition of Yoplait Dairy Crest (March 2009)
  
  
• PAI partners and Financière Daunou 9 in connection to a €2.07 billon senior credit agreement established for the acquisition of Monier; advised Monier in connection to its subsequent debt restructuring
  
  
• PAI partners in connection to a recapitalization and an amendment of the debt documentation of Perstorp (September 2008)
  
  
• PAI partners in connection to the financing established for the acquisition of a minority stake in Atos (January 2008)
  
  
• Calyon as arranger in connection to the financing provided to Compagnie de Saint Gobain for the acquisition of Maxit (October 2007)
  
  
• Bank of Ireland as arranger in connection to a recapitalization of the financing for CEP (controlled by PAI partners) (September 2007)
  
  
• The arrangers in connection to the financing provided to Compagnie des Alpes for the acquisition of Val d’Isère and other ski resorts (May 2007)
  
  
• PAI partners in connection to the financing established for the acquisition of SPIE (2006)

Mr. Lombard’s significant matters in real estate financing include advising:

• WestImmo and PBB in connection to the €170 million refinancing of an asset portfolio for EPL (a fund managed by BNP Paribas Real Estate Investment) (December 2009)
  
  
• WestImmo, Helaba and PostBank in connection to the €140 million financing of the acquisition of 3 Quartiers by Macquarie (April 2009)
  
  
• SITQ (Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec) in connection to the €400 million refinancing of T1 and B tower in la Défense (December 2008)
  
  
• Eurohypo as arranger in connection to a €73 million financing of the acquisition and development of a pan European logistics programme (April 2007)

Mr. Lombard’s recent publications include:

• "Le marché du financement : vers une réouverture durable ou un effet de ciseau ?" (The financing market, towards a reopening or a scissor effect?) in Magazine des Affaires, January - February 2011
  
  
• "La Loi de sauvegarde: une chance pour l'entreprise, un risque pour les créanciers" (Safeguard: a corporate opportunity, a threat for the creditors) in Revue Banque January 2010, co-authored with Julien Roux
  
  
• "Réforme de la sauvegarde: le nouveau dispositif sera-t-il plus efficace?" (Implementation of Safeguard: will the revised proceeding work better?) in JCPE Edition Entreprises et Affaires, N°15, 9 April 2009, co- authored with Sabah Boughiba