Galina Petrova is a business lawyer registered with the Paris Bar Association. Specializing in finance and mergers and acquisitions, she brings her in-depth expertise to a wide range of financing operations, including corporate financing and leveraged acquisition financing. She assists French and international clients, such as banking institutions, investment funds, and companies.

Thanks to her nuanced understanding of specific financing needs, she supports her clients in syndicated and structured financing operations. In this capacity, she drafts financing documents (credit agreements and subordination agreements) and security documents (notably pledges of financial securities accounts, pledges of equity interests, pledges of business assets, and pledges of receivables). She stands out for her ability to anticipate and manage the complex challenges of these transactions.

Galina Petrova has also developed solid experience in the area of mergers and acquisitions, advising and assisting clients in company consolidation operations, evolution, disposal, or restructuring of their shareholding. With her strategic approach, she employs her expertise during the negotiation and drafting of share transfer agreements, shareholders' agreements, asset and liability guarantees, and their implications in corporate law (notably in the context of capital increases or decreases, mergers, partial asset contributions, or universal transfers of assets).

With experience at the New York firm Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP, followed by a period at the prestigious English firm Simmons & Simmons LLP, Galina Petrova has honed a solid and technical expertise, giving her the ability to offer tailored and innovative solutions to ensure the success and sustainability of her clients' projects.

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Training

• Master in Financial Law – Paris-Saclay University, with a specialization in Finance from ESCP Paris
• Master in Business Law - Sorbonne University Paris I
• Master in Applied Economics - Sorbonne University Paris I

Bar Admission

• Paris (France)

Languages

Practices fluently in French, English, and Bulgarian