Cédric Ledegen

Cédric Ledegen

Associate

Email

cedric.ledegen@aoshearman.com

Phone

+3232877401

Offices

Antwerp

V-CARD
Cédric has experience across the financing spectrum, specializing in leveraged and acquisition finance, and also covering project finance, real estate finance and general corporate lending (both secured and unsecured).
In this context, he has been working mostly with private equity investors, financial institutions, domestic and multinational enterprises and private debt funds.

Experience

Representative matters

  • Various private equity sponsors on their event-driven financings, including unitranches and commercial bank deals.
  • Aukera BV on a EUR450,000,000 notes issuance facility with EIG.
  • Deceuninck on the refinancing of its revolving credit facility.
  • The lenders on Kinepolis Group's refinancing of its EUR160 million syndicated revolving credit facility.
  • KBC Bank NV on the financing of several PPP projects for the construction of schools in Flanders.

Pro bono

  • Advising SOS Children's Villages on various pro bono matters.

Published Work

  • LEDEGEN, C. and DRIJBER M. (2022), “How do capital requirements and supervision impact the profitability of investment banks in the EU? An empirical analysis.”, Bank- en Financiewezen, Vol. 2.
  • LEDEGEN, C. and DRIJBER M. (2022), “Do EU authorisation requirements adequately and proportionally address the nature and risks of investment banks?”, Bank- en Financieel Recht, Vol. 4.

Qualifications

Admissions

Advocaat-stagiair, Antwerp, Belgium, 2023

Academic

Erasmus Exchange, Law, Economics and Management, Université de Paris (Paris-Descartes), 2022

MSc, Economics, Law and Business (option: Finance and Financial Law), magna cum laude, University of Leuven, 2022

LLM, Laws (Major: Economic Law; Minor: Civil Law), magna cum laude, University of Leuven, 2023


Disclaimer
A&O Shearman was formed on May 1, 2024 by the combination of Shearman & Sterling LLP and Allen & Overy LLP and their respective affiliates (the legacy firms). Any matters referred to above may include matters undertaken by one or more of the legacy firms rather than A&O Shearman.