
Corporate Finance
Leveraged Finance
Acquisition Finance
Debt Restructuring
General Lending
Syndicated Loans
Structured Finance
Marie Roche is a Partner at Freshfields in Paris, specializing in Global Transactions. With over ten years of experience, she focuses on corporate finance, leveraged and acquisition finance, and debt restructuring. Marie has developed expertise in general lending, syndicated loans, and structured finance transactions, advising financial institutions, sponsors, and multinational corporates. She is a key member of the team serving major financial institution clients. Marie holds an LLM in General Studies from Georgetown University and a Master in European Business Law from the University of Lyon III. She is fluent in both French and English.
Representative Matters Marie's representative experience includes advising:

- Charterhouse Capital Partners acquired the target/assets from CAPZA in a private equity transaction. - Deal value was 4100000000 Sector: Healthcare; Location: France. - On the acquirer side, legal representation details are not available, but involved lawyers include Yann Gozal, Aia Eid, Marie Roche, Thomas Jeannin.
Dec 03 2025
4B
Private Equity

Partner
2023 – Unknown
Counsel
2020 – 2023
Senior Associate
2017 – 2020
Senior Associate
2017 – 2017
Avocat à la Cour

- Evotec SE sold the stake/assets to Sandoz AG as part of an acquisition. Date of the transaction is not available. - Deal value was 350000000 (source: Extracted) Sector: Life Sciences; Location: France. - On the seller side, legal advice was provided by a team including Christoph H. Seibt, Maximilian Stowahse, Simon Schulte-Lubberding, Aljosha Barath, Vincent Daniel-Mayeur, Marie Roche, Alexander Schwahn, Gwen Senlanne, Philipp Roos, Sarah Rohmann, Bjorn Junior, Jules Troubat, Alexander Pospisil, Juliane Ziebarth, Tanguy Bardet, Jil Rollmann, Samvel Der Arsenian, Nicolas Solter, Kimberly Wang, Jan Kothe, Edouard Laperriere, Christina Hinterschweiger, Yvonne Wolski, Zahar Quasim, Chabha Agrea, Leon Liekefett, Martin Leclerc Bialluch, Alexandra Harf, Melanie Jacobi, Marwan Hammache, Lea Hirschi, Alexander Brauer, Pascal Schonemann, Inna Pustal.
Nov 05 2025
350M
M&A
1 min
2016 – 2017
Avocat - Senior Associate
2016 – 2016
Avocat (Finance)
2011 – 2015
Secondment (lawyer) - Corporate Debt Platform
2015 – 2015

Associate (Corporate and Finance)
2008 – 2011