
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS – PRIVATE EQUITY
WHAT WE DO:
- All types of M&A transactions: transfers, acquisitions, joint-ventures, disposals (such as carve-outs)
- All types of private equity transactions: venture capital, growth capital and leverage buy outs (LBO, LMBO, LMBI, OBO, BIMBO)
- All types of equity financing and group restructuring transactions
- Turnaround transactions (reorganization, structuring and/or debt renegotiation within the framework of any amicable settlement procedure (mandate ad hoc, conciliation) or creditor protection procedure) with, where appropriate, the joint intervention of the “Banking and Finance” team
WHAT WE DON’T DO... OR DON’T DO ALONE:
- Transactions which would require the setting up of a Chinese wall within our teams. We prefer not to use such constructions relying instead on a strict position in terms of conflict of interest as soon as we are consulted on an issue
- Issues which are peripheral to M&A and private equity transactions which require specific expertise.
HOW:
- Thanks to a team of 8 partners* and around twenty associates, with a French and Anglo-Saxon cultural and training background
- In compliance with our values, specifically pragmatism with particular emphasis on technical expertise
- With the support of the other departments of the firm (tax, employment, public law…) to procure a specific response to a global issue
OUR CLIENTS:
- Both French and foreign
- Listed or unlisted companies, in very varied business sectors (sometimes even unsuspected)
- Financial investors (investment funds, French or foreign, which acquire majority or minority stakes) and managers
FINAL WORD:
Our team has counseled for more than thirty years, on average it is the counsel for more than thirty transactions per annum and it has maintained a major standing on its market
THREE REPRESENTATIVE TRANSACTIONS:
- Acquisition by Fung Brands of Sonia Rykiel
- Group Bertrand LBO
- Acquisition of Didier Guerin by the Galeries Lafayette Group
* including 1 junior partner
