Mergers and Acquisitions / Private Equity

Our team provides its counsel and assists clients ensuring the success of their M&A and private equity operations in France and abroad at all stages of their development such as:

1. LBO, MBI, MBO, OBO
2. Sale or purchase of companies or branches of activities
3. Sale or purchase of assets, of business and commercial or industrial sites
4. Restructuring
5. Group reorganization
6. Foreign investments in France
7. Setting-up of French companies abroad and foreign companies in France
8. Cross border joint ventures, incorporating common subsidiaries
9. Issuance of complex securities (BSA, BSPCE, free shares, preferred shares…) and implementation of management packages

We advise and accompany clients from their initial financial, tax and legal structuring through the negotiation and execution of the legal documentation:

1. Non-disclosure agreement and letter of intention
2. Due diligence / legal, fiscal and employment audit
3. Preparatory acts and operations
4. Drafting of share purchase agreement and associated agreements
5. Shareholders agreement

Depending on the size and complexity of operations, our team works transversally with the assistance of the other practice groups of the firm (tax law, labour law, competition law…)