Paris

Recent Paris office M&A experience includes representations of: 

• Adecco on its acquisition of 60% of the share capital of Akka Technologies
• Alcatel-Lucent on all aspects under French and U.S. law of its €15.6 billion combination with Nokia
• Altran on its $2.0 billion acquisition of Aricent
• Amgen on its $13.4 billion acquisition of certain assets and liabilities associated with the rights to OTEZLA from Celgene Corporation

• BNP Paribas on its sale of Bank of the West, its U.S. retail and commercial banking business, to BMO Financial Group for a base price of $16.3 billion in cash
• Covivio on its €1.2 billion voluntary public takeover offer for all shares in Godewind Immobilien
• EDF on its €3 billion acquisition of Dalkia; on its €1.4 billion take of EDF Energies Nouvelles; on its acquisition of in EDF Luminus; and on its agreement to sell its 25.4% stake in Alpiq to EBM and EOS Holding for CHF 489 million
• Eurazeo on its 4.8% sale of Moncler’s share capital for a total consideration of €445 million by its subsidiary ECIP M by way of an accelerated book building to institutional investors
• Goldman Sachs’ Asset Management Division, in consortium with PGGM, ATP, GIC and the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority, on its sale of LeasePlan to ALD for a total consideration of €4.9 billion
• Kering on the sale of its sports and lifestyle brand Volcom to Authentic Brands Group
• Pershing Square, a special purpose acquisition company, on its $4 billion acquisition of Universal Music Group shares from Vivendi
• Rhône Capital on its $1.2 billion acquisition of 100% of the share capital of Zodiac Pool Holding from a fund affiliated with the Carlyle Group
• Stellantis, formerly Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, on its $60 billion 50/50 merger with Peugeot
• Suez on Veolia’s acquisition of Suez shares representing 29.9% of the capital of Suez from Engie and the subsequent agreement with a consortium of investors to create a new Suez resulting from the divestment of around €7.0 billion of assets
• Syntel on its $3.57 billion cash acquisition by Atos
• Taiwan Cement Corporation on its €132 million acquisition of 60.48% stake in Engie Eps
• Tiffany & Co on its $16 billion acquisition by LVMH Moët Hennessy – Louis Vuitton
• Goldman Sachs and Deutsche Bank as financial advisors to Unibail-rodamco on its €21.7 billion acquisition of Westfield Corporation

Recent Paris office capital markets experience includes the following matters:

• Alcatel-Lucent on several Rule 144A/Reg S high-yield bond offerings, Rule 144A/Reg S senior notes offerings including a €1 billion OCEANE convertible bond offering and €1 billion capital raising, counsel to issuer
• Altran on its €750 million rights issue, which formed part of its $2.0 billion acquisition financing of Aricent, counsel to issuer
• AXA as regular adviser on Rule 144A/Reg S debt offerings, counsel to issuer
• Citigroup Global Markets, J.P. Morgan Securities and Wells Fargo Securities on AXA Equitable Holdings’s Rule 144A/Reg S offering of $3.8 billion aggregate principal amount of senior notes, counsel to initial purchasers
• Council of Europe Development Bank on multiple SEC-registered debt offerings, counsel to issuer
• EDF on its €2.4 billion inaugural convertible green bond; on its multiple Rule 144A/Reg S bond offerings, counsel to issuer; and on its €4 billion capital increase, counsel to underwriters
• Elis on its $967 million initial public offering; on its $317 million common stock offering; on its €400 million convertible bonds offering; and on its €800 million high-yield senior notes offering, pursuant to Rule 144A/ Reg S, counsel to issuer
• Eurazeo on the sale of its 4.20% stake in Accor for a total consideration of €552 million; on its sale of ordinary shares of Europcar Group for net proceeds of €179 million; and on multiple transaction in connection with the sale of its stake in Moncler shares amounting to an aggregate of 22% and €1.22 billion, counsel to issuer
• Gaztransport & Technigaz on its €621 million initial public offering, counsel to the underwriters
• ING U.S. (Voya) on an SEC-registered exchange offer for various outstanding notes, counsel to issuer
• J.P. Morgan, Morgan Stanley and Citigroup on the $1.215 billion public secondary offering by AXA, counsel to underwriters
• Rallye on its €195.4 million global tender offer, counsel to underwriters
• Taiwan Cement Corporation (TCC) on its €140 million rights issue of its subsidiary NHOA, counsel to issuer
• TDF Infrastructure on multiple bond offerings, pursuant to Reg S, counsel to issuer
• Total on multiple SEC-registered global bond offerings, counsel to issuer
• Universal Music Group on its initial public offering and listing on the Euronext Amsterdam, counsel to shareholder

For recent Paris office tax experience, visit our French Tax selected representations page.