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.