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Capital Markets: Equity - France

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What the Team is Known For

Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton has market-leading capabilities in ECM, regularly acting on major IPOs and rights issues. The team offers expertise in the field of debt, with notable strength in a variety of bond issuances as well as EMTN programmes and private placements. The practice is best known for its work for large corporate issuers, sovereign states and leading banking institutions. The team features experts in French and US law.

Work Highlights

  • Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton advised Canal+ on its listing on the London Stock Exchange.

Strengths

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Notable Practitioners

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John Brinitzer
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John Brinitzer
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John Brinitzer is a renowned equity specialist, who is qualified to practise at the Paris and New York Bars. He advises on high-value IPOs, particularly within the tech and biotech sectors, in addition to convertible bonds and rights offerings.

He is the best US lawyer based in Paris, and is very sharp on US securities law with deep expertise.

John Brinitzer offers strong involvement and excellent sector competence.

Marie-Laurence Tibi
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Marie-Laurence Tibi
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Marie-Laurence Tibi is renowned for her equity expertise, frequently assisting with IPOs and rights issuances. She advises both domestic and international issuers.

Marie-Laurence Tibi has a breadth of experience with an ability to move matters along. She knows how to reach a consensus and the objectives set out without antagonizing key stakeholders.

Marie-Laurence's experience and foresight were invaluable in the delicate negotiation of a complex shareholders' agreement.

She was good at understanding the client's context and the constraints inherent to the transaction. She was exceptional.

She is the best lawyer in her category. She is competent, attentive and technical. It is a pleasure to work with her and her team.

Pierre-Yves Chabert
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Pierre-Yves Chabert
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Pierre-Yves Chabert has a leading presence in the equity market. He is well reputed for his broad expertise, which encompasses cross-border share capital increases and rights offerings.

He is able to understand the clients problems and the subtilities of the clients issues and proposes solutions which are pertinent and outside the box.

Pierre-Yves Chabert is very good on complex matters.

Perfection in the answer, whatever the subject when it comes to Pierre-Yves Chabert.

I am very impressed by all of his qualities. His answers, the finesse and technicality of his analysis, the calm and measured approach of his remarks. All of this makes him an exceptional lawyer.

Andrew Bernstein
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Andrew Bernstein
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Dual-qualified in France and the USA, Andrew Bernstein has a practice that spans both debt and equity capital markets. He advises on note programmes, convertible bonds, IPOs and share capital increases.

Andrew Berstein has the ability to propose alternative ways to go about projects, which saves time.

Valérie Lemaitre
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Valérie Lemaitre
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Valérie Lemaitre is highly appreciated for her debt advice. She assists with bond offerings and medium-term note programmes for large financial institutions.

She is an excellent lawyer with a very good knowledge of capital markets and our company's broader issues.

Discussions with her on the commercial side have always been carried out with a high level of responsiveness and service to the needs of our company, regardless of the complexity of the project.

Valérie Lemaitre is good at defending points and has great expertise.

She has good reflexes when it comes to opportunities and doesn't just look at the legal arguments.

Ranked Lawyers at
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Andrew Bernstein
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Andrew Bernstein
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Foreign expert for USA
John Brinitzer
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John Brinitzer
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Foreign expert for USA
Capital Markets: Debt

Valérie Lemaitre
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Valérie Lemaitre
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Andrew Bernstein
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Andrew Bernstein
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Capital Markets: Equity

John Brinitzer
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John Brinitzer
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Band 1
Marie-Laurence Tibi
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Marie-Laurence Tibi
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Pierre-Yves Chabert
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Pierre-Yves Chabert
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Andrew Bernstein
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Andrew Bernstein
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