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Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability

About

Provided by De Pardieu Brocas Maffei

Our M&A team includes 10 partners, 3 Counsels, 27 associates and 1 Honoray Lawyer and is the most important practice area of De Pardieu Brocas Maffei.

Our M&A team is multidisciplinary and covers all Corporate activities:

  • M&A (sales, acquisitions)
  • Complex corporate transactions
  • Joint-ventures, mergers
  • Restructuring
  • Stock-exchange transactions
  • Private Equity
  • Distressed M&A


The M&A team assists French and international clients during all the phases of their transactions. It works closely with other practice areas of the firm, such as the Real Estate and the Financing teams on large deals and also draws from the resources of our Competition, Tax, Employment, Restructuring & Insolvency and Dispute Resolution
lawyers.


Our M&A team has an in-depth experience and expertise in relation to Investment especially in Financial and Insurance Institutions Group and Real Estate sectors for institutional clients that we have been advising for many years. This provides us with an extensive knowledge of the issues and actors of such sectors (Investors, Advisors, Banks, Regulators) and allowing us to anticipate on our client’s expectations and develop a pragmatic and deal making approach of the transactions.






Chambers Review

Provided by Chambers

Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability - France

4
Band 4

What the Team is Known For

De Pardieu Brocas Maffei is adept at handling a broad range of matters in the corporate sphere including takeovers, sales, restructurings and tender offers. The firm has wide-ranging knowledge of the insurance, energy and TMT industries, with market-renowned expertise in real estate deals. The lawyers often collaborate closely with the firm's tax, competition and finance departments.

Notable practitioners

Guillaume Touttée, Cédric Chanas, Nicolas Favre and Jean-François Pourdieu are key client contacts in the practice.

Work Highlights

Provided by De Pardieu Brocas Maffei

  • De Pardieu Brocas Maffei acted for Exor on signing a memorandum of understanding in connection with the EUR7.8 billion sale of PartnerRe to Covéa.

Strengths

Provided by Chambers

"De Pardieu understand deals and can take a pragmatic and business view."

Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability respondent
Europe

"The team are highly available and very competent, always putting their clients' needs first."

Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability respondent
Europe

"The deal was handled amazingly. Had De Pardieu not been with us, I think we would not have got through to this point today."

Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability respondent
Europe

"The De Pardieu team are very reactive and creative in terms of the solutions to be put in place. It is very comfortable to work with the team."

Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability respondent
Europe

"De Pardieu's skills are their availability, responsiveness, expertise and pragmatism."

Corporate/M&A: High-end Capability respondent
Europe

Members

Provided by De Pardieu Brocas Maffei

Cédric Chanas

Eric Muller

Etienne Boursican

Frédéric Keller

Grégoire Balland

Guillaume Touttée

Jean-François Pourdieu

Magali Masson

Nicolas Favre

Patrick Jaïs

Sandra Aloui

Thomas Bréart de Boisanger

Clients

Provided by De Pardieu Brocas Maffei

Accorinvest

Altarea

Altice

Axa

Batipart

Big mamma

Carrefour

Cdc habitat group (ampere gestion)

Cnp assurances

Covivio

Credit agricole assurances

Credit mutuel

Edf energies nouvelles

Exor

Frey

GIC

Groupe pierre et vacances - center parcs

Groupe soufflet

La banque postale

Looping group

Mbws

Natixis

Saint-gobain

Scor

Technicolor

Terrena

Transdev group

Veolia

Industries

Provided by De Pardieu Brocas Maffei

Agri-business / food

Energy

Financial services (banking, insurance)

Healthcare

Industry

Infrastructure

Real estate

Technology-media-telecoms (TMT)

White & spirits industry