Practice Areas
Fabrice Cohen is co-lead of the European Private Equity Transactions Practice alongside John Newton and Elizabeth Todd.
Fabrice serves as a trusted advisor to prominent private equity investment funds, sovereign wealth and pension funds, industrial groups, and listed companies. He is managing partner of Ropes & Gray’s Paris office. Widely respected for his extensive experience in private capital, domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, and securities law, Fabrice counsels on all aspects of public and private M&A, as well as on corporate reorganizations.
Fabrice advises across a range of today’s most dynamic sectors, including aerospace and defense, technology, automotive, healthcare and life sciences, business services, and consumer and retail. He is recognized as a leading lawyer in private equity and M&A by Chambers Europe, Chambers Global and The Legal 500 EMEA, which describes him as “go-to for several high-profile corporates” and “especially formidable when it comes to M&A, securities law, private equity deals and reorganizations.” Clients further describe Fabrice as “clever, tactical and a good adviser,” “calm but firm in negotiations,” and “able to think out of the box and find solutions.”
Career
University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (LL.M. Business and Tax Law) 1995
Salans Hertzfeld & Heilbronn, Paris 1996
Admitted as an avocat in Paris 1997
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Paris 2000
Partner, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer 2005
Head of Corporate, Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, Paris 2010
Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP, Paris 2012
Joined Clifford Chance Paris as Partner 2014
