Jeremy Scemama

Jeremy Scemama is a Private Equity M&A partner, with particular expertise in leveraged buyouts (LBOs), and a member of Proskauer's Private Capital industry group.

For more than 25 years, Jeremy has advised some of the most prominent French and international investment funds and their management teams on high-profile private equity transactions, including MBOs, LBOs, exits and secondary deals, investments, public-to-private transactions, build-ups and growth capital. He also regularly counsels leading listed and unlisted industrial and service groups on their most complex domestic and cross-border transactions, spanning acquisitions, disposals, mergers, joint ventures, strategic partnerships, financings, restructurings and external growth operations.

Jeremy’s practice covers a wide variety of sectors, including financial services, hospitality and leisure, technology, media and entertainment, sports, and healthcare/life sciences.

Over the course of his career, Jeremy has developed top-tier expertise in securities-related transactions, such as takeover bids, PIPE deals, squeeze-outs, delistings and privatizations.

Jeremy's clients include market-leading investment funds and corporates such as Montefiore Investment, PAI Partners, The Carlyle Group, MML Capital, Alpha Private Equity, Latour Capital, Meanings Capital Partners, European Camping Group, Worldline, Groupe Premium and Qualcomm.

Publications

• SPACs in France, an original vehicle for accessing financial markets, likely to develop in France?, La Lettre des Juristes d'Affaires (LJA), April 2021

• Overview of the contractual engineer of M&A operations: latest trends in France and internationally a market already in transition? Mergers & Acquisitions Magazine, no. 314, January-February 2021