Career
Mr. de Vilmorin has been a partner in S&C’s Paris office since 2006. He is head of the Firm’s European M&A practice and of the Firm’s French Capital Markets practice. He is a member of the Paris and New York bars, and frequently advises both French and international clients on a wide variety of prominent mergers and acquisitions, private equity, and capital markets transactions. Mr. de Vilmorin has considerable experience representing purchasers, sellers and financial institutions in mergers and acquisitions of listed and private companies. His recent M&A experience includes Fiat Chrysler’s pending merger with Peugeot; Tiffany’s pending acquisition by Louis Vuitton; EssilorLuxottica’s pending acquisition of GrandVision; Kering’s sale of Volcom; Syntel’s acquisition by Atos; Altran’s acquisition of Aricent; Elis’ acquisition of Berendsen; Rhône’s acquisition of Zodiac’s global pool business and Frank McCourt’s acquisition of Olympique de Marseille.
In capital markets, Mr. de Vilmorin is highly accomplished in advising both issuers and underwriters in a range of debt and equity transactions. His recent capital markets clients include: AXA; Alcatel-Lucent; TDF Infrastructure; EDF; Suez; Elis, Gaztransport & Technigaz; Paris RE and EDF Energies Nouvelles.