France
Practice Areas
Partner focusing on complex M&A and matters concerning listed companies, including takeovers, capital restructurings, equity capital markets transactions, corporate governance matters and shareholder disputes.
Career
Before founding BDGS Associés in 2013, Youssef Djehane was a partner since 1994 at Gide Loyrette Nouel where he started his career in 1986. He was seconded to Allen & Overy, London, in 1990 and then to the World Bank in Washington in 1992.
Publications
Youssef Djehane is a regular speaker at the Annual International M&A Conference organized by the International Bar Association (IBA) in New York.
Work Highlights
He has recently represented Société M.B.D., the family controlling shareholder of BIC, on the reorganisation of the family governance and the control structure with respect to BIC; the supervisory board of Europcar Mobility Group on governance issues; Crédit Agricole Assurances (Predica) as reference shareholder on the €1.5 billion refinancing plan adopted by Clariane and the financial restructuring of the Comexposium Group; Diageo on its joint venture with LVMH in Moët Hennessy, its distribution arrangements with Moët Hennessy and its delisting from Euronext Paris; and Qatar Investment Authority as reference shareholder of Lagardère.
Personal
Paris Bar (1987)
Post Graduate Diploma in Private Law, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (1985)
