Youssef Djehane

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.

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.

Youssef Djehane is a regular speaker at the Annual International M&A Conference organized by the International Bar Association (IBA) in New York.

Paris Bar (1987)

Post Graduate Diploma in Private Law, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (1985)

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.