Youssef Djehane

Practice Areas

Partner focusing on matters concerning listed companies, including listed companies, including takeovers, capital restructurings, equity capital markets transactions, corporate governance matters and shareholder disputes.

Recent work includes advising: Crédit Agricole Assurances (Predica) on two real estate partnerships with Clariane, its acquisition of an additional minority stake in Aéroports de Paris (Group ADP), its acquisition in consortium with Ardian of a minority stake in Inwit, the tender of its stake in Alstria Office REIT-AG to the cross-border public offer for Alstria Office REIT-AG launched by its largest shareholder Brookfield Asset Management, the financial restructuring of the Comexposium Group in its capacity as jointly-controlling shareholder, and a series of transactions concerning Société Foncière Lyonnaise (SFL), including a mixed public offer by Inmobiliara Colonial for SFL and asset swaps with SFL; Diageo on its ICC arbitration in respect of its joint venture with LVMH in Moët Hennessy and its delisting from Euronext Paris; and Qatar Investment Authority as reference shareholder of Lagardère.

Publications

Regular speaker at the IBA M&A conferences.

Author of IBA Takeover Guide France and of "Corporate Governance and Directors' Duties in France" for Practical Law (Thomson Reuters).

Personal

Paris Bar (1987). Postgraduate degree in Private Law from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (1985).

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.