Youssef Djehane

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.

Recent work includes advising: Diageo on the transformation of its distribution model in France and its delisting from Euronext Paris; Société M.B.D., the family controlling shareholder of Société BIC, a company listed on Euronext Paris, on corporate governance matters; Crédit Agricole Assurances (Predica) on the 1.7-billion-euro action plan adopted by Clariane to strengthen its financial structure with the support of Predica in its capacity as key shareholder and on the financial restructuring of the Comexposium Group in its capacity as jointly-controlling shareholder; and the supervisory board of Europcar Mobility Group on governance issues.

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

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).