Chammas & Marcheteau

Managing Partners: Christophe Sevennec and Denis Marcheteau

Number of partners: 14

Number of lawyers: 52: 14 partners, 1 counsel, 28 associates, 9 paralegal/trainees

Languages: French, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Turkish and Chinese.

Firm Overview:

Founded in 2004 by Lola Chammas and Denis Marcheteau, Chammas & Marcheteau originally focused solely on private equity and transactions. Today the firm counts 52 legal professionals and has 11 practice areas. The firm is one of the only independent law firms in Paris to provide a “full-cycle private equity offering” with expertise ranging from fund formation and regulatory, tax planning, management packages and employment law, capital raises and venture capital, M&A, consolidations and other strategic transactions, LBOs, IP/IT, distressed and turn-around, corporate law and real estate. Chammas & Marcheteau advises start-ups, SMEs, and large listed and unlisted groups, investment funds and managers, family offices and entrepreneurs in a broad range of business sectors.

The firm has extensive experience in cross-border transactions, notably in Europe and North America. It developed a strong international network of prominent correspondent firms, ensuring its clients seamless and coordinated delivery of international expertise. The firm's lawyers actively support legal education through teaching, publications and participation in professional organisations.

Main Areas of Practice:

Corporate, Reorganisation and Corporate Governance:

8 partners; 20 fee earners

Chammas & Marcheteau advises clients in their day-to-day corporate issues (compliance with permanent and periodic requirements, both legal and contractual), governance, capital markets, equity-based incentive plans, strategic transactions, and pre- and post-transaction reorganisations (merger, carve-out, contribution of assets and de-merger).

Key Clients: Maltem Consulting, Médincell, JobTeaser and Group Le Monde, and other French and international private and listed companies.

Contacts: Isabelle Prodhomme, Stéphanie Bréjaud

Tel: +33 6 83 72 42 96; +33 6 84 74 08 33

Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

Employment Law:

1 partner; 3 fee earners

Key Clients: Global American consultancy firm; global American IT company, and an international UK insurance and reinsurancer.

Contact: Coline Bied-Charreton

Tel: +33 6 48 21 31 98

Email: [email protected]

Funds and Financial Services:

3 partners; 8 fee earners

Chammas & Marcheteau is recognized as a leader in the legal and tax aspects of funds formation (AIF and Ucits). The firm also advises French and international asset managers and investors notably for their investments in funds, secondary transactions and in regulatory issues (liaising with the AMF and other regulators and professional organisations).

Contacts: Lola Chammas and Christophe Sevennec

Tel: +33 6 07 28 77 95; +33 6 08 05 18 58

Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

Intellectual Property, Information Technologies:

1 partner; 2 fee earners

Chammas & Marcheteau IP/IT department advises clients in a wide-range of areas notably protection of intellectual and industrial property; data protection and GDPR compliance; license (SaaS / on premise), maintenance, hosting and other IT agreements; due diligence of IP/IT and data protection issues; contractual, advisory and litigation work in the areas of copyright, trademark, patent, know-how, life science, IT, e-commerce/Internet and cinema.

Key Clients: Software editors, IT service providers, cinema producers/authors, biotech companies.

Contact: Aude Spinasse

Tel: + 33 6 86 93 67 09

Email: [email protected]

International Transactions:

All 14 partners and legal professionals

• Advised Iris on the sale of its shares to DoubleVerify, in the context of the latter's acquisition of Scibids (US) (Denis Marcheteau)
• Advised Supernova Invest in the €37.5 million fundraising of UK company Cambridge Mechatronics, alongside Atlantic Bridge, US firm Intel Capital and Japan's Sony (UK) (Lola Chammas)
• Advised Toopi Organics on its Series A financing of €11 million and almost €5 million in non-dilutive funds (Singapore – Belgium) (Denis Marcheteau)
• Advised Azulis Capital and its co-investors Société Générale Capital Partenaires, Arkéa Capital and the Fonds Souverain Auvergne Rhône-Alpes in the financing of the acquisition of the Australian group Ronstan by Wichard (Australia) (Pierre-Louis Sévegrand)
• Advised Spore.Bio on its €8 million pre-seed round, led by LocalGlobe alongside other leading venture capital investors and business angels (UK) (Lola Chammas)
• Advised Hoppen and its historical shareholders on the acquisition of a stake by Après-demain SA, joining forces with existing investors Extens and Geneo (Switzerland) (Nicolas Lecocq)

Key Clients: Iris Capital, Siemens Venture and several other funds and corporates.

Contacts: Denis Marcheteau; Nicolas Lecocq

Tel: +33 1 53 42 42 50

Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

Mergers & Acquisitions:

8 partners; 31 fee earners

• Advised Alboran on the acquisition of the Holiday Inn Express Marseille Saint-Charles (Christophe Blondeau)
• Advised Air Liquide in the sale of its subsidiary Cryopal (Jérôme Chapron)
• Advised Dotaki on its acquisition by AB Tasty (Denis Marcheteau)
• Advised Sanilea on its merger with Ambler to form Amblea, with the support of their investors Partech, Extens, Bpifrance, M Capital and Eurazeo (Nicolas Lecocq)
• Advised Tikehau Capital on the sale of its stake in the ATG-Sotip group to Nexteam (Pierre-Louis Sévegrand)

Contact: Denis Marcheteau; Nicolas Lecocq

Tel: +33 6 85 12 81 44; +33 6 29 90 60 33

Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

Private Equity:

7 partners; 24 fee earners

Chammas & Marcheteau's partners have been leaders in this practice area since before the founding of the firm. In the past year, the firm's PE team closed over 60 capital raises, buy-out and growth capital transactions in all stages of the private equity cycle. The firm's PE covers a wide range of industries, notably new technologies, life sciences, fintech and agrotech.

Key Clients: Airbus Venture, Azulis, Amundi PE, Arkéa Capital, BPI, BNP Dev, Anaxago, Extens, Innovafonds, Iris Capital, Open CNP, Siemens Venture, Supernova, XAnge, Yotta Capital Partners.

Contacts: Lola Chammas; Denis Marcheteau

Real Estate, Construction:

1 partner; 1 fee earner

Chammas & Marcheteau advises French and international companies and groups in a wide-range of areas notably real estate transactions (assets acquisitions or sales, sale and leaseback); commercial leases; asset management; real estate development projects; all construction agreements; all related to various kind of assets (retail, offices, hotesl, logistics platforms, shopping centers) and sectors (retail, food & beverage, luxury, leisure, industrial); on advice and litigation.

Key Clients: Retailers, asset management companies, real estate funds, real estate companies owning, managing and developing properties.

Contact: Eric Métais

Tel: + 33 6 60 64 95 11

Email:[email protected]

Restructuring and Turn-Around:

1 partner; 4 fee earners

• Advised CEMEDIS Group (26 dental health centers in France - revenue €45M - 490 employees ) in connection with the takeover under sale plan, of the assets and activities of the COSEM association (revenues : € 91M - 1250 employees).
• Advised GROUPE SEBBIN, a French manufacturer of medical devices and implants for cosmetic and reconstructive surgery, mainly in silicone, with 169 employees and revenues of €20 m, in connection with its receivership proceedings, which led to the sale of the whole company's share capital to SYMATESE GROUP and to the adoption, by the Commercial Court of PONTOISE, of a receivership plan with the constitution of classes of affected parties.
• Advised PRIMAVISTA, the French leader in the production and marketing of professional photographs of newborn (2022 revenues: €23,608m ; 321 employees), in connection with its safeguard procedure (constitution of classes of affected parties).
• Advised the HBRI’s (BLUE VALET) financial shareholders (SUPERNOVA INVEST, IRDI CAPITAL, DYNALIM and NACO), in connection with the company's receivership proceedings, which led to the sale of HBRI's entire share capital to its financial shareholders and founders, and to the adoption of the first receivership plan, with the creation of classes of affected parties, adopted by judgment of the BORDEAUX Commercial Court.
• Advised BLACK CODE Group, a catering and events group specialising in gourmet Japanese cuisine (86 employees and combined revenues of €14m) in connection with their insolvency proceedings.

Key Clients: CEMEDIS, Groupe Sebbin, Primavista, Black Code group.

Contact: Stéphane Cavet

Tel: +33 6 83 23 55 38

Email: [email protected]

Tax and Private Client:

1 partner; 4 fee earners

Chammas & Marcheteau advises on all tax aspects of strategic transactions, fund formation, international group issues (consolidation, transfer pricing, VAT, and intangible assets), international tax planning, and assistance in fiscal audits and litigation.

Key Clients:Sopra Steria, CS Group, Immobilière Dassault, Neoxam, Orange, Snap On (NYSE), Epopée Gestion, Supernova Invest, Extens, Yotta Capital, Iris Capital.

Contact: Christophe Moreau

Tel: +33 6 89 94 12 52

Email: [email protected]