CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY
For decades, we have been shaping corporate finance law with you through our transactional activity and its innovative, multi-sectoral approach.
Our teams have always supported the development of companies, project leaders or investment funds. Today, we are still innovating every day to help you grow.
Our approach is global and our teams work with you even before the start of your strategic operations to identify the best opportunities and the best legal and financial tools.
Our lawyers offer their specialized expertise and creativity to intermediate-sized enterprise, international groups and their subsidiaries, financial institutions and investment funds. Pioneers in our international development, we operate in a resolutely cross-border context and accompany the development of your companies throughout the world.
Our expertise
MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
We assist you in your M&A transactions, our ability to innovate and anticipate has been at the heart of our transactional activity for over fifty years.
Our research and studies on market developments and on numerous sectors of activity allow us to accurately apprehend any strategic operations you may need in order to provide you with effective support that goes beyond simple legal advice.
Our practice, in France and abroad, covers various economic sectors (finance, health, services, industry, energy, media, etc.) and all types of strategic operations of external growth or reorganization of groups and companies.
- Main fields of activity:
- Strategic external growth cases;
- Mainly mid cap and large cap transactions.
- Key areas of expertise:
- Acquisition and disposal of shares and businesses;
- Carve-out, including cross-border;
- Joint ventures and partnerships;
- Corporate governance;
- Acquisitions and disposals of participating interests;
- Mergers, demergers, restructurings;
- Shareholders’ agreements;
- Due Diligence.
- A recognized cross-border expertise:
- More than 50% of our M&A transactions involve an international party;
- Jeantet advises companies involving French and foreign targets.
- Support of a full service firm:
- Employment and tax law, environment, real estate, litigation, Commercial, Compliance...
- Notifications, merger control in France and abroad;
- Foreign investments.
Tailor-made and innovative advice: Development of an offensive strategy designed for you and your company. Jeantet is strongly involved in compliance and anti-corruption issues (Sapin II law).
A partner at the heart of its clients’ realities: Regular speakers at conferences, our lawyers are regularly consulted on major reform projects. Jeantet is strongly involved in compliance and anti-corruption issues (Sapin II law).
CORPORATE LAW AND GOVERNANCE
- Complex corporate law: issuance of complex securities, capital restructuring, joint ventures, social economy (SESS, ESUS), internal exchanges and share buybacks.
- European company law: European company, cross-border mergers and demergers.
- Corporate governance: pacts, charters, compensation policies (say on pay).
PRIVATE EQUITY
Our Private Equity practice differentiates itself by its economic vision of your needs, complemented by a specific know-how, which are decisive factors for a rigorous structuring of your operations. The diversified experience and training of our lawyers, whether in mergers and acquisitions, financing or taxation, form the solid foundations of our practice.
- Main fields of activity:
- Majority LBO;
- MBO;
- Venture capital;
- Acquisition financing;
- Refinancing and recapitalization operations;
- Management Package;
- Build-up operations;
- Tax structuring;
- A recognized cross-border expertise
- Our clients include major international and French stakeholders, such as investment funds, banks, mezzanine funds, shareholders and managers.
LISTED COMPANIES AND CAPITAL MARKETS LAW
- Initial public offering: Public offering, private placement or direct listing on Euronext Paris, Euronext Growth Paris or Euronext Access Paris: structuring of the transaction, drafting of the prospectus, filing with the AMF ;
- Securities offerings: Capital increase with cancellation or maintenance of preferential subscription rights, issue of complex securities (e.g. OCABSA, OCEANE, ORNANE, equity-lines) ;
- Public offers: Friendly or unsolicited public offers (purchase, exchange, withdrawal), delisting, takeover strategies (concerted action), anti-takeover defense ;
- Investment in listed companies: Crossing thresholds and declarations of intent, control issues, other reporting obligations, prevention of market abuse ;
- Assistance in corporate law and stock exchange law: General shareholders’ meetings, regulated information, share-based incentive plans for executives and employees, identification and management of regulated information ;
- Corporate governance: Structuring and organization of governance, executive compensation, organization and operation of boards, CSR, assistance in crisis situations and image risk ;
- Trust: Setting up of management trusts allowing in particular the restructuring of debts of all kinds. Innovative tool allowing the repayment of the debt by the market through successive capital increases generated by the exercise of warrants allocated free of charge to the trustee (equitization process). The newly created shares are then resold on the market and the proceeds are returned to the original creditor.
STOCK MARKET LITIGATION
Jeantet works on behalf of its individual and corporate clients beginning at the initial AMF investigation stage, and supports them through any administrative proceedings conducted by AMF’s Board and Sanctions Committee. These proceedings are often based on a criticism with regard to the timing or quality of publicly reported information, or even the alleged existence of market abuses (dissemination of false information, insider trading violations, market manipulation, etc.)
On a broader level, we assist our clients (issuers, majority and minority shareholders, investors, company executives, financial brokers) throughout the course of any litigations featuring a “stock market” dimension, meaning those with public shareholders, shareholder disputes (abuse by majority shareholders, governance issues), and even specific regulations (takeover bids, AMF Doctrine, “golden parachutes,” etc.).
For all of these disputes, we have developed an expertise based on the decompartmentalization of jurisdictions (corporate law, stock exchange regulations, civil and/or criminal proceedings) in conjunction with the firm's other teams (financial regulation, labor law, collective proceedings). To cite one example,
we have submitted to the Constitutional Council a Priority Question of Constitutionality (QPC) based on the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 in a case involving the crossing of thresholds by an action in concert.
DISTRESSED M&A
The takeover of a company placed in the context of insolvency proceedings cannot be handled under M&A rules. Our cross-functional approach to cases and the expertise of our Restructuring and M&A lawyers enable us to assist our clients in dealing with these specific situations and the complex issues that arise therefrom.
CORPORATE LITIGATION
We combine our knowledge of complex transactions with a strong litigation practice and provide our support and expertise to you, executives and companies, by developing a personalized legal strategy to defend your interests.
- Conflicts between shareholders;
- Liability of directors for mismanagement;
- Post-acquisition litigation;
- Stock market litigation.
Jeantet advised OMNES in setting up its partnership with STONEHEDGE
Paris, 15 April, 2024 – Jeantet advised Omnes, a leading private equity firm dedicated to energy transition and innovation, in the context of its partnership with Stonehedge to create Mégalithe, a joint venture dedicated to developing Class A logistics projects with high environmental standards in France. Through Construction Energie Plus 2, its fund dedicated to […]
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Jeantet advises the GIFI group on its 100% takeover of BRICOLEX
Paris, April 4, 2024 – After having advised it, in the course of 2023, on its acquisition of a minority stake, Jeantet advised the Gifi group, specialized in the retail distribution of home decoration and bazaar products under the “Gifi” brand, on its 100% takeover of Le Chamois, specialized in the retail sale of do-it-yourself […]
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Jeantet advised JUNGBUNZLAUER group in the context of the acquisition of ALLIANCE GUMS & INDUSTRIES from ROQUETTE group
Paris, 1 March 2024 – Jeantet advised Jungbunzlauer group on the acquisition of Alliance Gums & Industries from Roquette Ventures, part of the Roquette group. On February 29, 2024, Jungbunzlauer group completed the acquisition of Alliance Gums & Industries from Roquette Ventures, part of the Roquette group. Alliance Gums & Industries is an expert blending […]
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Jeantet advised MOBILITY TRADER HOLDING in the context of the sale of CARIZY to COFIDIS GROUP
Paris, 2 February 2024 – Jeantet advised Mobility Trader Holding GmbH, the parent company of the heycar group (Berlin, Germany), held by the Volkswagen, Allianz and Renault groups on the sale of Carizy SAS to the Cofidis group. On January 31, 2024, Mobility Trader Holding GmbH, the parent company of the heycar group (Berlin Germany), […]
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Jeantet advises SWEN CAPITAL PARTNERS on its investment in LANGA INTERNATIONAL in connection with a 85 million euros capital increase
Paris, 29 January 2024 – JEANTET advises SWEN Capital Partners on its investment in LANGA INTERNATIONAL, an independent developer and producer of renewable electricity in France and internationally. JEANTET assists SWEN Capital Partners (via SWIFT 2 – SWEN Impact Fund for Transition 2) in this second round of funding, alongside Bpifrance and RGREEN INVEST, historical […]
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Jeantet advises HEEX TECHNOLOGIES on its EUR 6 million fundraising round
Paris, 19 January 2024 – Founded in 2019 by Bruno Mendes Da Silva and Arnaud de La Fortelle, Heex Technologies is a French start-up which is committed to support and accelerate the development of artificial intelligence, while reducing its environmental impact, with the “Smart Data” technology it has developed. After proving itself in the mobility […]
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Jeantet advised EB-SIM in the context of the acquisition of three wind parks from Volkswind, a subsidiary of the Swiss energy company Axpo
Paris, 3 January 2024 – Jeantet advised EB Sustainable Investment Management GmbH on the acquisition of a portfolio of three operating wind farms with a total nominal capacity of 72 MW from Volkswind GmbH, a subsidiary of the Swiss energy company Axpo. On December 15, 2023, Volkswind GmbH, German subsidiary of the Swiss energy company […]
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Jeantet advises Quandela in its EUR 50 million fundraising
Jeantet advises Quandela, an European leader in quantum photonics, co-founded by Niccolo Somachi, Valérian Giesz and Pascale Senellart-Mardon, in its EUR 50 million fundraising. At the end of 2022, Quandela became the first player in the European Union, and one of the few worldwide, to make quantum computers accessible via the cloud, with the acquisition […]
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Jeantet advised Equinox Industries in the acquisition of Clear Channel France
Paris, 7 November 2023 – Jeantet advised Equinox Industries, industrial French holding, in the acquisition of Clear Channel France, the second largest advertising operator in France. After several months of exclusive negotiations and an information and consultation process that culminated in a positive opinion from the works council of Clear Channel France (CCF), Equinox Industries, […]
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Newsflash – Corporate – Venture Capital – French government announcements to support Innovative Startup Companies (JEI)
For the occasion of the French Tech’s 10th anniversary, new measures stemming from the report of Parliament Member Paul Midy (for which Jeantet had been consulted) have been announced. These measures, which aim at supporting the French startup ecosystem, should be included in the next Finance Act for 2024. ► Doubling of companies eligible to […]
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Jeantet advised Komax in the acquisition of Alcava, Lintech, Malintech and Tulintech
Paris, 18 October 2023 – Jeantet advised Komax in the acquisition of Alcava SAS including Lintech in France, Malintech in Morrocco and Tulintech in Tunisia. Komax is a listed Swiss company specialized in the industrial equipment sector, and market and technology leader in automated cable handling solutions. The cross-border transaction involved the acquisition of Alcava […]
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