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.
COPORATE 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 advises Redslim in a sponsorless transaction with Andera Acto
Paris, March 10, 2023, Jeantet has advised the Redslim group, specialized in the processing and exploitation of global corporate data, in a sponsorless transaction with Andera Acto, acting as financial partner. The shareholders of Redslim Group, founded by Eric Bensimon and Søren Altmann, specialized in the processing and exploitation of corporate data and self-financed since […]
Paris | CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY
Jeantet advises Otium Capital in connection with the acquisition of Atraltech
Paris, March 10, 2023, Jeantet has advised Otium Capital, an evergreen investment company managing the assets of Pierre-Edouard Stérin, founder of Smartbox, in connection with the acquisition of Atraltech, the security division of Hager Group, the European specialist in professional security solutions. Atraltech, the French specialist and leader in alarm systems, is becoming once again […]
Paris | CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY
Jeantet advised Tikheau Investment Management in refinancing the acquisition of Visco and the entry of minority investors in Visco’s capital
Paris, March 3, 2023, following the acquisition of Visco by Tikehau Investment Management in July 2022, Jeantet has assisted Tikehau Investment Management, the private equity business of Tikehau Capital, in the entry, as minority investors, of investment vehicles represented by Crédit Agricole Régions Investissement (Carvest) in the capital of Visco, a recognized operator in high-precision […]
Paris | CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY | BANK-FINANCE-REGULATORY | TAX
Jeantet advises Sabena technics in connection with the acquisition of part of the activities of Akkodis (ex-Akka technologies)
Paris, February 16, 2023, Jeantet has advised the Sabena technics group, one of the European leaders in the field of aircraft maintenance and modifications, on the acquisition of part of the activities operated by Akkodis (ex – AKKA Technologies), an engineering company. The Sabena technics group, taken over in 2019 by the Sagard and Towerbrook […]
Paris | CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY
Jeantet advises LBO France in connection with the entry into exclusive negotiations with Groupe HLD for the sale of its majority interest in Infodis
Paris, February 7, 2023 – Jeantet has advised LBO France in connection with the entry into exclusive negotiations with Groupe HLD for the sale of its majority interest in Infodis, Entreprise des Services Numériques. HLD, a permanent capital investment group specializing in the support and development of European companies, has entered into negotiations with LBO […]
Paris | CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY
Jeantet advises Belfor in connection with the acquisition of EOS Group
Paris, February 2, 2023 – Jeantet has advised the BELFOR group, the world leader in disaster recovery, on the acquisition of the EOS group. This is the third strategic acquisition made by BELFOR this year. BELFOR, which has 12,500 employees worldwide, including 800 in France, is further strengthening its global offering and adding new skills […]
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Jeantet advises Groundswell Initiative on the sale of 1Health Group to Europa Group
Paris, February 2, 2023 – Jeantet advised Groundswell Initiative on the sale of 1Health, a media group specialized in human and animal health for professionals and the general public, to Europa Group. Chaired by Julien Kouchner, 1Health is the leading French information, training, services and events group dedicated to human and animal health. Among 21 […]
Paris | CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY
Jeantet advises the Sulo Group in connection with the acquisition of Delphi Environnement
Paris, January 31, 2023, Jeantet has advised the Sulo Group, a specialist in waste management solutions, in connection with its acquisition of Delphi Environnement, a company specializing in the maintenance of cardboard presses. The SULO Group acquires Delphi Environnement SAS, a French company based in Bonlier in the Oise region since 2005 and specialized in […]
Paris | CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY
France : Investing In… 2023 guide – Chambers, 2023
Karl Hepp de Sevelinges, partner, and Robert d’Orglandes, associate, contributed to the Chambers guide “The Investing In… 2023” part France. The Investing In… 2023 provides the latest information on foreign direct investment, market trends, mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance and disclosure/reporting, capital markets, antitrust/competition, tax, employment and labor, and IP and data protection
Paris | CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY | CORPORATE LAW AND GOVERNANCE
Jeantet advises Dzeta in connection with its acquisition of a participating interest in Akesa
Paris, January 27, 2023, Jeantet advised Dzeta, Claude Darmon’s family office, in connection with its acquisition of a participating interest in Akesa, a company specializing in cleaning services, via a capital increase. Dzeta Conseil enters the capital of Akesa and engages in a new sector, the cleaning industry, via a minority investment. This capital increase […]
Paris | CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY
Jeantet advises Webedia in connection with the sale of Semantiweb to the European Digital Group
Paris, January 27, 2023, Jeantet has advised Webedia, a French online media group, on the sale of Semantiweb, an agency specialized in conversational data analysis, to European Digital Group, a digital transformation specialist. European Digital Group (EDG) is accelerating its external growth and strengthening its data business through the acquisition of Semantiweb, an agency specializing […]
Paris | CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY
Jeantet advises Nippon Steel Corporation on the sale of all its shares in Vallourec S.A.
Paris, 25 January 2023 – Jeantet advised the Japanese group Nippon Steel Corporation on the sale of its entire shareholding in Vallourec S.A., a company listed on the regulated market of Euronext Paris, for a total sale price of €77.7m, as part of an Accelerated Book Building (ABB) transaction.
Paris | LISTED COMPANIES AND CAPITAL MARKETS LAW | MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS