Stephen Walters is a member of the Paris Bar and a solicitor in English law. For over twenty years he has advised clients in France and internationally on public and private mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, private equity transactions and other complex strategic transactions. His practice also includes advising on corporate governance issues and institutional investors in connection with their investments in private equity funds.
He advises clients in a wide range of sectors, with particular experience in the life sciences, technology, energy and financial services sectors.
Skills
Bar. : Paris (1994) - Solicitor (England and Wales - 1988)
Language(s) : French - English
Training :
- University of Warwick, England, LLB (Hons)
Publications
- FDI Screening and Equity Financings of French Growth Companies
- Warranty and Indemnity Insurance on French PE Exits: Management Team risk, an issue for Sponsors?
- M&A in France: FDI Screening
- Faced with investment contraction, tech seeks alternatives – Forbes, 10/03/2022 – Quote from Stephen Walters
- The French Tech Next40 2022: a Legal Survey
- Flash Info : the French High Committee for Corporate Governance has published its eighth annual report, 22/11/2021
- Jeantet advises Inventory Planner on its sale to the Brightpearl Group
- Advised Thoma Bravo on the acquisition of Talend.
- Advised Falcon Private Holdings on its the acquisition of Eurocave from Talis.
- Advised Inventory Planner on its sale to the Brightpearl Group.
- Advised Curium Group in relation to the acquisitions of Cyclopharma SA and MAP Medical Technologies.
- Advised Global Innovation Fund in relation to its participation a €10 million equity financing of Afrimarket SAS, a leader in cash-to- goods money transfers in Africa.
- Advised an institutional investor on its co-investment in the USD 6.6 billion take private of a European telecoms group.
- Advised an institutional investor on its co-investment in the GBP 1.45 billion take private of a publicly traded infrastructure company.
- Advised an institutional investor on its co-investment in the circa EUR 1 billion leveraged buyout of a French chemicals producer.
- Advised Integra Life Sciences in relation to the sale of its extremity orthopedics business to Smith & Nephew.
- Advised a leading international schools group and its shareholders in relation to the sale of the group.
- Advised New Science Ventures in a 24 million euro Series C equity fundraising by French tech company Isorg.
- Advised OrbiMed Advisors in a 40 million euro Series B equity fundraising by French biotech company ENYO Pharma.
- Advised the owner of The Four Seasons Hotel Bora Bora, French Polynesia, and its shareholders on the sale of the company to funds managed by Gaw Capital Partners.
- Advised SK Capital Partners and minority co-owner Ion Beam Applications S.A on the sale of IBA Molecular to private equity funds advised by CapVest Partners LP.
- Advised a French adtech company, in its equity fundraising by a group of investors for an amount of EUR 8.2 million.
- Advised listed company on the sale of one of its American subsidiaries for USD 204 million.
Includes transactions completed prior to joining Jeantet in January 2021.
Jeantet advises investment funds Orbimed and Jeito Capital in connection with a EUR 65 million financing of Corteria Pharmaceuticals
Paris, September 8, 2023 – Jeantet has advised investment funds OrbiMed and Jeito Capital in connection with the series A financing of French biopharmaceutical company Corteria Pharmceuticals. Corteria Pharmaceuticals, a biopharmaceutical company specializing in the development of transformative therapies for heart failure subpopulations, announced on September 7, 2023 a EUR 65 million series A financing, […]
Paris | CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY
FDI Screening and Equity Financings of French Growth Companies
Stephen Walters, corporate partner and Victoria Régis, Counsel at Jeantet, examine the application of the FDI screening regime to primary equity investments in French companies whose activities fall within the scope of the regime and ask whether there are features of the regime that might be better adapted when applied to such cases. Download the research note […]
Paris | CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY
Warranty and Indemnity Insurance on French PE Exits: Management Team risk, an issue for Sponsors?
Stephen Walters, Corporate M&A / PE partner, sheds light on this topic in a research note available here.
Paris | CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY
M&A in France: FDI Screening
The French Ministry of the Economy has recently published, for the first time, guidelines regarding the procedures for the screening of foreign direct investments in France. Stephen Walters, Partner (Jeantet) and Victoria Régis, Counsel (Jeantet) have authored an overview of the French FDI screening regime which discusses some of the key points to emerge from […]
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Faced with investment contraction, tech seeks alternatives – Forbes, 10/03/2022 – Quote from Stephen Walters
Global venture capital funding reached $25.2 billion in August 2022, the lowest monthly amount recorded in two years by Crunchbase. Until adequate government action is announced, several funding alternatives can be considered. « Cette forte baisse des valeurs de la tech depuis le début de l’année a commencé au Nasdaq, mais ses effets se ressentent […]
Paris | MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS
The French Tech Next40 2022: a Legal Survey
Equity financings by French start-ups and scale ups have reached record levels in the past few years, both in volume and value. We thought that it would be interesting to review the publicly available corporate documents on a selection of the most successful amongst them, to see what lessons we could learn objectively about “what’s […]
Paris | CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY
First edition of the Jeantet Student Excellence Award
Paris, April 13, 2022: Jeantet, in partnership with Queen Mary University of London’s Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) and the École de Droit de la Sorbonne , has organized the first edition of the Jeantet Student Excellence Award, in support of the Sorbonne – Queen Mary Double LLM programme and Queen Mary LLM students […]
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[WEBINAR] Disputes in the Luxury Hotel Sector: How to avoid them and how to manage them?
Our partners Ioana Knoll-Tudor and Stephen Walters participated in the webinar organised by the International Luxury Hotel Association on “Disputes in the Luxury Hotel Sector: How to avoid them and how to manage them?”. Watch the replay Read the article
Paris | LITIGATION – ARBITRATION – MEDIATION
Jeantet becomes a partner of the Queen Mary University of London Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) / the Sorbonne law school double LLM
Paris, January 28, 2022 – Jeantet has signed a three year partnership with Queen Mary University of London’s Centre for Commercial Law Studies (CCLS) and the Sorbonne Law School, in support of their Double LLM programme. This partnership is part of Jeantet’s sustained commitment to supporting the education and development of future legal talent. By […]
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Jeantet advises Vertiv (NYSE: VRT) on the sale of its french subsidiary, Vertiv Industrial Systems, and the foreigne assets of its industrial business in the United Kingdom, Turkey, Spain and theUunited Arab Emirates
Paris, 10 January 2022 – Jeantet advised Vertiv, a company listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), on the sale of its French subsidiary Vertiv Industrial Systems (now Chloride) and the foreign assets of its industrial activities in the United Kingdom, Turkey, Spain and the United Arab Emirates, forming the Chloride group, to Innovafonds […]
| CORPORATE – M&A – PRIVATE EQUITY | IP, TECH & DATA
Flash Info : the French High Committee for Corporate Governance has published its eighth annual report, 22/11/2021
The High Committee for Corporate Governance (“HCGE”) published on 10 November 2021 its eighth annual report (the “Report”). The mission of the HCGE is to monitor compliance with the principal French Corporate Governance Code, the Afep-Medef Code of Corporate Governance for Listed Companies (the “Code”), by those companies whose shares are listed on a regulated […]
Paris | CORPORATE LAW AND GOVERNANCE
Jeantet advises Inventory Planner on its sale to the Brightpearl Group
Paris, September 22, 2021, Jeantet advised Inventory Planner, a leading e-commerce inventory management and forecasting company, and its shareholders on the sale of Inventory Planner to the Brightpearl group, enabling the latter to broaden its technological offering by integrating an inventory management software for e-commerce players. This is a first step in its longer-term strategy to make Brightpearl the market leader in […]
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