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BDGS Associés Offices
51 RUE FRANCOIS 1ER
75008 PARIS
France
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Youssef Djehane
Work Department
Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Law
Position
Partner focusing on matters concerning listed companies, including listed companies, including takeovers, capital restructurings, equity capital markets transactions, corporate governance matters and shareholder disputes.
Recent work includes advising: Crédit Agricole Assurances (Predica) on two real estate partnerships with Clariane; its acquisition of an additional minority stake in Aéroports de Paris (Group ADP), its acquisition in consortium with Ardian of a minority stake in Inwit, the tender of its stake in Alstria Office REIT-AG to the cross-border public offer for Alstria Office REIT-AG launched by its largest shareholder Brookfield Asset Management, the financial restructuring of the Comexposium Group in its capacity as jointly-controlling shareholder, and a series of transactions concerning Société Foncière Lyonnaise (SFL), including a mixed public offer by Inmobiliara Colonial for SFL and asset swaps with SFL; Diageo on its ICC arbitration in respect of its joint venture with LVMH in Moët Hennessy and its delisting from Euronext Paris; and Qatar Investment Authority as reference shareholder of Lagardère.
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.
Languages
French and English
Memberships
Regular speaker at IBA M&A conferences. Author of the IBA Takeover Guide France and of “Corporate Governance and Directors’ Duties in France” for Practical Law (Thomson Reuters).
Education
Paris Bar (1987)
Postgraduate diploma in Private Law from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (1985)
Lawyer Rankings
France > Mergers and acquisitions
BDGS Associés fields ‘a high-level team with exceptional legal technique combined with leading transactional experience’. The group acts for CAC 40 companies as well as state-owned companies and investors. The firm has strong credentials in public and private M&A transactions as well as corporate reorganisations, and recently advised on high-profile deals across various sectors and industries (internet, renewables, transport, telecoms, finance). It is also the go-to-firm for high-end work involving the public sector with Jean-Emmanuel Skovron an expert in this area. Skovron jointly heads the practice alongside the highly regarded Marc Loy
, Antoine Bonnasse and Youssef Djehane. Other key names include Thomas Méli, Lucile Gaillard , François Baylion, Jérôme du Chazaud and David Andréani.