Antoine-Audoin Maggiar
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Work Department
Corporate finance.
Position
Focuses on developing the firm’s international portfolio of clients and works with BLP’s preferred firms across Europe.
Career
Qualified, Paris 1980; Slaughter and May 1980-2006, local partner 1987, worldwide partner 1991; BLP, partner 2006 to date. Recent publications: ‘La Transposition en France de la Directive sur les Offres Publiques’ (‘The Implementation of the Takeover Directive in France), in ‘Décideurs’ 71, December 2005; ‘La conclusion de contrats par voie électronique (‘Entry into contracts by electronic means’) in ‘Gazette du Palais’, November 2005; ‘Obligations High Yield: Où localiser la société émettrice’ (‘High Yield Bonds: where to locate the issuing company’), in ‘Capital Finance Hebdo’ 767, September 2005; ‘L’actionnariat salarié comme parade aux appétits étrangers (‘Employee shareholders as an answer to foreign appetites’), interview in ‘AGEFI, September 2005; ‘Loi de Sauvegarde: changer de mentalités’ (‘The Prevention and Insolvency Act: a change of attitude’), interview in ‘Croissance Actualités, July 2005; ‘Le Point sur la transposition des directives Prospectus et Abus de Marché’ (‘Note on the implementation of the Prospectus and Market Abuse Directives’), in ‘Décideurs’ 66, June 2005; and ‘Corporate Governance in France’, in ‘Euromoney Compliance Offier’s Handbook’ 2005.
Languages
French, English.
Member
Association des Avocats Conseils d’Entreprise (Head of International Committee); International Bar Association; Union Internationale des Avocats.
Education
French postgraduate degree in tax and business law at the Paris University Assas; diploma of the Paris Institute of Business Law; BA in English language; Cambridge University, certificate of proficiency; summer session for foreign lawyers at Hertford College, Oxford University.
Leisure
Country life, classic cars, antiques.
Practice Areas
Corporate and commercial; Corporate finance; M&A
