The Legal 500

Work Department

Private equity, mergers and acquisitions and securities.

Position

E Raman Bet-Mansour is a corporate partner and a member of the firm’s private equity, mergers and acquisitions and securities groups and has also extensive experience with international joint ventures, and debt and project financings.

Career

Mr Bet-Mansour was resident in Debevoise & Plimpton LLP’s New York office from 1989-93 and 1998-2004, and in the firm’s Paris office 1994-97 and from 2005-10. Recent representations include: United BioSource, a portfolio company of Oak Hill and Berkshire Partners, in its $730m sale to Medco Health Solutions Inc; Pardus Capital Management in its investments in Valeo and Atos Origin; Rexel and its shareholders, including Clayton Dubilier & Rice and Eurazeo, in Rexel’s €6.4bn IPO, leveraged acquisition of GE Supply for $725m and issuances of €650m 8.25% senior notes due 2016 and €600m 9 3/8% senior subordinated notes due 2015; Gaz de France in its €70bn merger with Suez; Alstom in the sale to Aker Yards of its Marine Sector, including Chantiers de l’Atlantique, the shipyard that built Queen Mary II and various other historic cruise ships; Legrand and its shareholders, including KKR and Wendel Investissement, in the €7bn IPO of Legrand and subsequent sell-downs by its shareholders; Ripplewood Holdings, Eton Park and other investors in their acquisition of a 19.7% interest in Commercial International Bank (Egypt), SAE, one of the largest Egyptian private bank; Lazard’s founding families in the $1.6bn buyout of their 35% interest in connection with Lazard’s IPO.

Languages

French, Farsi (Persian) and Aramaic.

Member

Supervisory board of the Aspen Institute France.

Education

The Johns Hopkins University (1985 BA); The School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University (1986 MA); Columbia Law School (1989 JD).