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Jones Day Offices
2 RUE SAINT-FLORENTIN
75001 PARIS
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Charles Gavoty
Work Department
Private Equity; M&A; Technology; Health Care & Life Sciences
Position
Partner
Career
Charles Gavoty serves clients in the hi-tech, biotech, medtech and fintech industries in matters relating to capital markets, mergers and acquisitions, venture capital and private equity. He represents a large number of emerging companies and their managers or investors in transactions ranging from seed to late-stage financing, private and public M&A deals, IPOs, private placements and rights issues, to corporate structuring and management compensation packages. In 2001, he received the Lavoisier Scholarship awarded by the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs.
Languages
French, English
Education
- Columbia University (LL.M. 2002; Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar);
- Université de Paris I-Panthéon Sorbonne (DEA in Business Transactions Law with honors 1999;
- Maîtrise with high honors 1998);
- ESSEC Graduate School of Management (Diploma 1997)
Lawyer Rankings
France > Capital markets: equity capital markets
Jones Day combines strong US and French ECM expertise within its Paris office, and has a strong involvement alongside issuers including a number of startups and biotech companies, while also assisting several banks and arrangers. The practice regularly assists clients with share capital increase and IPO transactions and also handles convertible work. On the US front, it assists clients with SEC registration and US private placement needs. The team also stands out for its ability to assist dual-listed French issuers on their US registered Yankee bond programmes. The team is jointly headed by US expert Linda Hesse, Florent Bouyer, and Renaud Bonnet. Charles Gavoty also contributes.
France > Private equity: venture/growth capital
(Leading individuals)Praised by one client for its ‘very detailed knowledge of venture capital market practices’ and billed by another as ‘the reference in Paris’, the Jones Day team excels at delivering counsel on venture and growth capital matters, from seed to late stage financing. The group assists start-ups and multinationals alike and has particular expertise with regards the tech and biotech segments. The practice is jointly led by a group of four partners, comprising: Renaud Bonnet, Charles Gavoty, Jean-Gabriel Griboul, and Geoffroy Pineau-Valencienne. Anne Kerneur is an additional key contact. Alexandre Wibaux relocated to the firm’s New York office.
Lawyer Rankings
- Leading individuals France > Private equity: venture/growth capital
- Private equity: venture/growth capital France
- Capital markets: equity capital markets France
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Administrative and public law
- Derivatives and structured finance
- Environment
- Industry focus: Telecoms
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
- Industry focus: Telecoms
- Private equity: venture/growth capital
- Industry focus: Telecoms
Firm Rankings
- Capital markets: equity capital markets
- Compliance
- EU, competition and distribution
- Industry focus: Energy
- Private equity: Fund formation
- Banking and finance: transactional work
- Capital markets: debt capital markets
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Employment
- Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences
- Industry focus: IT and internet
- Insolvency
- Real estate
- Dispute resolution: White-collar crime
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Project finance
- Tax