Mr Emmanuel KAEPPELIN > Delsol Avocats > Lyon, France > Lawyer Profile

Delsol Avocats
11 QUAI ANDRÉ LASSAGNE
69001 LYON
France

Work Department

Mergers & Acquisitions - Corporate law

Position

Emmanuel KAEPPELIN is co-head of the “Mergers & Acquisitions – Corporate law”  Department.

Alongside standard services in corporate law (repeat advisory work and company management), he has developed more specific expertise in the following areas:

– company transfers and acquisition audits (acquisitions on behalf of French or international groups)

– equity financing and company restructuring (LBOs, MBOs, fundraising, mergers, demergers, partial asset transfers, agreements between partners, etc.)

– advisory work to foreign groups in France (incorporation, tax structure, joint ventures, etc.)

– drafting of commercial contracts (distribution, sales agents, subcontracting, manufacturing contracts, T&Cs, financing contracts, franchises, IT contracts, etc.)

– financing infrastructures (hotel infrastructures, solar power plants, industries, etc.)

– business concentrations (notification of acquisitions to the French or European competition authorities)

He has developed specific expertise in the manufacturing, health, new energies (wind, solar, hydroelectricity, etc.), real estate (structure of property transactions) and leisure sectors (hotel and tour operator management).

Career

He began his career in the Corporate Finance – Mergers & Acquisitions Department of the law firm REED SMITH in PHILADELPHIA in 1999.

He then practiced in Lyon as an associate lawyer in various law firms before joining the Lyon office of DELSOL Avocats, where he was promoted to of counsel.

For over three years, he was the Secretary-General and Legal Director of a Danish leisure group, where he managed financial affairs, business development and property matters.

Languages

French, English

Memberships

Emmanuel KAEPPELIN is a member of the DELSOL Avocats Board and the TRANS-EUROPEAN LAW FIRMS ALLIANCE (TELFA).

Education

Emmanuel KAEPPELIN graduated from Jean MOULIN III University. He has a DESS postgraduate qualification in Business Law and Taxation and a DJCE postgraduate qualification in Business Law ; he also has a specialist qualification in Corporate Law.

Lawyer Rankings

France > The regions

Well-established in the Rhône-Alpes region, Delsol Avocats offers a wide range of capabilities with national and international reach. The group has a broad spectrum of expertise from M&A to intellectual property. Lyon-based practitioner Emmanuel Kaeppelin, steers the group and is particularly knowledgeable of company transfers, acquisition audits and equity financing. Séverine Bravard specialises in M&A, company restructurings and financing law, while Delphine Bretagnolle focuses on collective insolvency proceedings, collective bargaining and risk audits. Brice Briel specialises in employment and social welfare and Delphine Bretagnolle has experience in legal and tax structures with regards to non-profits and community orientated structures.