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Mermoz Avocats Offices

Mermoz Avocats
45 RUE DE COURCELLES
75008 PARIS
France
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Mermoz Avocats > The Legal 500 Rankings

France > Private equity: LBO Tier 3

Practice head(s):

Thomas Hermetet; Gilles Roux; Tristan Segonds

Testimonials

‘Availability, clarity of explanations, good quality.’

Key clients

Amundi Private Equity Funds

Andera Acto

Andera Partners

Apax Partners (Now Named Seven2)

Banque Populaire|Cic, Credit Agricole Societe Generale

B&Capital

Bnp Paribas Développement

Bpi

Ciclad

Docoon

Eurazeo

Idico (Ex Omnes Capital)

Isai

Momentum Invest

New Alpha

Nci

Ouest Croissance

Pictet

Pinson Paysages

Seven2 (Ex Apax Partners)

Siparex

Unigrains

Work highlights

  • Advised Amundi on its investment in ADIT’s capital, enabling it to become one of the group’s main shareholders alongside Bpifrance, Parquest and Amundi.
  • Advised lender Banque Populaire du Nord in the LBO of Juliette Has a Gun (perfumes), led by Cathay Capital and Weinberg Capital Partners.
  • Advised Omnes Capital on its acquisition of a stake in Eclairion, the first containerised supercomputer hosting centre in Europe.

France > EU, competition and distribution Tier 4

France > Industry focus: Healthcare and life sciences Tier 4

France > Tax Tier 5

Practice head(s):

Philippe Rolland; Nicolas Privat; Laurent Ragot

Key clients

PAPETERIE ZUBER RIEDER

ANDERA ACTO

GROUPE BERTRAND

GROUPE PÉNÉLOPE (GROUP LFPI)

ANDERA PARTNERS

MOMENTUM INVEST

OMNES

NCI, RE-SOURCES CAPITAL

CICLAD

OUEST CROISSANCE, BPI FRANCE INVESTISSEMENT, CAPITEM PARTENAIRES, BFC CROISSANCE & INNOVATION, BDR INVEST

XOS LEARNING

UNIGRAINS

LONSDALE

SYLQ

VITRINEMEDIA

Work highlights

  • Advised Groupe Pénélope (Group LFPI) on the acquisition of FMG Sales and Marketing through the holding Ithaque Investissements.
  • Advised Amundi Private Equity Funds, UI Investissement and Société Générale Capital Partenaires on the LBO of the Cyllene group.
  • Assisted Andera-Acto with the LBO (sponsorless) of NG Travel Group.

France > Mergers and acquisitions Tier 6

Work highlights

Mermoz Avocats > Firm Profile

HPML and MERMOZ join forces and become MERMOZ Avocats.
Mermoz Avocats is the favoured partner of companies’ managers and shareholders, of business angels as well as French and international investment funds, in all main areas of business law in both advisory and litigation aspects.

The team, led by five partners and four counsels, provides to its clients expert advice to structure, realise and monitor their business development in France and internationally.

Mergers and acquisitions: Mermoz Avocatshas significant and highly specialized experience in mergers and acquisitions. The responsiveness and creativity of its team make it possible to offer support for all types of transactions, both on the buyer’s and the seller’s sides, in the context of joint venture agreements, group structuring operations, etc.

Private equity: Mermoz Avocats is one of the undisputed leaders of private equity in France. Its team’s expertise and experience give it a recognized legitimacy to carry-out the legal, labour and tax structuring related to all kinds of operations of this sector (such as LBO, MBO, OBO, etc), entry or exit of partners, management packages, fundraising, etc.

Corporate law: Mermoz Avocats provides a rigorous tailored legal support and follow-up to its clients (small businesses, SMEs and French or international groups)..

Mermoz Avocats provides its clients an access to a secure and personalised online platform in order to make their usual documents available anytime.

Tax: Mermoz Avocats’s tax team has a recognized expertise in the field of corporate taxation (private equity, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring etc) and personal taxation (income tax, transmission of assets, shareholding etc).

Our tax team advises French and international clients operating in a wide range of sectors, such as real estate, manufacturing, broadcasting, press etc.

Mermoz Avocats’ tax team provides both advisory and litigation services, relying on the combined experience of its partners and associates in dealing with tax authorities. Its knowledge in the field of taxation also leads Mermoz Avocats’s tax team to defend its clients in criminal courts.

Main Contacts

Department Name Email Telephone
Corporate-Private equity-M&A Thomas HERMETET thomas.hermetet@mermoz.law +33 (0) 1 40 98 20 45
Corporate-Private equity-M&A Nada SBAÏ nada.sbai@mermoz.law +33 (0) 1 40 98 20 45
Corporate-Private equity-M&A Aurélie BONSCH aurelie.bonsch@mermoz.law +33 (0) 1 40 98 20 45
Corporate-Private equity-M&A Gilles Roux gilles.roux@mermoz.law +33 (0) 1 40 98 20 45
Corporate-Private equity-M&A Tristan Segonds tristan.segonds@mermoz.law +33 (0) 1 40 98 20 45
Corporate-Private equity-M&A Arnaud Levasseur arnaud.levasseur@mermoz.law +33 (0) 1 40 98 20 45
Corporate-Private equity-M&A-Financing Martin Kyuchukov martin.kyuchukov@mermoz.law +33 (0) 1 40 98 20 45
Tax Philippe ROLLAND philippe.rolland@mermoz.law +33 (0) 1 40 98 20 45
Tax Nicolas PRIVAT nicolas.privat@mermoz.law +33 (0) 1 40 98 20 45
Tax Laurent ragot laurent.ragot@mermoz.law +33 (0) 1 40 98 20 45
Litigation - Restructuring-Insolvency Olivier Péchenard olivier.pechenard@mermoz.law +33 (0) 1 40 98 20 45
EU Competition Leyla Djavadi leyla.djavadi@mermoz.law +33 (0) 1 40 98 20 45
EU Competition Jean-Louis Fourgoux jean-louis.fourgoux@mermoz.law +33 (0) 1 40 98 20 45
Employment Catherine Nahmias catherine.nahmias@mermoz.law +33 (0) 1 40 98 20 45
IP/IT/Commercial agreements Régis Mahieu regis.mahieu@mermoz.law +33 (0) 1 40 98 20 45

Staff Figures

Partners : 15
Counsel : 4
Associates : 16

Languages

English
French
German
Arabic
Spanish
Bulgarian