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Yaëlle Cohen

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Work Department

Banking & Finance

Position

Partner advising investment funds, corporates, private debt funds and financial institutions on complex financing in the context of domestic and cross-border corporate, LBOs and project financing transactions. She also accompanies distressed companies and their shareholders in restructuring transactions involving recapitalisations and debt conversions.

She has led a number of high-profile finance transactions, including recently the sale of Icade’s majority stake in Icade Santé and of the asset portfolio owned by Icade Healthcare Europe; the acquisition of New Suez, assets acquired from Veolia and Suez in the context of Veolia’s offer for Suez, by Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations in consortium with Meridiam; Global Infrastructure Partners and CNP Assurances and the deployment of the nationwide fibre network in France by Bouygues Telecom through joint ventures with Phoenix Tower International, Cellnex, and Vauban Infrastructure Partners; and Sagard on its acquisition of a majority stake in l’Adit (Agence pour la diffusion de l’information technologique).

Career

Yaëlle joined BDGS Associés as partner in 2021. She previously worked at Shearman & Sterling LLP (2018-2021), Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP (2013-2018) and Herbert Smith Freehills Paris LLP (2011-2012).

Languages

French and English

Education

Paris Bar (2011)

LL.M. in Corporate and Commercial Law from Bond University, Australia (2010)

Master’s Degree in Banking and Finance Law, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2008)

Master’s Degree in International Commercial Law, Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (2006)