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Yaëlle Cohen

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Work Department

Banking & Finance

Position

Partner advising investment funds, companies, private debt funds and financial institutions on complex bank or bond financing in the context of domestic and cross-border corporate transactions, LBOs and project financing. She also supports companies in difficulty and their shareholders with financial restructuring operations.

She has led a number of high-profile financing transactions, including recently the sale of Icade’s majority stake in Icade Santé and the asset portfolio held by Icade Healthcare Europe; the acquisition of New Suez, an asset acquired from Veolia and Suez by Caisse des Dépôts et Consignations in consortium with Meridiam, Global Infrastructure Partners and CNP Assurances; the deployment of the national fiber optic network in France by Bouygues Telecom through joint ventures with Phoenix Tower International, Cellnex and Vauban Infrastructure Partners; and a majority stake taken by Sagard in Adit (Agency for the dissemination of technological information) followed by the acquisition by the Adit group of DCI (Defense Conseil International).

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)