Youssef Djehane > BDGS Associés > Paris, France > Lawyer Profile
BDGS Associés Offices
51 RUE FRANCOIS 1ER
75008 PARIS
France
- Firm Profile
- Go to...
Youssef Djehane
Work Department
Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Law
Position
Partner focusing on matters concerning listed companies, including listed companies, including takeovers, capital restructurings, equity capital markets transactions, corporate governance matters and shareholder disputes.
Recent work includes advising: the supervisory board of Europcar Mobility Group on governance issues; Crédit Agricole Assurances (Predica) on the 1.5-billion-euro action plan adopted by Clariane to strengthen its financial structure with the support of Predica in its capacity as key shareholder, the financial restructuring of the Comexposium Group in its capacity as jointly-controlling shareholder; Diageo in respect of its joint venture with LVMH in Moët Hennessy and its delisting from Euronext Paris; and Qatar Investment Authority as reference shareholder of Lagardère.
Career
Before founding BDGS Associés in 2013, Youssef Djehane was a partner since 1994 at Gide Loyrette Nouel where he started his career in 1986. He was seconded to Allen & Overy, London, in 1990 and then to the World Bank in Washington in 1992.
Languages
French and English
Memberships
Regular speaker at IBA M&A conferences. Author of the IBA Takeover Guide France and of “Corporate Governance and Directors’ Duties in France” for Practical Law (Thomson Reuters).
Education
Paris Bar (1987)
Postgraduate diploma in Private Law from the University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne (1985)
Lawyer Rankings
France > Mergers and acquisitions
(Leading partners)With its large workforce, BDGS Associés
boasts one of the market’s deepest bench, from top notch senior advisers to upcoming talents, able to advise on all types of transactions including public M&A deals. The firm advises a prominent client base that includes many of France’s leading publicly listed and private companies on their largest and most strategic deals. The practice also stands out for its rare ability to advise on complex deals pertaining to the public sector such as reorganisation projects of France’s state’s owned entities. The practice is co-headed by senior market’s statesmen Marc Loy
, Antoine Bonnasse , Jean-Emmanuel Skovron and Youssef Djehane. Among the younger guard, Thomas Méli, Lucile Gaillard , François Baylion, Jérôme du Chazaud and David Andréani stand out. Senior associate Hannah Cobbett provides support.