BDGS Associés

Banking & Finance

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 carried out a number of high-profile financing transactions, including most recently the sale by Icade of its stake in Icade Santé and the portfolio of assets held by Icade Healthcare Europe to Primonial REIM; the acquisition of ‘New Suez’ by a consortium comprising Meridiam, Global Infrastructure Partners and Groupe CDC, formed from assets acquired from Veolia and Suez in the context of Veolia's takeover bid for Suez; the roll-out of the national fibre-optic network in France by Bouygues Telecom through joint ventures with Phoenix Tower International, Cellnex and Vauban Infrastructure Partners; Sagard's acquisition of a majority stake in ADIT; ADIT's acquisition of a controlling stake in Défense Conseil International from the French government and Sofema; the refinancing of HysetCo's debt, in particular for the deployment of hydrogen refuelling stations for taxi fleets; and the first project financing for WAAT, for the deployment of refuelling stations for electric vehicles in condominiums.

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).

French and English

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)