BDGS Associés

Mergers & Acquisitions and Corporate Law

Partner specialising in mergers and acquisitions, in particular corporate restructurings and spin-offs of both listed and unlisted entities as well as joint ventures. She has notably undertaken restructurings of groups in the public sector and of groups with a specific legal status. She also advises founding shareholders in family-owned business groups.

She has recently advised Sopra Steria and Sopra GMT on a global transaction consisting in the sale of Sopra Banking Software to Axway and the sale by Sopra Steria to Sopra GMT of a stake in Axway; one of the founding shareholders of SPHERE on the sale of a majority stake to Hivest Capital Partners; SNCF on its recapitalisation via a €4 billion share capital increase and on the reorganisation of Fret SNCF and Rail Logistics Europe following the opening by the European Commission in January 2023 of formal proceedings regarding French support measures for Fret SNCF; La Banque Postale on its acquisition of a 58% stake in CNP Assurances and its public offer and squeeze out of the remaining shares of CNP Assurances; Financière LOV on the regulatory aspects of the combination of its subsidiary FL Entertainment with Pegasus Entrepreneurial Acquisition Company Europe B.V; the French State (Agence des Participations de l’État and Direction Générale du Trésor) on the reorganisation of Bpifrance; and Aéroports de Paris on the restructuring of its share capital and the regulatory consequences of its privatisation.

Before joining BDGS Associés in 2013, Lucile Gaillard was an associate at Gide Loyrette Nouel where she started her career in 2005. She became partner at BDGS Associés in 2016.

French and English

Member of the Institut Français des Administrateurs (IFA), the French institute of company directors.

Paris Bar (2006) Postgraduate diploma in general Private Law from the University of Paris II Panthéon-Assas (2003) Master’s degree in Business and Tax Law (2002)