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Nicolas Le Guillou

Work Department
Corporate/M&A
Position
Nicolas is a Partner in the Corporate/M&A practice of Linklaters Paris. He regularly advises financial sponsors, private equity houses, insurance companies and corporates on their M&A transactions, with a particular focus on energy and infrastructure sectors.
Career
Nicolas joined the firm in 2009 as an Associate, has been promoted Managing Associate in 2014, Counsel in 2019 and Partner in 2022.
Nicolas spent eight months on secondment at Ardian in 2012 and seven months at Linklaters in London (Private Equity practice) in 2016.
Languages
French, English
Education
Nicolas studied corporate law at the University of Paris-Nanterre and holds a postgraduate degree (DESS) in M&A from Paris-Saclay University and a Master in Tax, Corporate Law and Business Management from Paris Inseec business school.
Lawyer Rankings
France > Mergers and acquisitions
Linklaters ‘ all around corporate expertise spans public and private M&A as well as private equity deals. The firm assists a prominent client base of French and international companies including financial institutions undertaking large domestic and cross-border transactions, spanning various industry sectors such as the financial services, automotive, retail and infrastructure fields. The team is large and able to handle a high volume of work. It is co-headed by Bruno Derieux and Hubert Segain who joined in July 2024 from Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP.. Other key names in the team includes Pierre Tourres, Pierre Thomet, Alain Garnier , Nicolas Le Guillou, Florent Mazeron and Julien Bourmaud-Danto who was promoted to partner in 2024.
Lawyer Rankings
Top Tier Firm Rankings
- Banking and finance: transactional work
- Capital markets: debt capital markets
- EU, competition and distribution
- Industry focus: Energy
- Intellectual property: Patents
- Project finance
Firm Rankings
- Administrative and public law
- Data privacy and data protection
- Derivatives and structured finance
- Dispute resolution: Commercial litigation
- Dispute resolution: Stock market litigation
- Employment
- Insolvency
- Intellectual property: Trade marks and designs
- Private equity: LBO
- Real estate
- Tax
- Banking and finance: Bank regulatory
- Dispute resolution: International arbitration
- Mergers and acquisitions
- Private equity: Fund formation