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25 RUE DE MARIGNAN
75008 PARIS
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Alain Garnier
Work Department
Corporate/M&A
Position
Alain specialises in private M&A and private equity domestically and internationally.
He has market leading practice in the banking and insurance industry, where he advises on M&A, group restructuring, and, jointly with the firm financial regulation and litigation teams, industry specific issues, including regulatory investigations.
Alain is the lead relationship partner for a number of the firm’s French clients in the financial sector.
Career
Alain joined Linklaters in 1988, and he has been a partner since 1997. He co-headed the Paris office from 2005 to 2009 and was a member of the firm’s Partnership Board from 2013 to 2017.
He is the author of various legal publications in the area of corporate law.
Languages
French, English
Education
Alain is a member of the Paris and New York bars. He studied law in Lyon (DJCE in French business law), Dijon (DESS of international business law) and New York University (Master of Comparative Jurisprudence).
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