E Raman Bet-Mansour > Debevoise & Plimpton LLP > London, England > Lawyer Profile

Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
65 GRESHAM STREET
LONDON
EC2V 7NQ
England
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Work Department

Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities and Corporate Governance Groups

Position

​E. Raman Bet-Mansour is a corporate partner in the firm’s London and Paris offices and a member of the firm’s Private Equity, Mergers & Acquisitions, Securities and Corporate Governance Groups. He also has extensive experience with international joint ventures and debt financings.

Career

Since joining Debevoise in 1989, Mr. Bet-Mansour has been resident in the firm’s New York, Paris and London offices. Since July 2011, he has divided his time between the London and Paris offices.

Mr. Bet-Mansour has published numerous articles and is a frequent public speaker at various conferences.

Languages

French, Farsi (Persian) and Aramaic.

Memberships

Supervisory board of the Aspen Institute France.

Education

Mr. Bet-Mansour received his B.A. from The Johns Hopkins University in 1985, his M.A. in International Affairs from the School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) of The Johns Hopkins University in 1986, and his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1989.

Lawyer Rankings

London > Corporate and commercial > Private equity: transactions – high-value deals (£500m+)

Sitting within the firm’s wider European platform, Debevoise & Plimpton LLP‘s London team handles multijurisdictional M&A for a range of financial sponsors and investors, with a particular focus on emerging markets. Katherine Ashton, who leads the private fund transactions group, is well-equipped to advise on M&A, secondaries, fund restructurings and recapitalisations. The US-qualified (New York) E Raman Bet-Mansour co-leads the team, supporting private equity groups and their portfolio companies across a range of domestic and cross-border transactions – particularly those involving European markets. Co-head Dominic Blaxill oversees public and private M&A, capital raises, and corporate advisory instructions, while co-head Geoffrey Burgess brings financing and venture capital capabilities to the fore on a series of mandates.