Mr Alexandre Duguay > Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP > Paris, France > Lawyer Profile
Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP Offices
2 RUE DE LA BAUME
75008 PARIS
France
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Mr Alexandre Duguay
Work Department
Corporate, M&A and Private Equity
Position
Partner
Career
Alexandre Duguay is a partner in the Corporate Department of Weil’s Paris office. His practice involves a wide range of domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions transactions, regarding both private and public companies. He has extensive experience on representing private equity sponsors in a full range of transactions (including leveraged buyouts, public-to-private transactions and recapitalizations). He has also developed an expertise in the area of business reorganizations, distressed M&A, debt restructurings, debtor and creditors’ rights, and financing transactions.
Representative M&A/Private Equity Experience:
- HLD on the sale of Elivie to Ardian
- Montefiore on the leveraged recap and high yield financing of Isabel Marant
- Apax Partners on the acquisition of Graitec
- Apax Partners on the acquisition of Destiny and OpenIP
- Apax Partners on the disposal of Melita to EQT
- Apax Partners on the acquisition of Expereo
- Tessi on the acquisition of ADM Value
- HLD on the acquisition of Rafaut and AEDS
- HLD on the acquisition of Kiloutou
- Marlink on the acquisitions of Telemar and OmniAccess
- Fives and the Sanchez family on the reorganisation of Fives’ share capital alongside CDPQ and PSP
- Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan on the buyout of OGF
- Montagu Private Equity and Astorg Partners in their sale of a majority stake in Sebia SA
- Oaktree on the sale of SGD Pharma to JIC Investment Co., Ltd. and the sale of Verescence (former perfumery division of SGD) to Stirling Square Capital Partners
Languages
French, English, German
Memberships
Paris Bar
Education
Master (DESS) in corporate and tax law from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2000
LL.M in German law from the Munich University in 1999
Lawyer Rankings
France > Private equity: LBO
The practice group at Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP routinely handles significant LBO transactions on behalf of private equity sponsors, industrial, financial and family-owned groups. The team’s expertise extends to M&A, restructuring and growth capital mandates. Practice head David Aknin
has significant experience of a range of corporate transactions that includes restructurings, private equity and M&A transactions, and joint venture. Additional key contacts for LBO work include Jean Beauchataud, Frédéric Cazals, Alexandre Duguay, Emmanuelle Henry, Guillaume Bonnard and Pierre-Alexandre Kahn. A recent mandate of note saw the team advise Ardian on the sale of Staci to bpostgroup.