Mr Yannick Piette > Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP > Paris, France > Lawyer Profile
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Mr Yannick Piette
Work Department
Corporate
Position
Partner
Career
Yannick Piette is a corporate partner in the Paris office of Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP.
He specialises in all types of M&A and capital market transactions including public takeovers, takeover defenses, restructuring of listed companies, governance matters, IPO and equity offering. Practice as litigator in public takeovers. Major recent transactions include advising: Orange on its €1.3bn sale of its stake in Orange Concessions; Engie on its €3.4bn sale of its stake in Suez to Veolia; Total on its $8.8bn acquisition of Anadarko’s African asset; the French State on the privatization and IPO of Française des Jeux; Rallye on its €3.5bn restructuring; Terreis on its €1.7bn sale of real estate assets to Swiss Life.
Languages
French, English
Memberships
Paris Bar
Education
EDHEC
University of Lille (DEA Droit des Affaires)
Lawyer Rankings
France > Mergers and acquisitions
(Leading individuals)Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP is engaged by several listed companies to assist with transactions, including recently in relation to satellites and retail. The M&A practice handles a steady amount of public and private M&A work for French and international corporations and also regularly advises on corporate restructuring and governance issues. The practice is jointly headed by Claude Serra
and Yannick Piette. Agathe Soilleux and recently promoted partner Jean-Baptiste Cornic are other major contributors.