Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP

Corporate, M&A and Private Equity

Partner

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

French, English, German

Paris Bar

Master (DESS) in corporate and tax law from Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne in 2000LL.M in German law from the Munich University in 1999