Dentons

Corporate, Healthcare and Life Sciences

Olivia Guéguen is a partner and head of the Corporate group in Dentons’ Paris office. She is also co-Head of Dentons Europe’s Private Equity and Venture Capital group.

Her practice focuses on mergers and acquisitions, and private equity transactions, primarily in the field of life sciences, technology, and business services.

Olivia advises international groups and innovative companies in France and abroad on acquisitions, divestitures, equity investments, joint ventures, and strategic alliances. She also regularly assists investment funds and management teams in the context of leveraged buyouts (LBOs).

Olivia has extensive experience of cross-border M&A transactions. As a lead partner, she regularly coordinates international teams on high-profile, multi-jurisdictional M&A transactions involving several Dentons offices.

Partner, Dentons, 2014-Present
Partner, Dechert, 2005-2014
Associate, Coudert Brothers, 2003-2005
Associate, Archibald Andersen - Andersen Legal, 1999-2003

English, French

Admitted to the Paris Bar in 2000
Jury member at the year-end students’ presentations (Double degree in Business Law with Paris 1 – Panthéon – Sorbonne), HEC Paris, France

University Panthéon-Assas Paris II, Master in Business and Tax Law, 1998
HEC Paris, Hautes Études Commerciales, 1997

Speaker, “Minority Investments: Anticipating the Challenges of Competition and Foreign Investment Control” Dentons, Paris, France, February 4, 2025
Panelist, “How to climb through the exit window”, Private Equity Summit, IPEM, Cannes, France, January 29, 2025
Speaker, "Is it really necessary to subscribe a W&I insurance in M&A transactions?” Dentons x Marsh, Paris, France, November 7, 2024
Speaker, “Carve-out transactions in the life sciences sector: key issues” Round-table discussion, Option Finance, November 2020