Comparative Guide
Lending & Secured Finance
France
Alexandre Roth & Lorraine Viard
Legal 500 Editorial commentary
Accolades
Client satisfaction: Lawyer & team quality
Client satisfaction: NPS ®
Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- ‘Karine Montagut has the traits a client wishes to see in an adviser, a combination of being detail oriented and organised, without losing track of the bigger picture and prioritising in line with overall objectives.’
- ‘Bénédicte Denis: highly valuable combined expertise in M&A and insurance. Excellent negotiation skills and outstanding interpersonal skills. Jean-Claude Rivalland: excellent negotiation skills and strong pragmatism. Marie-Adélaïde de Fleurieu: excellent knowledge of liability guarantees and strong teaching skills.’
- ‘A close-knit, multidisciplinary M&A team with extensive experience, particularly in joint ventures. Extreme transparency and regular reporting.’
- ‘Jean-Claude Rivalland: an excellent negotiator, he knows how to defend his clients while also being able to propose compromises. His extensive experience allows him to approach deals calmly, even during complex stages.'
- ‘Responsive and thoughtful guidance’.
- ‘Excellent structuring and negotiation skills, extensive knowledge of liability guarantee mechanisms, teaching skills, and pragmatism. Highly valued and very effective combination of M&A and insurance expertise within the same team.'
Key clients
- Brookfield
- CFM Indosuez
- Corepile
- Crédit Mutuel Arkéa
- Edge Energy/ Endeavour
- Egis
- Integrity360
- Loop Industries
- Mycronic
- Nikko Asset Management
- PIB Group
- Ramsay Générale de Santé
Work highlights
Advising Société Générale on the sale of its private banking activity in the United Kingdom and the Channel Islands, operated by its subsidiary SG Kleinwort Hambros, to UBP (Union Bancaire Privée).
Advising PIB Group on its acquisition of BEA group, a prominent French medical malpractice brokerage insurance business.
Advising Mycronic AB on the acquisition of Hprobe, a French leading provider of turnkey semiconductor Automatic Test Equipment (ATE) for magnetic devices.
Practice head
Bénédicte Denis
Other key lawyers
Karine Montagut; Jean-Claude Rivalland; Pierre François