McDermott Will & Schulte advises across the full spectrum of investment funds work, from the establishment of French and international alternative investment vehicles including FPCI, FIPS, and SLP structures, to complex secondary market transactions. The team has deep sector expertise in life sciences, pharmaceuticals and healthcare, energy transition, technology, environmental and sustainable private equity investments. Practice head Guillaume Panuel advises both sponsors and institutional investors, while specialising in fund formation, secondary transactions and regulatory matters.
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Testimonials
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- ‘A highly technical team that understands our needs and pain points during negotiations.’
- ‘Responsiveness, knowledge of market practices, advocacy for the client's interests, good assessment of negotiating power.’
- ‘Guillaume Panuel has knowledge of market practices, advocates for his client's interests and brings interpersonal skills.'
- ‘Acute business sense, lot of experience with multiples counterparties, that helped us save a lot of time by replicating legal output already negotiated with the same counterparty in another transaction 12 months ago.’
Key clients
- Sagard Holdings
- Quadrille Capital
- KB Asset Management
- Florestan
- FDJ United
- Flandrin Capital
- Amundi Private Equity Funds
- Abenex Capital
- CA Indosuez Wealth (Asset Management)
- Cedrus & Partners
- EMZ Partners
- Eurazeo Global Investor
Work highlights
Advised Sagard, a global alternative asset manager with operations spanning multiple continents, on the conclusion of a definitive agreement to acquire a significant strategic stake in BEX Capital, a specialist secondary market investment firm.
Advised the investment management firm Quadrille Capital on the structuring of its latest investment vehicle, Quadrille Secondary III.
Advised multi-management platform Pams on the structuring of its new co-investment fund, Pams Co-invest Opportunités II.
Lawyers
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Practice head
Guillaume Panuel
Other key lawyers
Tatyana Lozé