Bredin Prat‘s private equity practice is well equipped to advise on the full range of private equity mandates, including financing and tax structuring, and is active on transactions spanning the financial services, technology and energy sectors. The practice is regularly instructed by both French and international investment funds, as well as by start-ups and large corporates. Olivier Assant has extensive experience in large and high-profile domestic and cross-border transactions, with particular expertise in public M&A. Florence Haas is also recommended.
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Testimonials
Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.
- ‘Excellent lawyers who are focused on developing the SME business’
- ‘We work regularly with Adrien Simon, who is very competent.’
- ‘Responsiveness, rigour, market knowledge.’
- ‘A highly dedicated and responsive team that offers solutions and explores new avenues, with excellent knowledge and understanding of the client's challenges; an excellent business partner.’
Key clients
- Coalition Capital / Stade Malherbe Caen
- Consortium: Permira, CD&R, Everest / Exclusive Networks
- KKR / Anjac
- Eurazeo PME / 2 Ride Holding
- HIG Capital / Giant Group (Quick)
- Five Arrow Principal Investments (FAPI) / Softway
- Téthys Invest / Septeo
- Téthys Invest / Ceva Santé Animale
- Lebronze Alloys/Dumont Family / Astorg
- General Atlantic / Esker
- KKR/IQGeo / Deepomatic
- Nexans / Lynxeo
Work highlights
Advising Eurazeo, a reference shareholder of I-TRACING, which it controls jointly with Oakley Capital, in connection with a strategic partnership between I-TRACING, a French managed cybersecurity services pure-player, and Bridewell, the UK cybersecurity services firm specialising notably in critical national infrastructure organisations in the UK.
Advised the iliad Group, a French group specialised in the telecoms sector, to form a strategic partnership with InfraVia, an independent private equity firm in Europe which focuses on infrastructure assets, aimed at developing a major European hyperscale data centre platform.
Advised General Atlantic on the take-private of Esker, a provider of cloud-based Source-to-Pay and Order-to-Cash management solutions, by Bridgepoint, in association with General Atlantic and the management shareholders.
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Other key lawyers
Olivier Assant; Barthélémy Courteault; Patrick Dziewolski; Clémence Fallet; Florence Haas; Benjamin Kanovitch; Sébastien Prat; Adrien Simon; Jean-Benoît Demaret; Christine Lenis