Praised for its ‘extensive expertise in structuring LBO transactions’, the team at Mayer Brown has earned a strong reputation for handling the tax aspects of private equity transactions and fund structuring mandates. Leadership is shared between the ’ingenious and excellent’ Laurent Borey and the ‘committed’ Benjamin Homo. Borey routinely assists private equity sponsors with fund structuring and transactional mandates; Homo, for his part, specialises in tax due diligence and structuring, financing matters and management incentives. Christopher Lalloz has focused his practice on tax audits and related litigation.
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Testimonials
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- ‘Laurent Borey is ingenious and excellent. He masters and dominates his field.’
- ‘Mastery of memo structure aspects and very high responsiveness.’
- ‘Mayer Brown's tax team has extensive expertise in structuring LBO transactions. Composed of several partners, it allows them to handle a large number of cases with the same high level of service, and works for numerous clients, giving them a broad perspective on market trends.’
- ‘Elodie Deschamps particularly stands out for her ability to handle cases across the entire private equity spectrum: from small caps to large caps, which is quite rare in a market where lawyers are generally specialised in either small/mid or mid/large caps. This is a real strength.’
- ‘Aside from bringing deep technical expertise, the key reasons this team was so successful was first in working with us to clearly explain the type of data needed to support our positions, so we could search and provide very specific data. Second, was an overall strategic approach that clearly yielded success.’
- ‘Benjamin Homo and Paul de Préval stand out in terms of both availability, quality of advice / expertise.’
- ‘An extremely professional, efficient and pragmatic team.’
- ‘Benjamin Homo is remarkable, extremely competent, committed and very responsive.’
Key clients
- Altice
- Ayming
- Blackstone Europe
- Charterhouse Capital Partners
- CVC Capital Partners
- Diot-Siaci
- European Camping Group
- European Digital Group
- Eviosys
- Funecap Group
- ICG
- Keensight Capital
- LBO France
- Mediawan
- Montefiore Investment
- Oaktree Capital Management
- Qualium Investissement
- Redslim
- Sagard
- SERB Pharmaceuticals
Work highlights
Advised the Altice group on tax and structuring aspects of the transaction of the negotiation and conclusion of a restructuring framework agreement of its financial debt.
Advised European Camping Group (ECG) and its management team on the reorganisation of the group’s capital following PAI Partners’ agreement to sell a significant minority stake to a wholly owned subsidiary of the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority (ADIA).
Advised investment fund ICG on the structuring of the acquisition, alongside Groupe Zouari, via a joint investment vehicle Invest Group Zouari (IGZ), of Lion Capital's entire stake.
Lawyers
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Leading partners: Private equity tax
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Leading partners: Transactional/corporate tax
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Practice head
Laurent Borey; Benjamin Homo
Other key lawyers
Christopher Lalloz; Paul de Préval; Elodie Deschamps