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Corporate / Mergers & Acquisitions
Mergers, acquisitions and restructuring form an essential part of a company's national and international growth strategy. These transactions, however, which require expertise in a number of business, tax and employment law disciplines,are becoming increasingly complex and have major business and financial implications.In this environment, we aim to:
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Evaluate the real business implications of the transactions we advise on
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Provide our clients with effective and constructive assistance throughout the structuring and negotiation of transactions
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Ensure that deals are implemented tightly enough to avoid any re-opening of negotiations at the contract drafting stage
Our Practice Areas
We handle all aspects of mergers & acquisitions and restructurings for both listed and unlisted companies:
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Documentation and contract drafting
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Support in negotiations
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Acquisitions, divestments, joint ventures
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Shareholders' agreements
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Restructurings (mergers, asset transfers, etc.) on a French and international level
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Arranging and structuring finance (equity, MBOs, MBIs)
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Investment Capital
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Legal audits
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Data room and due diligence
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IPOs
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Stock exchange law
Our Approach
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A team fully dedicated to transactional and restructuring operations, building a close-by relationship with our clients
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Our strength lies in our ability to put together multi-disciplinary teams, which draw in our best specialists from each discipline concerned: taxation, employment law, competition law, European law, intellectual property law, property law, etc.
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Our national practice is reinforced by the strong local practices of the other CMS alliance member firms, in particular through regular sharing of information and experience..
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We can also draw on this network, where appropriate, to provide our clients with solutions that go beyond the purely French context.
Our Clients
French and foreign listed and unlisted companies in all business sectors
| Recognized excellence
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CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre
Nomination for Legal Awards (Décideurs Stratégie Finance Droit):
2004: Nomination of CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre's corporate team for private equity
2006: Nomination of CMS Bureau Francis Lefebvre's corporate team for M&A
Quote from Pritchard Legal 500 2005:
"The French member of the CMS Alliance is building a good reputation
in areas beyond its traditional tax expertise and its rapidly growing
private equity department truly impressed our interviewers".
Quote from Chambers Global 2007, about the Private Equity department:
" they really understand how funds operate and defend their clients' interests exceptionally well."
Capital Finance, January 29th, 2007
"It was a tough challenge. Nevertheless, ten years later, CMS BFL's corporate department has entered the French magic circle."
Financial Times (London), December 2007:
Corporate
team ranked by the Financial Times as one of the leading five M&A
teams in France in 2007 alongside Bredin Prat and three other
Anglo-Saxon firms.
MergerMarket, December 2007:
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firm was ranked third for the quantity of operations handled in France
and tenth with regard to the value of the companies on behalf of which
the operations were handled.
Alliance CMS
CMS is sixth in Mergermarket's ranking for deal transactions advised in Europe in the first six months of 2006.
The magazine JUVE named CMS Hasche Sigle as "Law Firm of the Year" in 2006 for M&A.
The 2006 October edition of the magazine Private Equity Internationalnamed Duncan Weston, the partner responsible for Central Europe at CMS
Cameron McKenna, among the 30 most influential lawyers for private
equity.
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